Smile

by | Jul 31, 2019 | 0 comments

Ever heard of Amazon Smile? No, I hadn’t until recently. Buy things at smile.amazon.co.uk instead of just amazon.co.uk and Amazon donates part of the purchase price to your favourite charity, as long as it’s registered with the Charity Commission of either...

DILLIGAF

by | Jul 30, 2019 | 0 comments

“A new pingback is waiting for your approval” – the message I got in two emails and when I logged in to the backend of this site. A new pingback. What’s a pingback? I’d always put off Googling the word every time it’d come up in the...

Bonkers

by | Jul 29, 2019 | 0 comments

I was recently prepping one of the Pazzardous Material emails that I send out on a Thursday and wrote “pp.com” a couple of times. I’d better just check, I thought, that pp.com doesn’t actually exist and lead to some dodgy site involving goats,...

Take A Chance On Me

by | Jul 28, 2019 | 0 comments

We all need help from time to time, especially when we’re starting out in a career. And we all get at least one big chance, sooner or later – we just have to be aware enough to recognise it and brave enough to take it. The big chance can take a while to...

Joy – Kokiri Remix

by | Jul 27, 2019 | 0 comments

Starting out as a freelance copywriter, should you specialise in a particular subject or be a generalist, a jack of all trades? You might identify where your talent as a writer or editor lies by doing a SWOT analysis. Also, bear in mind that there are lots of...