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Copywriter of the week : Robert Phillips

Robert Huddlestone Phillips draws on 20 years experience as a writer in advertising and brand building. Having set out with Agencies in London, Dubai, and Amsterdam, he's learned on the job from the very best. He is currently completing projects…
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Copywriter of the week : Paul Falla

The Naked Copywriter “Today I received one of the most challenging copywriting assignments in my 30-year career. To write 500 words about something I know everything about. Intimately. Every single damned detail. All the “product” benefits.…
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Copywriter of the week : Shelley Travers

When I was growing up all I wanted to do was work in media, but everyone told me that it wasn’t likely to happen in Adelaide, and so while I was working as a High School English teacher, I booked a one-way ticket to London on impulse. Within…
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Copywriter of the week : Fraser Bailey

An alternative look at a career in advertising By Collective copywriter Fraser Bailey This is not another boring story of which clients I worked on while working for such and such an agency. Instead, it’s a more personal and football-related…
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Copywriter of the week : Stephanie Wollenberg

I’ve spent close to a decade creating concepts, inventive taglines, refreshing re-brand ideas–you name it–for Nike, Deliveroo, American Express, Philips and Booking.com. Helping brands “speak” is my thing. That’s why since I started…
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Has Digital Marketing Killed Off Branding & Creativity?

How has digital marketing affected branding? Q&A with Chris Bullick, MD of The Pull Agency. Bill Gates – somewhat belatedly – said ‘The Internet changes everything’. In reality, Microsoft was late to the party but Gates nailed…
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Insults, Book Titles and Headlines That (Hilariously) Beggar Belief

Words are powerful. They can carry big and serious ideas, communicated by icons such as Martin Luther King Jr, Malala Yousafzai or Winston Churchill. But they can also carry a healthy dose of well-considered silliness. Think Amy Schumer,…
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How to Force Yourself to Write

I think it was Mark Twain who is supposed to have said "Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." This might seem a flippant comment at first glance. When you think it through though, it makes a lot more sense. If…
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3 Tips to Increase Your Email Marketing Open & Click Through Rates

No one would deny that it’s more challenging than ever to get your recipients to even notice your emails - far less open, read, and click on the links you so carefully embedded in them. Competition for your prospect’s attention has never…

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