Everyone plays with words – children especially. Every pun, joke, rhyme, tall story, tongue-twister, or snippet of gibberish is a game with words. No equipment needed – although pencil and paper often helps. So here’s a collection of our dozen best family word...
All copywriters have a box of go-to tools for speeding up the job: Where can I find a pithy quote? What’s the reading age of my copy? Is this hasty rewrite good enough to count as fresh content? So here’s my list of copywriting resources. It’s an...
Copywriting gives you complete freedom to say whatever you think your audience would love to hear. No other tool in your marketing toolbox is as quick, easy, and versatile. But even marketing people can be constrained by what they think the medium demands. My recent...
A guest post by Nigel Graber, a freelance copywriter in Manchester We copywriters always preach about writing in our audience’s language. We’re also hard-wired to bin the jargon. So we assume that words and phrases such as granularity, metrics, negative feedback loop,...
You know your food tastes great, but how do you tell your customers? The few adjectives you have to play with – sweet, bitter, sour, etc – are so uninspiring, you’ll find yourself relying on comparisons such as lemony, cheesy, earthy, malty. Which is fine so...