Hair of the dog
“Never work with animals” the old saying goes. Though sometimes you don’t get a choice. Especially when a beagle leaps onto a chair, admittedly on the promise of a delicious scooby snack dangled suggestively behind the camera lens. So, spot the dog in this collection of marketing photos I shot for premium barber shop and purveyor of gentlemen’s hairdressing Barber & Mack in Harrogate. The brief Mike Mackinnon, owner of Barber & Mack in Harrogate, had little in the way of photography to use as...
Read MoreHow a blog helps your charity
It’s time to turn the spotlight on one of my charity clients: Orb Community Arts in Knaresborough. I spend a few hours on-site per week, copywriting interviews, writing about upcoming events and making exciting announcements to the Orb community from their creative musicians and artists then putting it all together on the Orb Community Arts blog. So it’s time to share some of the benefits that blog copwriting support can offer to a charity after only a couple of months. Interview with Leon from Orb Community Arts The Orb Community Arts blog has been up for almost two months now...
Read MoreGraduate Entrepreneurship case study
As a dedicated follower of the blog, you’ll know that I’ve just been back to school, at the Entrepreneur’s Boot Camp: to get a tight grip on the practicalities of things like tax, law and finance. I came away with a suitcase full of new knowledge, buckets of inspiration and a coach-load of new friends I’ve made along the way. As a follow-up, the Graduate Entrepreneurship Project chose a few case studies from amongst the attendees at the event and my business was selected as one of them. You can read the full article on the Graduate Entrepreneurship Project web site. Oh...
Read MoreOpen Country blog goes live
I’m really pleased to announce the launch of Open Country’s new blog which I planned, set up and am now in the process of populating with exciting stories and fresh content using copywriting and photography. Open Country are a charity based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, who have a really clear and simple mission: to help people with disabilities to access the countryside. Open Country have seen other charities taking advantage of social media web sites like Facebook and Twitter and wanted a piece of the action to raise awareness of their cause. The strategy I’ve put in...
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