Category: Working with a writer

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What to expect from a first draft of copy

Published 12th May 2023
A while ago, I wrote a piece on the process of working with a copywriter. It was designed to remove the fear of the unknown if you’d never worked with...
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Content outsourcing from a freelance writer’s perspective

Published 15th February 2022
I recently came across Semrush Marketplace’s State of Content Ops & Outsourcing report. It tells us who outsources content (and who doesn’t). Why people outsource (and why they don’t). Who...
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Price-per-project or price-per-hour?

Published 21st August 2020
I read an article on Entrepreneur Europe recently that gave tips for businesses hiring freelance workers for the first time. The article gave plenty of sound advice, but I was...
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How can a copywriter understand my business enough to write about it?

Published 27th May 2020
There are lots of reasons not to use a copywriter to help you write better marketing materials. Some of the reasons are valid. Some of them aren’t. One of the...
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How to overcome the black hole of content in your business

Published 17th March 2020
This is the introduction to an article I first published on Medium. I’ve been a freelance copywriter for over 15 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of businesses in that time. But...
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The concept of conversion copywriting

Published 12th November 2019
Every copywriter has at least one hilarious (ahem) anecdote about the time someone they were speaking to confused copyright and copywriting. These usually revolve around someone delightedly asking for help...
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How do I give feedback to my copywriter?

Published 4th November 2019
Obviously, the best kind of feedback a copywriter can get runs something along the lines of ‘This is great, it’s spot on, it delivers to the brief and more. Thank...
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Why is copywriting so expensive?

Published 21st October 2019
Have you ever had a quote from a copywriter and said: “How much?!” After all, copy is just words, isn’t it? And everyone can write. Well, yes. But also no....
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What does a copywriter do?

Published 7th January 2019
This is a page from the results of the ProCopywriters Survey 2018. It shows a selection of copywriters’ answers to the question ‘What is copywriting?’. These are great summaries of...
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Why do people choose my competitors over me?

Published 1st October 2018
What do you do when you win a new contract? What do you do when you don’t win a new contract? I think the most likely answers are celebrate and...

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