by Gill Booles | Sep 10, 2010 | Articles, Digital, Editing, Marketing, Print, Proofreading, Website
Welcome to the Words Are Everywhere newsletter. *************** STARTING THE NEW YEAR IN SEPTEMBER I was the kind of child who was pleased to see the ‘back to school’ adverts. I like September because of the promise of a new start. Beginning a new project and looking...
by Gill Booles | Jul 12, 2010 | Articles, Communication, Digital, Editing, Freelancing, Marketing, Print, Proofreading, Website
Welcome to the Words Are Everywhere newsletter. *************** SUN, SEA AND SPARE CAPACITY Summers can be tough. With so many clients, colleagues and suppliers on holiday, projects still have to go ahead. Schedules slip and clients return demanding to know why the...
by Gill Booles | Feb 12, 2010 | Articles, Communication, Digital, Print
We’ve all been there. The first time it’s new and exciting, but before long it’s routine, pedestrian and you find yourself looking longingly elsewhere for distraction. It’s the same for everyone who has ever set up a newsletter, ezine or blog. It starts as a novelty,...
by Gill Booles | Oct 9, 2009 | Digital, Print, Website
Il y a longtemps…No I haven’t a clue what it means either but if you used it in a French exam answer you got an extra mark. It was one of several phrases that I’d cram into the first paragraph, irrespective of topic, in order to be awarded maximum marks. The aim was...
by Gill Booles | Aug 17, 2009 | Editing, Print
Someone once told me I was suggestible. And I believed them. A couple of Christmases ago a friend was commissioned to write a New Years resolution piece for a national paper. She was to write about her attempt to give up smoking. Come 1 January she would be giving up...
by Gill Booles | Aug 11, 2009 | Design, Digital, Print
I decided I needed business cards. Need is perhaps the wrong word. I wanted business cards. In this age of electronic communication, where emails can have branding and contact details in the signature, you don’t need business cards. Or so I’m told. Usually by the same...
