Meg from the Marketing Café was in touch a couple of weeks ago with a great piece of work. They needed a 4-page article on New York for their client’s lifestyle magazine. The focus was to pull out attractions found off the beaten track, highlighting life as a New Yorker as opposed to the well trodden tourist trail. The magazine goes to print at the end of the month and already they’ve given it the thumbs up. It was a hugely enjoyable project and made me pine for the city that never sleeps.

Recently I met Revolver PR’s new Head of Social Communications and online aficionado Annie Boyd for a coffee in Glasgow. I’d been an admirer of her twitter persona @Anniebeee since joining the social media network a year or so ago and we’d always promised to meet up and share stories. Read the rest of this entry »

For a while the majority of the projects I’ve worked on have been based on the web. This meant I became familiar with Content Management Systems, Service Level Agreements and writing copy with SEO in mind. There is an immediacy about publishing web content that I feel I may have taken for granted. Read the rest of this entry »

In early April client Fly.com contracted Purplefeather to write destination content as part of the companies ongoing marketing strategy. I worked together with a team of freelancers to fulfil the brief. Read the rest of this entry »

As I close one door a new exciting one opens up with the rather fantastic team at PoLR. Over the next few weeks I will be providing web content for their latest client. Having met Designer Lynne Foster first on Twitter then at this year’s Twestival I feel I should tip the cap in social media’s direction. My thanks go to both her and Ryan Carlton for this opportunity.

Earlier this week I was contacted by Ian Palmer, Director of The Marketing Café. Our paths first crossed when I applied to work for his company a year ago, we met again when the company moved to Spiersbridge Business Park in March- just as I was leaving Mine Digital.

He vowed to stay in touch should any copywriting work arise and remained true to his word. I shall be working in-house with the team for a couple of weeks from Monday the 14th. I am looking forward to meeting Account Manager Meg this Friday to go over the details.

Today I secured work with a new client, Allied Vehicles Ltd. From next week I will be writing content for their various brands including Allied Mobility, Allied Leasing & Cabs Direct. Press releases, product reviews as well as customer interviews will be published in their quarterly magazines as well as online. My thanks go to Victoria McGourlay for contacting me about this exciting opportunity. I look forward to getting started.

For the last 6 weeks I have been writing for 3 different clients based in the travel industry. Read the rest of this entry »

PSP Publishing have now released the Spring/ Summer edition of the SYHA magazine. Having written the article back in October this has been my longest wait for an item to go to print- and I was delighted when my copy came through the post.
I enjoyed getting involved and was really impressed by the accompanying images. I’d like to thank the Editor Amy Wellens for the opportunity. The Set Jetters Guide to Scotland can be found on page 35, an online issue is available here.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been given the opportunity {and developed the nerve} to go freelance full time. This marks a new rather grown-up phase in my career and as a result I’m now in charge of numbers, receipts and other complicated things like that. Read the rest of this entry »