Okay, that was 11, but did that entice you to read on? Whether it’s a headline (we wrote about that here), an email subject or the first sentence of your telephone pitch, getting your point across quickly and succinctly is extremely important. Think about the times you’re watching the news or listening to the bulletin [...]
“Five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” David Ogilvy, known as the Father of Advertising Think about that quote for a second. Why would you let your content-writing efforts go to waste if you [...]
To put it simply, yes and no. PR and Journalism are like two sides of the same coin and it’s easy to see why the two professions are sometimes thought to be the same thing. Nowadays, a lot of Journalism graduates edge towards PR as the general foundations for both jobs are similar: they both [...]
PR and marketing: you hear them in the same sentence so often, it’s easy to think of them as one and the same thing. And you’d be surprised how many people do confuse the two or aren’t really sure what comes under each umbrella. In reality, they are significantly different and require very specific skills, [...]
No really. I mean… do you even know? You’d be amazed how many people sit down to write a press release, a blog or some form of editorial without even considering the most important part of the whole piece… the audience. For instance, writing this blog, I know it’s most likely to be read by [...]
