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What our customers say

We know we can do a great job for you – but don't take our word for it. Here's what our customers are saying. "Perfect press releases. Great work Lesley, you're a star!" Direct Travel Insurance

LesleyOctober 1, 2012

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How to win business awards

Congratulations are due to three of our clients who've been the latest to win prestigious business awards with our help.

LesleySeptember 17, 2012

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We're picking up rumours of the imminent demise of the South East Design Forum (previously the South Coast Design Forum). It would be a real shame if this inspiring creative group fell victim to a merciless business climate

LesleySeptember 4, 2012

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Factual Writers rule ok

I'd like to spread the word about a dynamic new group of writers operating around the south coast (though clearly available to work across the country), called Factual Writers. http://factualwriters.com/

LesleyAugust 14, 2012

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Out of the coal hole

We've just emerged from a frustrating period of purda imposed by BT. Having moved offices to something a little bigger, it was a shock out of the 1970s to discover there would be a three-week wait for a new phone line + broadband. We were whizzed back to the dark…

LesleyJuly 2, 2012

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It’s an omni shambles

Two phrases caught my attention this week and made me smile for their inventive use of words. The first was 'economic patriotism', dreamed up by a candidate in the French presidential election as a euphemism for paying higher taxes. How to make something bad sound something good.

LesleyApril 29, 2012

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Tell a story (how to get an OBE)

The art to drawing in an audience is telling a story. It’s something I’ve been doing recently in writing Queen’s Honours nominations for some very worthy people who are being put forward for OBEs and knighthoods. You may not know that Honours don’t always come floating down from the Palace…

LesleyMarch 31, 2012

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Why the Indy wasn’t wrong

A comment from a friend of mine has underlined the virtues of knowing your market, knowing what your customers want and setting yourself apart from the competition. The friend is Richard Palmer, Royal Editor of the Daily Express (you can find him at @RoyalReporter on Twitter), and we’ve known each…

LesleyMarch 16, 2012

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It’s the season for better blogs

Whoosh, there goes Valentine’s Day. Mother’s Day is storming up on the horizon with Easter steaming along behind it. Are you missing out on something? The shops execute super-swift changes to replace one seasonal display with the next. In fact at the moment Mothering Sunday gifts (Kath Kidston all round?)…

LesleyFebruary 28, 2012

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How the media works

The Leveson Inquiry might be unearthing all sorts of skeletons in media cupboards as well as unfairly giving many honest journalists a bad name, but I can see the fascination. To those on the outside, Fleet Street (and local newspapers or magazines, for that matter) moves in mysterious ways. Why…

LesleyFebruary 12, 2012