Websites websites… Websites and website design are a funny thing. There are now approximately 1.1 billion websites in the world. So, you’ve quite a lot of competition if you want your site to be seen. Back in the ‘good old days’, people would code and design their own...
The first in a series of articles about effective writing for businesses and organisations, used with kind permission from Rod Sweet. Rod is a brilliant writer and construction journalist we’ve known for many years. He, like us, has a ‘thing’ about...
A client once said to me, ‘I don’t get involved in marketing because there’s no science to it, and everyone has an opinion’. I’d agree with the second part, but the first part is arguably not correct. 20 years of writing, researching, learning and studying have taught...
Readability – arguably one of the biggest challenges facing the technical writer… If you work in the world of construction and law, you probably saw the latest big news around adjudication, from the ‘Bresco’ case. Lots of summaries and Linkedin Posts were...
Week four of #ConstructionCast saw us welcoming Yasmine Nashawati and Julie Bamford of the RICS disputes and marketing team in the UAE, Nick Saalfeld a leading communications expert and journalist, along with Anthony Carroll of 20 Essex to discuss communications and...
BD and Marketing in a Crisis In the past few weeks I’ve heard at least three people say, ‘we’re cutting back on marketing’ or, ‘budgets are frozen for that type of thing’. When times get (or look like they might get) tough, marketing, and perhaps to a lesser extent,...