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The Six Rules of Effective Communication: Rule Six

All good things must come to an end. We’ve spent the last one, two, three, four, five blogs cov­er­ing Hake’s six key rules to clear­er, more effec­tive and engag­ing copy — and next week we’re going to have to find some­thing new to talk about — but this week we’re look­ing at: Rule Num­ber Six: Adapt­ing to the Chan­nel ff […]

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The Six Rules of Effective Communication: Rule Five

We’ve spent the last one, two, three, four blogs cov­er­ing Hake’s six key rules to clear­er, more effec­tive and engag­ing copy. This week we’re look­ing at: Rule Num­ber Five: Get the Struc­ture Right Hire A Way With Words for all of your con­tent cre­ation and copy­writ­ing needs, that you don’t realise you have yet.  Come again? Too many of us

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The Six Rules of Effective Communications: Rule Four

When approach­ing writ­ing, we fol­low Hake’s six key rules to clear­er, more effec­tive and engag­ing copy. In our last three blogs, we looked at rules num­ber one (know your audi­ence), two (set a clear goal) and three (get­ting the tone right). This week we are look­ing at: Rule Num­ber Four: Use Clear Words Jar­gon, tech­ni­cal terms, busi­­ness-speak and complicated

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The Six Rules of Effective Communications: Rule Three

When approach­ing any type of writ­ing, we fol­low Hake’s six key rules to clear­er, more effec­tive and more engag­ing copy. In our last two blogs, we looked at rules num­ber one (know your audi­ence) and two (set a clear goal). This week we are look­ing at: Rule Num­ber Three: Get The Tone Right Tone is incred­i­bly impor­tant. Research shows that

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Effective communication - Goal setting

The Six Rules of Effective Communications: Rule Two

When approach­ing any type of writ­ing, we fol­low Hake’s six key rules to clear­er, more effec­tive and more engag­ing copy. Last week we looked at rule num­ber one: Know your audi­ence. This week we are look­ing at: Rule Num­ber Two: Set A Clear Goal We all know that we should take the time to cre­ate clear strate­gies when it

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Content Writing Audience

The Six Rules of Effective Communications: Rule One

When approach­ing any type of writ­ing, we fol­low Hake’s six key rules to clear­er, more effec­tive and more engag­ing copy. We will spend the next few blogs explor­ing these rules, start­ing with the most impor­tant rule of them all: Rule Num­ber One: Know Your Audi­ence Love thy­self and know your audi­ence. Before putting pen to paper, brain

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Blog Writing Milton Keynes

For The Love Of Blog, Get a Blog: Five Reasons To Blog

Blog­ging used to be some­thing that your back­pack­ing cousin did whilst trav­el­ling the world’s inter­net cafes. Nowa­days, blogs are every­where, some­times mak­ing us ques­tion who actu­al­ly reads these!? But blogs are a huge­ly impor­tant part of your busi­ness and here’s why: 1. We’re Open For Busi­ness When you stum­ble across an unfa­mil­iar web­site you want to be

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Fish Without Chips? How to Write About Different Topics

This week I was asked to proof­read and “jazz up” a newslet­ter arti­cle about a local fish­ing club in Mil­ton Keynes.   Now, I don’t know a lot about fish (unless they come with chips or stared in find­ing Nemo) and my fish­ing vocab­u­lary isn’t that great (reely), how­ev­er, writ­ing about top­ics that I (pre­vi­ous­ly) knew

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