JESS COLLINS

THE Creativity Chronicles

A journal of creative thoughts, content commissions I'm working on and where I'm at right now. 
The life of a creative copywriter.

"Creativity takes courage" - Henri Matisse

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I want to begin by saying today was supposed to be a wonderful post about the importance of content strategy but it’s been blog-bombed by the need to address this topic (and a bit of a rant – soz). Dear NAME, Firstly can I apologise for any offence caused; this was never my intention.  I […]

July 29, 2020

Community Over Copying

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I often get businesses approach me who have already worked with copywriters and things have gone a little bit wrong.  This immediately makes it difficult as there’s trust issues.  And I get it.  At the end of the day – copywriters aren’t like vets or lawyers, anybody can pick up a pen and tell you […]

July 27, 2020

How To Tell if a Copywriter is Any Good

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Rewind to around ten years ago and I was receiving coaching from some local companies renowned for helping small businesses.  The trouble was – their blueprint for success all seemed to fit the same formula: grow your company, employ as many people as you can and make sure you have some kind of exit strategy. […]

July 13, 2020

Designing a Life that You Love (Why I Chose to Stay Small)

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Client: “I’m thinking we could write a bit about why to visit us, take a look at the local area, nice days out, great location, good for work… good for leisure…” Me (internally): I would rather gauge my own eyes out with the pencil I’m holding.

October 24, 2018

Your money or your meaning?

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One of the things I so often see is people spending time to grow their Instagram following to look successful and like they are doing well in business. This often means spending every waking hour on the platform, putting image after image up and obsessively liking and commenting on industry updates.

February 26, 2018

Profit Before Popularity

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When it comes to hiring a copywriter, this is perhaps my biggest piece of advice: tell me the truth. Sounds obvious, right? And yet so many people who come to me for writing start out by telling me the trivial and the contrived.

January 29, 2018

Treat Your Copywriter as Your Confidante

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It’s been many years since I’ve seen the film Single White Female but from what I remember, it goes a bit like this… woman puts up advert for a housemate, housemate moves in and basically wants to be the original housemate and starts slowly imitating her and taking on her persona until she then tries […]

January 15, 2018

Single White Female… Entrepreneur

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“All these songs I’m hearing are so heartless. Don’t trust a perfect person and don’t trust a song that’s flawless”

February 3, 2017

Don’t Trust a Perfect Person

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