Category: News

  • 27th March 2010

A company of copywriters

A company of copywriters? No, I’m not coining a collective noun for sales writers, but letting you know that – from 1st April 2010 – we’ll be trading as a limited company. If you’re a client, the only administrative change you’ll need to know about is our new bank account. We’ll be writing to you [...]

  • 16th March 2010

Wanted: Junior Copywriter

We’re recruiting. And we want someone who gets to the point quickly. More about the job If you like research, read widely and write well, then you will enjoy working as a Junior Copywriter. You’ll be writing a lot of copy for websites, particularly for businesses. As you find your feet, you’ll also write for [...]

  • 26th February 2010

GBBO (Getting British Business Online) copywriting service launched

Google, BT, PayPal, the Institute of Directors, Enterprise UK and e-skills UK have teamed up to offer small businesses a free website. [UPDATE! Go straight to *this page* to learn how our GBBO copywriting service helps your business to sell online] The project, called Getting British Business Online, could see up to 100,000 businesses getting [...]

  • 22nd November 2009

Colchester Connected up for an award *wins* business to business award

The Essex business magazine I edit, Colchester Connected, is up for has just won a gong in the Business to Business category of the Colchester & District Business Awards 2009. It’s great news for everyone involved in the magazine; but the thing that I love is that fact that so many finalists, in so many [...]

  • 9th November 2009

Ben Locker on BBC Radio 4′s Moral Maze

Last week, I appeared on BBC Radio 4′s Moral Maze alongside Professor Andrew Chadwick, journalist and author Nick Cohen, plus Spiked Online editor Brendan O’Neill. We were there to be grilled as ‘witnesses’ about Twitter and so-called ‘mob rule’ by a panel that comprised Kenan Malik, Melanie Phillips, James Panton and Clifford Longley. I’m going [...]