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Copywriting TipsFrom the table
of…Stationery Addict
by:
Clare James
As a kid, one of my greatest treats was to visit WHSmith in town. Way back in the days before tragedies like little Jamie Bulger being snatched, my Dad would-be leave me in WHS, under the watchful eye of the friendly safety guard spell Dad went off and stood in the endless queue in the near bank on a Weekday
morning. The racks and rows of letter paper supplies captivated me – peradventure an early symptom of the writing career I’d try to forge as a so-called grown-up up…
Even as I got older, I’d spend as more of my allowance on postcards, pens, writing paper
and stickers as my girlfriends would-be on lipstick or nail varnish! My 1st paid job was a junior administrator; unsurprisingly I attained
brownie points by staying late and meticulously organising the letter paper cupboard, then maintaining near-perfect levels of products required! This led, eventually, to my being involved with the truly serious business of overseeing the layout and design of howling items like business cards, compliment slips and letterheads…
Adulthood has taken me far on the far side
the shelves of WHSmith (although I still can ne'er
pass them by without a quick jaunt about the letter paper department!). The in progress development of net
services such as Goodprint; mean my table
at home is as showing neatness
furnished
as the supply store in my geographical point
– with personal return labels, correspondence cards, letterheads, postcards and a rainbow stack of post-it notes. I even as have ‘personal’ business cards with my home details on – perfect for giving to strange men in loud bars at those times once
I am to drunk to recall my name, more less my phone numbers!
I’m in the middle of moving house, so I get to indulge in a altogether new set of personal correspondence provisions, in my eyes that task wish for sure be the most exciting part of the grim process of moving.
I find my deep letter paper habit weirdly fulfilling, it’s harmless, comparatively
cheap and has none of the health risks (bar the odd paper cut) associated with several of my else vices (like loud bars and strange men!!). Several of my friends find it a little disturbing; nonetheless, the same friends have equally odd habits that I choose to with courtesy ignore, so like a true crony I only ask the same in return!
Just about the author:
Written for Goodprint Ltd, providors of instant online business cards and matching letter paper via their website http://www.goodprint.co.uk.
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