by Gill Booles | Oct 29, 2010 | Project management
Feature creep is the tendency for anything complicated to become even more complicated because people keep saying ‘wouldn’t it be nice, wouldn’t it be even better if it had this feature too…’. Also known as is a tendency for a project’s requirements to increase during...
by Gill Booles | Mar 30, 2010 | Freelancing
April brings new beginnings. It brings the new financial year which in turn brings new budgets to spend, particularly in the public sector. With the prospect of new campaigns on the horizon, here are some points to consider if you’re thinking about commissioning a...
by Gill Booles | Mar 3, 2010 | Freelancing
Who hasn’t had to bring in some external help to meet a tight deadline at one time or another? If you’ve never done it before it can be a daunting prospect. Here are my top tips for bringing a freelancer on board, painless and effortlessly Preparation. Before you...
by Gill Booles | Jan 20, 2010 | Freelancing, Marketing
Work, like the seasons, tends to follow a certain pattern. In the public sector, January is all go. There’s pressure to spend budgets by the end of the financial year, projects are reaching the end of their production cycle and there’s proofreading galore to get...
by Gill Booles | Nov 26, 2009 | Editing, Freelancing, Marketing, Proofreading
The psychology of the supermarket shop sometimes seeps into the mind of a client. We’re used to going in to pick up a toilet roll and waddling to the car with enough BOGOF rolls to insulate the attic. But getting more for our marketing pound doesn’t necessarily mean...
