November 2009 - new clients

November was a busy, busy month for Nicola with a lovely load of new journalism and copywriting clients on the books.

With her journalism hat on, she wrote two features for Sweet magazine (out now in the Jan/Feb issue of the magazine): one about how keeping a diary can help manage diabetes and one about how an elite mountaineer balances Type 1 with his sport. She also carried out another interview for Sweet which will appear in Spring 2010.

She was contacted by an Editor she has written for in the past: the Editor has joined a new magazine (Women's Running - about to be launched) and asked Nicola to write an article about duathlon. Nicola was pleased to speak to World Champion Cat Morrison for the feature.

She was delighted to join the editorial panel of local Wokingham magazine Family Fitness Magazine. She'll be writing for the magazine every issue, but kicked off with a feature about mountain biking for families.

She interviewed the winners of the London Photographic Association's two recent competitions (My Back Yard and Love, Pain, Beauty) and helped the LPA with the forthcoming launch of a sister site.

Nicola also caught up with regular clients, including Andrea Williams at Assorti for whom she writes a regular monthly newsletter.

She took on five new clients in November. First up was a local Arbonne distributor who asked Nicola to write the content of her bimonthly newsletters. Then there was a local groundworks company (a fellow member of Wokingham BNI) who asked Nicola to write the copy for their home-page. There was also a local property management firm who asked Nicola to write the web copy for their new website (Nicola went one further and met with the web developer to learn how to use the CMS system, so she could upload the copy as well as write it). The Dial House, a hotel in Crowthorne, asked Nicola to write the content for their new website (new site coming soon). Finally, Nicola ghost-wrote several blog posts for a legal client.

On the topic of blogging, Nicola worked with marketing company Unity DC to assist Marlowe telecoms company MLL Telecom with their content management. She co-hosted a day's workshop, advising the MLL marketing and engineering teams on how best to generate content for their website, blog and marketing communications. It was fun!

Also fun (in a kind of tiring way) was the Saturday she spent at a Train Like A Pro workshop, courtesy of fitness-instructor training company Premier. The course is a CPD course for personal trainers and involved kettlebell training, medicine ball training, body weight training and more. She then redeemed a voucher she got for her birthday in July (!) and had a wonderful personal training session with kettlebell queen Charlotte Ord in Guildford. Thanks, Char!

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