Jackie Barrie
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Jackie Barrie is a copywriter, speaker and trainer who specialises in Writing Without Waffle.

Her first book, 'The Little Fish Guide to DIY Marketing', made it to top 10 in its category on Amazon within two days of launch in October 2010. 'The Little Fish Guide to Networking' was released in June 2011, and reached the top 20.

She founded the Comms Plus writing and design agency in 2001 after 20 years as a copywriter and marketer in the corporate world.

Jackie holds an Open University BA Honours degree that included the psychology of how people process words and symbols. For a deeper understanding of the power of words, she qualified as an NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) through INLPTA. She originally trained as a journalist.

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Social Media and the 'Blind Voting' Dilemma

Posted February 8, 2012 | 02/08/12 03:34 PM ET

I'm in a dilemma. One of my books has been nominated for an award, and I can't decide how I feel about asking non-readers to vote. There's an angel on one of my shoulders, and a devil on the other. Let's eavesdrop on their conversation:


Angel: Do...

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Why Advertising Is Dead

15 Comments | Posted January 20, 2012 | 01/20/12 05:00 PM ET

90 percent of web interaction starts with search (Source: Pew Internet). When you search, you're looking for information or entertainment, you don't want to be sold to.

Yet, all over the Internet, I keep seeing the same badly written ad with a cartoon captioned: 'One weird old tip of a...

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Why Social Media Doesn't Mean Business

4 Comments | Posted January 4, 2012 | 01/04/12 06:05 PM ET

Don't imagine that social media will directly win you business. They might. Just like face-to-face networking might. But just as it's unlikely that you'll meet someone on day one who says: "Hoorah, you sell exactly what I need, let me give you my money", it's unlikely that a presence on...

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Putting the Social Into Social Media

4 Comments | Posted December 20, 2011 | 12/20/11 06:08 PM ET

When you meet people in real life, whether in the boardroom, at a conference or in a networking meeting, you (hopefully) don't walk in wearing a sandwich board or pushing a trolleyful of products and shouting 'BUY MY STUFF!'

Equally, you don't behave the same way as you would at...

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