Jackie Barrie

Jackie Barrie founded the Comms Plus writing and design agency in 2001 after working for 20 years in the corporate world as a copywriter and marketer. She is the author of The Little Fish Guide to DIY Marketing: How to Make a Big Splash with a Small Budget, the first in a series of simple guides for startups and small businesses.

She has also worked as an insurance clerk, a bar-maid and a tea-lady.

Her favourite aspect of employment was having an MGF as a company car. Her favourite aspect of self-employment is not having to ask anyone for a day off.

Jackie holds an Open University BA Honours degree that included the psychology of how people process words and symbols. She is also qualified as an NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), for a deeper understanding of the power of language in written and spoken communications. She originally trained as a journalist.

In addition, she has studied creative writing with Sue Townsend (author of Adrian Mole) on a Greek island, achieved Advanced Communicator (Bronze) with Toastmasters, and moderated networking groups for BRX and Ecademy. She is also an Ezine Articles expert author, a co-founder of Bromley Creative Community and was on the original Information Design Association committee.

She hates tomatoes, alarm clocks and shoes, and likes dancing, scuba diving and making people laugh.

You’ll find more of Jackie’s tips at www.comms-plus.co.uk, on Ezine Articles and at http://jackiebarrie.blogspot.com. You’ll also find her on social networking sites including LinkedIn and Facebook, and can follow her on Twitter @jackiebarrie.

You can phone her on 0845 899 0258 or email jackie@comms-plus.co.uk.

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