chris who?

♥ CLIENTS

Accelerate Media
Action Mining Services
Bandt Gatter & Assocs
David Deane-Spread
Fleetwood Corp. Founder: John Wood
Grand Touring Products
Land4Sale
Leadership in Action
National Lifestyle Villages
Prana Active
Prana Beauty
Principles in Business
SME Leadership Challenge
Statewest Surveying

THE GRAND EMPIRE

"Hi David,
hope this email finds you well. And yes, I might just have the person you're looking for. I first engaged Chris in the late 80s to research a prospect I had short notice to pitch to. Since then, she's moved into copywriting and frankly, she's BRILLIANT - intuiting the message and delivering it elegantly. And, she isn't chasing The Grand Empire. Interested?
Regards, James"

James Michael
SME Leadership Challenge (March 2011)
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the portfolio?

Much of what I do is confidential and thus unfortunate in terms of providing an online portfolio. Here's where you get the unvarnished truth, warts and all...

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CLIENT CONFIDENTIALITY

welcome

Most of my clients (but not all) are small to medium business operators. Some are in the professions, some have websites and some don't. The point is, none of them have the time or the desire to spend hours away from 'what they do'. That said, they quite rightly conclude that there are costs and risks inherent to farming out their face to the world to "someone in the office" or, at the other end of the scale, the same in commissioning an Ad Agency.

Which all makes perfect sense. Luckily, they found someone who (as one of my clients succinctly points out) is not chasing the Grand Empire. Indeed! I prefer to write elegantly, respect deadlines and charge fairly.

SPEAKING OF ELEGANCE (sigh...)

"At the end of the day, if we think outside the box, our communications strategies will exemplify state of the art clarity, to consistently yet flexibly move our constituents toward underwriting our efforts"

Dear Writer (whoever you are)

Call me. Because I know I can help you. Don't write another internal memo, a sales and marketing document, business proposal or campaign slogan. And please, don't write to your customers before we speak. You have erudition. But not empathy.

Am I being horribly unfair? I'm sorry... you see, at the end of the day (and I'm thinking outside of the box), your communication strategies don't exemplify state-of-the-art clarity. Thus, sadly, they do not consistently yet flexibly move your "constituents" toward anything. Perhaps you think me naive, unworldly? Unable to identify with you? I do. Really. I just wonder whether these cryptic and labyrinthine missives get in the way of delivering the outcomes you seek. So please...

Call me: 61 08 9574 1768
Or leave me a message. It's for your own good :) Chris

short stops

A 15 MINUTE MOVIE. KURT KUENNE. 2007
VALIDATION

2 MINUTE STORIES. CHRIS LEES
DON'T BADGER ME!
KEEPING STOCK
THIS (PLAYFUL) LIFE
WHAT ERRAND ARE YOU ON?

THE STORY OF THE SIGN.
ALONSO ALVAREZ BARREDA
(short story winner, 2008 Cannes Festival; later 'borrowed' by PurpleFeather and rebranded as The Power of Words)

really, unworthy

The absolute certainty of my peers. The intractable, incurious mind... not so much 'baby boomers' as fearful legacies of their youthful dreams. Poor sods! More cynical with every passing year...