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Contributor profile: Barry Bell

I'm a freelance writer and designer with over 10 years’ experience of creating award-winning recruitment and consumer marketing communications, together with a wide range of other creative marketing colateral.

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Website: http://barrybell.com
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Articles written: 293

BARRY BELL'S Articles

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By Barry Bell on September 25, 2009 | 0 comments yet | Read more »

5 alternative ways to market YOU.

Yesterday I read about Richard Millington’s alternative approach to landing an internship with Seth Godin. Basically, Richard has gone one step further than simply sending in his CV and has created a blog to showcase his talents and – not so subtly – to let the world know that he wants to work with Seth [...]

By Barry Bell on April 7, 2008 | 0 comments yet | Read more »

School holidays: how do you mix work with your kids?

I used to love the school holidays when I was a kid. But now that I work from home and have kids, it’s a completely different story.
During term time, my kids (ages 6 and 3) are out all day at school and my time is my own, save for school runs and the like. I [...]

By Barry Bell on April 7, 2008 | 0 comments yet | Read more »

Rock staff outlook – not as bad as it seems?

The man tasked with finding work for the thousands of Northern Rock staff facing the axe has said the North East is remarkably well placed to handle the redundancies, reports The Journal
Alan Clarke, chief executive at development agency One NorthEast, claims there are more than 1000 financial sector jobs available in the North East right [...]

By Barry Bell on March 28, 2008 | 0 comments yet | Read more »

Looking for contributors.

You might already know that the wurk network will be launching again soon. Right now, we’re looking for post contributors, guest authors and other bloggers who can contriibute high quality, informative and entertaining posts to the network.
In terms of industry-specific content, we’d love to read anything related to looking for jobs and tips and tricks [...]

By Barry Bell on March 25, 2008 | 0 comments yet | Read more »

Boom time for jobs on the Tyne

Shepherd Offshore, based at the Walker Technology Park in Newcastle, is submitting plans to the city council to develop sites on White Street and the old CJ Marine yard that could help create 150 new jobs on the Tyne.
Director Charles Shepherd said:
“This is all part of our overall strategic redevelopment plan which is aimed at [...]

By Barry Bell on March 15, 2008 | 0 comments yet | Read more »

Getting organised as a freelancer – what works for you?

I’m a freelance writer. So that means I spend all of my time writing, right? Wrong. As well as the writing, there’s creating and sending cost estimates, taking briefs over the phone or in person, going to meetings, answering emails, writing emails, managing emails, researching work, making phone calls, answering phone calls, tracking down [...]

By Barry Bell on January 30, 2008 | 0 comments yet | Read more »