Scarletta News

Just How Far Are You Willing to Go?

By Melanie | Published March 1st, 2013

It”s the first day of March and spring is around the corner, and today marks another new chapter for me and Scarletta. Over the last four months I have had one foot back in the corporate world covering maternity leave on a contract role at a former company. I took the decision last year to take a part-time interim position as the regular work would enable me to focus on my business and move up and…

Getting Over Bloggers Block

By Melanie | Published September 11th, 2012

Did you know that Scarletta Media started out with a blog first? I created Scarletta’s Blog in WordPress before I had a website and in the early days I just wrote whatever I wanted to. No agenda, no schedule just blogged when the mood suited. At times it felt hard to keep up the momentum and I questioned whether or not to continue blogging at all. Part of my own social strategy is to blog…

Another Year Gone By Time to Celebrate

By Melanie | Published August 25th, 2012

This weekend will be a celebratory affair with my family. My Dad after years and years of hard slog and graft has finally joined my Mum in retirement and Scarletta Media and I will be celebrating three years in business. Three years that went quickly… The last three years has flown by, some days I do wonder how on earth I ended up in the position I am in. As I may have mentioned before…

Tribute to Sue Blake

By Melanie | Published August 7th, 2012

Sue Blake represented many authors via her public relations consultancy and I met Sue in 2010 initially through Twitter. We soon decided to meet face-to-face to discuss a potential social media project. With an afternoon spent in a coffee shop, we spent several hours chatting, getting to know each other and bouncing some ideas around. One of the things Sue wanted to do was to set up her own social book club. And before I…

Be Yourself Everyone Else Is Taken

By Melanie | Published July 18th, 2012

Whilst recently visiting a Scarletta client to work on their new website build and launch our conversation led to a discussion about a pitch they were also working on responding to. In the days before Scarletta Media I worked on bids, tenders and proposal documents. Our conversation brought back memories of those endless days sitting around the boardroom table with the bid team all working under extreme pressure to get our material created, collated, polished…

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