Being a social entrepreneur is all encompassing right? I know because I've set up a few social enterprises myself, including a good news website designed to inspire positive social and environmental change, and a solutions focused newspaper about low carbon projects in my community. Along the way I wrote an article or two (well thousands) …
Connect, fast with potential customers
Running a successful business is well, busy, and when you get great feedback from customers it’s easy to smile, then move onto the next task. But those rave reviews are gold! They help future customers understand how you can help them, they build trust, they’re very shareable in this social media climate, and they often …
It’s ok to tell them
Is the true awesomeness of your business understood??
Every day, in small and not so small ways, your business is making good things happen. You wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't. It's not always easy, some days are terrifying/boring/average but other days your work fills you with huge satisfaction because it makes another human's life just a little bit better. That story …
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We’d love to help you share your news
Are you keeping your staff and customers up to date with the daily news of your business? It can be a daunting task! We'd love to help. Charlotte Squire Coms have over 50 years experience between them as wordsmiths, photographers and designers. They can take care of the stories and help you keep your website …
Why your story matters
My father once escaped, naked, from a prison camp with another guy. Actually, he was taken prisoner and escaped twice, with others. He was a soldier in the British army. And that’s all I know. I don’t know where he escaped from or what year it was. I don’t know who he escaped from, or who …
What I do
Hi there, I'm Charlotte Squire and that's me after a good sweaty bike up the Rameka Road (mountain biking country)! I am incredibly lucky to live in Golden Bay, between two lush national parks. I live here with my family. I write extraordinary stories about everyday people. I've been a writer for twenty years and …
Capturing extraordinary stories about everyday people
Memoirs and biographies can include your family
I write people's memoirs or biographies and lately I've come to realise our lives are so intertwined with others that it's hard to follow one person's story, without threading into the stories of those around us. Isn't that a beautiful thing? We're inately social beings. I've noticed that once the subject of the memoir has …
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Memoirs can be like watersheds
When people sit down to talk to me, knowing I'm there to record their life stories, deep feelings can rise up to have their say too. Firstly, where on earth do they start and how can they encompass all those days of love, laughter, sweat, tears and everything in between in a few hours of …
Why it’s important to look where you want to go
Tyres. Usually this wouldn't be a subject I passionately rave about, but it was during an interview with a successful tyre business owner last week that I was reminded to be sure of where I wanted to go. So this guy I was interviewing. He was buzzing with passion. He was revolutionising the tyre industry. …
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Time slows and connection grows at the iconic Langford Store
By Charlotte Squire The newlyweds sit down outside the weather beaten shop. Their shoulders visibly drop as they gaze at a horizon of hills, feeling the sun on their faces. They make eye contact with a nearby elderly couple who are doing the same, and before long the four have become life long friends over …
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Why now’s the time to release your low-carbon idea into the world
You know that idea that sparks in you sometimes? That alluring, sexy call to set up that eco-awesome project that sends shivers through you each time you think of it? That unexplainable pull to take eco-loving action, that doesn’t come from your mind but from your soul? Pay it heed. Because you are not alone. …
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How to get some media love when you’re launching your low carbon project
By Climate Love founder Charlotte Squire You’re on the brink of launching your amazing, low carbon project and you’re ready for some media lovin’. You’ve got your branding all sorted, your website up and running, and you think you’re offering pretty something awesome to the world. There’s only one problem: so far the media attention …
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Workshop: How to pitch your story to media, so you get noticed.
Climate Love
Introducing a new project, all about people reducing their carbon footprints.
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