Having worked in retail financial services for fourteen years, assisting a client with the creation, design and content for a credit card comparison site was a job perfectly tailored to my skills.
Credit Card Rewards has quickly grown to become one of Australia’s most popular card comparison sites thanks, in no small part, to the 70 odd card reviews and almost 200 articles about cards, fees, banking and charges that I have provided the site to date. Combining my knowledge of financial services with my writing ability has been almost the ideal job.
(Incidentally, and annoyingly, about the only thing on the entire site that I didn’t write was the homepage welcome text, which I don’t like very much. My version was (in my humble opinion) *much* better…..!
The site continues to grow and is now quite the resource – as well as dozens of cards to compare it contains a huge amount of information. I’m pretty proud of the way it has turned out, and my client is delighted with it too.
Having written countless articles about how to avoid credit card and identity fraud, I actually took some of my own advice today. When an obviously fraudulent ‘phishing’ e-mail turned up in my inbox today, I researched the provider it was purporting to be and forwarded the e-mail to their security department. Practice what you preach, and all that….
And now this project is up and running, the same client has turned his attention to an altogether more, er, ‘adult’ online market. More of that in due course….
Nick Parkhouse is a professional writer. He provides articles, copy, press releases and books and marketing material to a range of local and international clients. He also specialises in sports writing for a number of international sports companies as well finance, property, politics and cinema writing.
