Tim McKnight
The copywriting guy
I’m an Australian living in Osaka, Japan – a city famous for concrete, octopus dumplings, and er, that’s about it.
If you’re a marketing manager or business owner in the advanced materials industry looking for a seasoned B2B copywriter, you’ve come to the right place.
With an educational background in metallurgy and more than a decade of professional writing experience under tight deadlines, spanning the private and public sectors, your next writing project is in safe and reliable hands. I speak your language and get things done on time.
Starting off translating government business rules from bureaucratic to English, I emerged with sanity mostly intact and have since been a technical writer in the insurance industry, an SEO blog writer, a tender and grant writer, and an editor of a broad range of technical and commercial documents that have been translated from Japanese into English. Materials include promotional brochures, website copy, technical reports and marketing collateral for advanced materials and medical device manufacturers, tourism promotional copy and much more.
Some highlights have been writing patronisingly soothing letters to disgruntled taxpayers on behalf of the government, after which I had to take a cold shower. While at the insurance company I resurrected an internal newsletter, taking it from a dinky four-page flyer to a 32-page quarterly e-mag chock-full of news, interviews and recipes for stews.
What’s more, I have helped commercial businesses and non-profit organisations to contracts and grants as a tender and grant writer to the value of several million dollars. That means a demonstrated, reliable track record of success to get results you want.
Professional development is crucial. So in recent times I’ve sharpened my copy claws on specialised B2B training created by respected B2B copywriting veteran Steve Slaunwhite. As such, I can hit the ground running on your next project, asking the right questions to the right people.
In my free time I’m an avid gourmand of non-fiction and the occasional bit of public speaking. And as an aviation geek, the perfect Saturday morning is sitting on the terrace of a local cafe watching the planes scream overhead.
And I love Welsh springer spaniels.
Look forward to meeting you and helping to grow your business with advanced materials copy that works.