Tom Billinge Email & Phone Number

Remote

From native content to email marketing, I provide a full package of copywriting services for multiple industries. With a focus on hospitality, travel and tourism services, I write copy for a number of multinational and mid-sized companies on a freelance basis.I provide superb content on a vast variety of subjects that is fully optimised and meticulously researched. I create first rate copy that enhances websites for businesses, driving traffic and commerce through socially shareable engaging content.

Remote

I provide excellent content for third party websites about a wide range of subjects including travel, culture and heritage. I write first class copy and illustrate my words with high quality, relevant images, graphics and digital maps to enhance the articles I write, as can be seen in the examples of my work below.

Remote

I write fresh, enticing copy for Red Carnation Hotels on an ongoing freelance basis. As well as general web copy and blog posts, I write the copy for their email marketing. I produce clean copy with a defined corporate voice.

I am the editor for Revgear's media website. I collaborate with contributors and edit a range of articles that focus on combat sports and the combat lifestyle. From fighter profiles, to technical breakdowns, to travel tips, to martial arts history, my work encompasses a broad spectrum of interests for the modern martial artist.

Remote

The Temple Trail is a website dedicated to providing excellent content about the world's religious heritage. History, culture, travel and religion are seamlessly melded in well crafted articles and essays. The content is solely created by me and the photographs are mainly taken and edited by me also. Due to my work on The Temple Trail, I have produced content for other travel and cultural websites.My work is SEO optimised and is written with a strong understanding of how SERPs rank pages.

Hong Kong - Remote

I craft informative and accessible articles with images about cultural heritage for Zolima City Mag, a beautiful culture and lifestyle magazine based in Hong Kong. I am the magazine's temple and traditions expert and I create well received and popular pieces about Hong Kong's incredible cultural legacy. http://zolimacitymag.com/author/tom-billinge/

Remote

I contributed articles about spiritual places to Conscious Traveller Magazine, an exciting new travel publication.

Remote

I edited and reworked client's copy for Soul Seed Travel's yoga retreat listings. I took preexisting copy and turned it into dynamic, optimised copy that generated leads and conversions. For Soul Seed, I worked in HTML through the WordPress platform using WooCommerce.

Remote

The Hong Kong Temple Map is a project aimed at producing a beautiful large format map of Hong Kong, its temples and cultural relics. The map will be professionally printed and drawn by the best cartographers in East Asia. The text will be fully crafted by me.In the build up to a crowd funding project, my responsibilities are to create engaging web content that helps to build an audience. I work alongside our social media team and the Digital Marketing Coordinator in order to create and promote excellent content that is fully SEO optimised for maximum impact.

Hong Kong

As the Head Teacher at GEOS, a language school aimed at the Japanese learner market, I was responsible for leading the teaching staff, training in new procedures and liaising between the sales team and the teaching team. The role was a hybrid between management, product development and customer relations, along with the usual teaching schedule.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

At Wall Street, I was a star teacher with the highest level of customer satisfaction in my large centre. I taught 30 hours a week and was key asset to the organisation.

Santiago De Chile, Chile

My work at Comunicorp, a business English training provider, was twofold. Firstly, I conducted lessons and training both on and off site to business professionals. My remit was to enable them to use English thereby improving their business skill sets. Secondly, I was responsible for maintaining, editing and improving the company's teaching resources.

Hanoi, Vietnam

As a teacher at Apollo, I conducted about 24 hours a week of classes for English language learners of all ages. I taught general and corporate lessons. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I consulted on behalf of the company with other organisations, including VTV, the national television station, where I made frequent appearances on the most popular show in Vietnam, 'Road to Olympia'.I was also the public face of the company on a number of occasions and gave talks in order to help drive recruitment for Apollo.

Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand

I was a teacher of English to large classes of Thai high school students. I taught around 25 hours a week and was an active member of the English department, conducting extra-curricular activities.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

As the Administrator of Gates Cambridge, a world class scholarship trust for the best graduate students in the world, I had a number of key duties. In the first stage of the recruitment process, all applications went through me in order to prepare the papers of eligible, suitable candidates for the selection panels. I then had responsibility for arranging travel logistics and interviews for shortlisted candidates in the USA and Cambridge, England.I oversaw the students day to day needs concerning welfare, financial and academic issues. I also generated statistical reports regarding demographics, financials, and academics of scholarship recipients, highlighting possible improvements and allowing the Trust to better target the outreach programs for more diversity.I collaborated with officers to organise networking and recruiting events on behalf of the trust, as well as working with the Programme Director to manage Gates Cambridge publicity by updating the website, liaising with publicity agents, and editing the Scholars Yearbook.