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ABOUT US AND

THE FREELANCE

WRITING BLOG
Introduction Editorial

Our journey is quite exciting (from our perspective). My husband and I met each
other at the trade union we were working for in 2001. He worked in our Cape
Town office and I worked at the Head Office in Pretoria. We never met until
2001 and we were married about 4 months later! Here we are, more than 16 years
later and still very happy.

By Kim Bock

Both of us consider ourselves to be Late in 2017, we talked and decided that
creative people. I wrote and published a we could do more to not only exercise our
novel and Eitel wrote poetry and played creative side, but also to help other people
the guitar in a band. He was also very to realise their own dreams to work from
good with computers and subsequently home and still be able to earn a sufficient
decided to take a course in Website living.
Design which he passed at the University We soon realised that we could expand
of Cape Town. our existing business along the lines of the
During 2015 we decided that we were Hub-and-Spoke ecommerce model.
ready to quit our day jobs and start the WebScripto will be the hub and we will
next leg of our journey together. Both of explore other avenues of linking spokes to
us have been negotiators, so we knew and this hub. Obviously we felt that it should
liked people and also how to get the best all be related.
for them, sometimes under very difficult The Freelance Writing Blog saw the light
circumstances. as we could still explore and share our
We consequently knew we still belonged knowledge in the related field of Digital
in the ‘people business’. We established a Marketing. Blogging is very much a
Website Design Company (WebScripto business in its own right, as it takes a
Pty Ltd) which quickly evolved into a tremendous amount of time to not only
Digital Marketing Agency. We have a very create it, but to make it effective and work
good and loyal client base and love doing as a business.
what we do.

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