BOX CLEVER CREATIVE
Communications. Content. Copywriting. Campaigns. Creativity.
Box Clever Creative is me, Jaime Gill, and a team of trusted, talented freelance collaborators I assemble when needed for particular projects. I'm an award-winning creative, copywriter & communications consultant with over 20 years experience in finding the words & creativity that bring brands & messages to life.
Clients include UNICEF, BBC, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Olympic Games 2012, Unilever, Prudential, Fujitsu, Casio, Marie Stopes, Smart Axiata and Yahoo.
I'm here if you need scalpel-sharp copywriting and content to jumpstart your website or social media, a dazzling creative idea to push past competitors, or an intelligent, integrated marketing strategy. I live in the UK & Cambodia, but work internationally.
Above is Honourable Warrior creative campaign led by Jaime Gill while working at This Life Cambodia. Copyright TLC, full case study here.
What does "BOX CLEVER"
mean, anyway?
Boxing clever is a sporting term which has been in use for more than a century. A fighter who boxes clever is someone who matches their natural abilities and strengths with a disciplined long-term strategy and smart, adaptable tactics. They typically read their opponents well and can game out a fight over multiple rounds. A fighter who boxes clever is usually able to defeat an opponent who is bigger and stronger.
My communications advice can help you box clever so you can take on and overcome your challenges or competitors, no matter how big they are.
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
STRATEGY
With twenty years of experience, I can put together a communications strategy which will help you achieve your business or campaigning goals, combining creative ideas, revitalised websites, brilliant blogging, souped up social media, traditional PR and more
BIG IDEAS
Ingenious video concepts that blew minds & won awards, record-breaking birthday cards, the world's first easy-read newspaper, diversity celebrated on postcards, social distance football - just some of the ideas that have made my clients famous and happy
WRITING
Coffee table books, websites, reports introduced by Hillary Clinton, blogs read by millions, social media posts that went viral, issues driven opinion pieces in international media, scripts for videos that changed social attitudes, speeches - I've written them all and more
MEDIA SAVVY
With 23 years of PR experience, and my own time as a journalist, I know exactly what the media want and am able to deliver communications strategies which deliver big media hits. Good PR will raise your profile, supercharge your SEO and bring in revenue
VIDEO
I've scripted videos costing $500,000 and personally driven the creation of videos costing $500. Both had brand-changing impact. I'm an expert in capturing complex subjects in simple, sharp, effective videos with over 25 million views in Cambodia alone.
SOCIAL
For better or worse, I'm immersed in social media. Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or another new upstart, I can help create content to cut through all the social media hubbub so your brand and message are heard.
MOST RECENT WORK
August 2020 to Present
Worked with UNICEF as a full time consultant, supporting storytelling and report writing. Played key role in World Children's Day "Reimagining The Future" campaign and drafted key content such as opinion pieces in national media. Supported the roll out of COVID-19 vaccines across Cambodia and worked on creative content.
March 2020 to Present
Wrote for blogs, websites and print about the pandemic's impact on individuals & businesses - clients included NGOs, lawyers, medical & big tech firms. I wrote several accounts of life during COVID for UNICEF, the World Food Programme and the European Union. These have been shared and read by tens of thousands.
March 2021
Worked with arts and culture non-profit Phare on a fundraising event to save its life saving services. Suggested breaking a Guinness World Record by performing a 24 hour circus. This became the biggest event in COVID-era Cambodia, watched by half a million, raising triple its target & winning multiple awards.
August 2020 to Present
Although much of my work during the COVID era was with development agencies and non-profits, I also continued to copywrite and develop creative strategies for commercial clients including Microsoft, successful start ups, entertainment businesses, major telecoms players and law firms.
May 2020
Worked with ISF Cambodia on a creative approach to communicating COVID risks to children, in the form of a new sport called Social Distance Football. The video of the game was viewed 160,000 times and recieved coverage on four continents, as well as enormously increasing ISF's profile and winning awards.
May to November 2020
Joined launch team of a new therapy & wellbeing centre. Wrote and designed website & social media presence. The Beekeeper has already grown very successful, become profitable & received print and TV media attention. Continue to provide pro bono support on an ongoing basis and scripted an upcoming short film.
A still from "The Big Leap", a series of short films exploring youth overcoming barriers, produced with Havas Riverorchid for UNICEF - to view click here
AWARD-WINNING COLLABORATION
The best work is born from collaboration. So if your project requires more skills or more hands on deck than I have, I'll assemble a crack team of fellow freelancers I've worked with before, including Khmer/English translators, film-makers, designers and editors.
But I also want to collaborate with you. Whether you want copywriting or content creation, a creative idea, or full marketing strategy, I'll take the time to get to know your brand and business inside out. We'll agree exactly what makes you special and design a strategy which makes sure the world finds out. In the last decade, my work won 17 international & 6 national awards, including:
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2022: Gold Award, Best Communications Professional, Stevie International Business Awards
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2022: Grand Stevie Winner, best non-profit response to COVID in world (for UNICEF)
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2022: Winner 2 Golds, Stevie International Business Awards, inc Most Creative Team (for UNICEF)
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2022: Winner of Gold, Hermes Awards, creative communications (global, for Jaime as individual)
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2022: Gold Award, AVA Digital Awards, creative communications (global, for Jaime as individual)
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2021: Gold Phenom Award as Creative Consultant, Shorty Awards (global, for Jaime as individual)
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2021: Best Freelancer, IPSE Awards (UK, for Jaime as individual)
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2021: Best Communications Professional (Silver), Stevie International Business Awards
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2021: Winner of 4 Gold Awards at Stevie International Business Awards (for Phare)
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2021: Winner, Most Innovative Event, at the Stevie Asia Pacific Awards (for Phare)
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2021: Platinum Award for best pandemic response at Hermes Creative Awards (for ISF)
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2021: Gold Award for best web writing at the Hermes Creative Awards (for UNICEF)
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2020: Winner Best Low Budget Campaign at the M&M Global Awards (for TLC)
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2020: Winner Best Social Good Campaign at Social Media Marketing Awards (for TLC)
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2019: Winner Best Campaign in Developing Nations at Shorty Awards (for TLC)
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2019: Double Winner, Social Media Marketing Awards, Social Good & Use of Facebook (for TLC)
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2018: AME Award finalist, at New York Festival Awards, (Havas on behalf of UNICEF)
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2018: Winner, Best Campaign in Cambodia, Dragons of Asia Awards (UNICEF, as above)
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2014: Winner Best Education Campaign at Charity Awards (United Response).
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2014: Winner Best Use of The Web at Charity Times Awards (United Response).