Yesterday a potential client reached out to me on Alignable, asking to connect. I looked over his niche and existing copy and felt I could help him immensely because his online spiel about how Christ-based his service is (Cambridge English Dictionary definition of spiel: “a speech, especially one that is overly long and spoken quickly […]
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My latest client reviews/testimonials… THESE ARE TWO RECENT EXAMPLES of what a great review/testimonial looks like, in case you’re ever asked to write one. DETAILS MATTER! Copywriter for Crowdfunding Campaign Needed Rating is 5 out of 5. 5.00 Feb 19, 2021 “Kris is the answer. I submitted a posting for copywriters to help me with
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Unless at least 17 GOP Senators vote to convict the former president for inciting the insurrection on Jan 6th, our democracy’s days will be numbered — and it will fail on their watch. But should that surprise us, given their efforts to wrest democracy away from us in just about every other way for
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Quite unexpectedly, I scored my first COVID shot yesterday, thanks to a tip from a friend with insider information. I was typing away on a writing project proposal when the phone rang. Noticing that the caller was my friend, Judi Cooper, I answered it. She told me, “You were saying you missed your
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Today’s Wordsmith Deck question is, “If all jobs paid the same, what would you choose to do?” I am among the luckiest persons on the planet. My answer is, “Write.” And that’s what I do for a living. It took me a long time to decide to just “go for it
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My sister Jackie and I are working in separate areas of our property tossing out, or setting aside to donate, stuff we’ve accumulated over the years that we don’t use. Call it mid-winter spring cleaning. Jackie is in our storage area in the garage digging through everything that’s hers, and I was in the
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I have a deck of cards (Wordsmith Deck) with question prompts to jumpstart blog posts. Just ran across it again in my “games” stash… I pulled a card out at random and got this question: What qualities to you admire in yourself?” The ones that pop immediately to mind are PERSISTENCE, OPTIMISM, A
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I’m experiencing PWS — Patches Withdrawal Syndrome — this morning. I can’t wait to have my kitty cat back with me here at home! The good news is that she’s doing far better than I am. As of yesterday, they say she is relaxed, friendly, chatty, and eating like a horse. I’m only
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I have four (count ’em, four) new clients who have promised to be with me long term. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they haven’t been keeping me busy! GRRR! I landed them all around Christmastime and, since then, I’ve only done one or two tiny projects for each
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Clearing the Air with Revitalizing Conversations Can Put Your Relationships Back on Track I won’t get into specifics, but I do want to say how clearing the air with loved ones with whom you may disagree politically or in any other way is very refreshing. I highly recommend doing it, or initiating doing it,
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