Photo Source: www.positiveoutlooksblog.com This image speaks for itself. (Sometimes a picture is worth ten thousand words!) When you’re looking for a copywriter, you might be tempted to “go cheap”– to outsource to a foreign country or settle on a newbie because the price seems ridiculously right. After all, you’re taking a chance when […]
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Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude Today is the only day of the year that I’ll spend much time in front of the TV. Friends are coming over and bringing movies so we can watch them ’til our eyes cross. This is to keep us from discussing anything else today other than “Happy Thanksgiving”
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http://best.king5.com/kristine-m-smith-copywriter-dba-wordwhisperer/biz/700830 Thank you to everyone who voted for me during this year’s King 5 Best of Western Washington contest. I’m thrilled to find my name in the Top Ten out of 77 contenders… especially since so many of them are high-profile personalities and “must-see” “real-time” Tweeters (Dept of Transportation Traffic Reports, Jim Dever,
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Photo taken 11/24/1995 Today would have been my mom’s 94th birthday had she lived this long. (She passed away on October 23rd,1998 just a month and a day before what would have been her 77th birthday. She was born on Thanksgiving Day in 1921.) I miss her. If you knew her, you’d miss her, too.
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Winter Newsletter 2015 PDF Need a Holiday Newsletter Written? T’is the season! This time of year, if you’re not a writer, probably the last thing you’re looking forward to doing is the holiday newsletter. I can write it for you! All I need is a bullet list of talking points (the
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Work and Life Updates Had my teeth cleaned yesterday and saw my NP. She says my kidney tests are better this year than they were last. (I have only one working kidney–a congenital condition, I think, since two aunts had the same anomaly). While I was out getting my teeth cleaned and visiting with
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(OK, so she’s no longer a pullet…get over it!) Two neighbor kids brought me a chicken addition yesterday morning. They said their other hens all got eaten by dogs and this one was attacked but they got her away, so they wanted to find her a good home. She’s a Buff Orpington (probably
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It’s too wet and windy to make repairs. If I did it, they’d just be undone again…so I may as well wait. The goats and chickens are fine. They have warm, dry spots to curl up in. I’m just ticked off because up until today they also had a lot MORE dry areas to
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There is a fellow in my neck of the woods who intermittently drives me up the wall. He calls to pick my brain, asks me to review his seriously substandard copy and give him a price to fix it, and then says he can get another copywriter he knows to do it for less.
Today I’m going to meet with my power partner, social media maven Lisa Twining Taylor, to come up with a blockbuster social media campaign that will extend my present outreach to new DeForest Kelley fans in addition to the ones who already know about my 30-year association with De. Among ours existing social
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