If you’re a copywriter that uses any of the myriad online freelance websites to find clients (Upwork/Elance/oDesk, Guru, fiverr, Thumbtack, Freelancer.com, etc.), it’s important to be sure the people you serve leave feedback for you after you’ve thrilled them to their toes. Because I’ve left the freelance sites (for the most part) for the past […]
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I’m on a tear tonight. It’s copy writing imposters who give real copywriters a black eye. Because so few people know any great copywriters personally–or what they should be willing to pay to get a great one–they all too often hire unknowns and wannabes at secretarial-level wages…and the results dismay and discourage them so
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The Internet doesn’t need yet another diatribe against the dentist who tortured Cecil the Lion for forty interminable hours by shooting him with an arrow and then tracking him for more than a day and a half, drop by bloody drop, to locate him again and put him out of his misery. There aren’t enough
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Yesterday I was awake only about eight hours of the 24. While awake, I was biking, sitting with the goats, reading, visiting Facebook, Upworthy and my email account, and editing two short projects. (Yeah, I know, I usually don’t write on weekends, but I hadn’t done any paid work for several days, so I had
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Here’s the huge difference between misinformation and disinformation. A person relaying misinformation usually believes that the information he is giving is correct information. A person relaying disinformation knows that the information he is giving is deceptive in one or more ways. Examples of each: Misinformation: “Seattle is only about twenty miles
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It rained on our property for just a couple of minutes at noon today. I felt like doing a rain dance! We’ve had less than an inch of rain in over two months and only three days of rain are in the forecast between now and mid to late August so, needless to say,
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Today I put the finishing touches on the book I ghostwrote for a client–including the back cover sales copy. So that one is put to bed as far as my efforts go. The copyright holder will create the cover (or have one created), format it for publication, get the ISBN number, and so forth. I
“Dying to Be Me, My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing” by Anita Moorjani is an astonishing book. I recommend it to every soul on the planet–seriously! It’s a Hay House publication. The foreword is by Dr.Wayne Dyer. In fact, he pursued the author to get her to write her story so
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What does your favorite word whisperer do on her day off when I learn that the weekend is going to be another scorcher? Why, I get up at dawn to pound 30 fence posts while it’s still cool enough. Then I prepare the shed to be renovated before the truck arrives that will deliver 15,
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This morning during my bike ride in Orting I was thrilled to spot a doe and her two knee-high fawns entering the bike path just a hundred feet or so ahead of me. I slowed to a stop and watched them amble up and across the bike path away from me for about twenty feet.
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