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Improve Your Blog 3 Ways

It’s been more than a year since I switched from Typepad to WordPress… and it’s also been more than a year since I started using the Copyblogger theme for my blog (after a couple months running the Sandbox theme). Since last summer I had been thinking about upgrading to Chris Pearson’s Thesis Theme. From the […]

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Business Cards in a Pinch

A few days ago, W.C. bought my ebook on how to get copywriting clients. I then learned via Twitter that he was going to his first Internet marketing seminar, and that he needed business cards fast. Here’s what he wrote: Business cards are one of those things you don’t normally think about until you really […]

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Book Lovers – Pay Attention!

I just got done reading three marketing newsletters. I used to be good about tearing open the envelope whenever a newsletter arrived and reading it right then and there. These days, I’m more prone to save up two or three and then “batch” them by reading them one right after the other. Anyway, whether it’s […]

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Important Blog Updates

Over the last few months, I’ve tweaked this blog a bit and added a few pages. So I thought it would be good to let you know about them. 1. I removed the “no follow” tags from this blog. I did this on Fred Black’s recommendation. You can read his post about removing “no follow” […]

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How to Look Up Words in Seconds

As a writer, I often need to look up the meaning of words. Sometimes it’s because I don’t know what a certain word means; other times I need to confirm I’m using a word properly. Of course, I’ve got dictionaries on my shelf. I’ve even got a monstrous Webster’s Unabridged dictionary from 1978. (It measures […]

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