Mon.Sep 02, 2024

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14 Things I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Blogging

Blogging Wizard

Experience is a great teacher. Over the course of my 10+ years as a blogger, I have learned a lot of important lessons. Some were easy to learn. Others weren’t.

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7 Reasons Why I No Longer Answer Blogging Questions Via Social Media

Blogging From Paradise

I have already answered these blogging questions once, 5, 10 or 100 plus times on Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.

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Sometimes, 'Both' Must Go

Grammar Underground

“The hospital provides a supportive work environment for both doctors and nurses.” That “both” is, technically, just fine. But when “both” is immediately followed by a plural noun, it could momentarily be construed to be modifying that noun only. Someone looking at the phrase “both doctors and nurses” might first read it as “both doctors” and wonder which two doctors you’re talking about.

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Writing Horror And Selling Direct With David Viergutz

The Creative Penn

How can you sell a fiction experience rather than just selling a story? How do our personal obsessions arise in our books, whatever the genre? David Viergutz shares his thoughts in this episode. In the intro, the best marketing investments for authors [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Abundance mindset for authors [ KWL Podcast ]; Written Word Media have now announced direct sales links in their email newsletters.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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Wretched retching

Grammar Underground

A while back, a character in a book I was reading got sick. As told in the story, “He wretched” long after his stomach was empty. Oops. What the writer should have written — or, more precisely, what the copy editor should have caught — was that wretched should have been retched. The disheartening thing about this error is that it appeared almost 300 pages into an otherwise very well copy edited book.