Just When I Was Mellowing on Facebook

Question: What’s more cynical than deliberately writing a post about Facebook because it is guaranteed to draw hits?
Answer: Facebook itself.
I hope you’re sitting down when you read this (we pause as a million chairs drag across the scarred linoleum floor of our global consciousness) …but retarded Facebook apps like Farmtown and Mafia Wars are cynical [...]

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Just in Time for Veteran’s Day

Well, we set out to honor America’s veterans, and to sell medical devices. I’m confident we did the honoring part. The selling? It’s too soon to say.
Despite a last minute freakout caused by someone watching an old rough cut and asking for changes that were made two weeks ago, the Veteran’s Day videos are up.
So [...]

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A Copywriter (sometimes) Says No

I have been blessed with pretty decent clients. For the most part, they “get me,” and they “get it.” They understand the process, what works, what doesn’t, etc. And they are usually pretty good at explaining the process to their clients, and managing their expectations.
But sometimes, you get a client who refuses to be managed. [...]

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Livelyness for 1/100th of a Century!

LivelyExchange turns one year old today, and officially graduates to big boy underpants.
I promise not to get too philosophical about it. I like to think one of the charms of this blog is its willingness to recognize that there are tons of people who have done it a lot longer, who have a lot [...]

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The Weak Ahead*

In the next seven of your Earth-days, this ink-stained wretch must complete the following:

Two 1200-word, region-specific articles on data loss prevention
Final fixes on that long-gestating Biotech website
An SEO article on Real Estate
Three web marketing press releases, and
A transcription of a 1-hour SaaS Application interview (courtesy the 2-finger typing method.)

Oh, and by the way, my healthcare [...]

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SEO Write-o-Rama!

Previously on Battlestar Galactica…
*sigh* …Fridays without BSG? What am I supposed to do…get a life?
Anyway, I told you about a sudden demand for SEO article writing that is keeping me busy.
Now, I don’t have any particular philosophy on this kind of writing, I just have a method that works for me…practically, financially and [...]

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Putting the Grrr! in Facebook

The following rant is made possible by the fact that you can delete friends on Facebook without notifying them.
Sleepy Moon Guy: Keeps his browser open all day long, and sitting on Facebook.  Indicated by the sleepy blue sliver of a moon symbol next to his name.  Technically, he’s an “online friend,” but he lies in [...]

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Problems, comma, Good

As I keep telling those who inquire, I am definitely NOT setting the world on fire. But business is OK.  Things have picked up and, when you combine that with my usual lack of organization, fun stuff like this blog can start to suffer.
It’s the name of the game: juggling several projects at various points [...]

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Project Round Up!

In terms of readership, someone who posts twice a week should probably not pick Friday as one of those days. But this is when I have time. I’m usually done for the week by now. Either the newsletter is wrapped, or I am shooting off the approved final draft to the programmer. After that, blogging [...]

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The Transcriptionist

Obviously, we all have a slightly different work styles when it comes to writing. How we gather information, how we get inspired. I have one method that I hesitate to reveal.  Not because it’s so inventive, but because, at first glance,  it seems to be a waste dubious investment of time.
I refer to tape recording [...]

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