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Links: 2008-06-13
June 13th, 2008 |Remember to comment on this week’s post if you want a chance to win prizes. Seth Godin’s DVD set worth $800 is up for grabs! Should you sign your blog comments? Or is it redundant? “A Small Sheik Escaped” and other Editing Exercises to Energize Your Writing [...]
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Links: 2008-06-06
June 6th, 2008 |Add Spark to Your Writing with These 3 Simple Tweaks: I shy away from sentences where I use repeating words even though a comma separates them. This convinced me otherwise. So You Want to Become a Freelance Writer? Four part article with advice from the pros. [...]
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Two Deadlines Looming
October 2nd, 2006 |If you get an email with the above in the Subject without looking to see who sent it — what do you think? Considering I was swamped during that time, I jumped out of my seat. I always make an effort to beat my deadlines and probably because of all the things going on at [...]
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Dragging meryl.net Name through Mud
July 20th, 2006 |Ack! I started off the day with 2500 email messages! 2450 of it spam. Someone used meryl.net to send spam. The sender name had all kinds of first and last names, so my inbox (the catch-all for meryl.net. A catch-all email address gets all emails that have been misspelled or don’t exist.) got all the [...]
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Email Newsletters Usability
June 14th, 2006 |Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox discusses newsletter usability and the competition for user attention. Nilesen reports that the original findings remain true today: “email newsletters are the best way to maintain customer relationships on the Internet.” I love newsletters as a marketing tool. Done right, you provide valuable information to readers without annoying them with sales-speak. I [...]
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Abandoning Email for Communications
March 2nd, 2006 |Head boss of InternetVIZ, Hank Stroll, forwarded an email that was an auto reply: Due to large amounts of spam I am receiving I have abandoned email as a means of business communications. You must contact me at the office at ###-###-#### to correspond with me. Whoo, drastic move. Will more people do this? Yes. Will email [...]
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Diversify Content
February 27th, 2006 |We hear messages like “Do email newsletters!” “Start a blog!” “Build a forum!” “Provide a feed!” These sound like each is the only thing we should do to add content to Web sites. The way to go is to diversify your content. Invest a little here and a little there for a better return [...]
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Email Criticism
September 29th, 2005 |I got an email from an anonymous coward (email bounced) saying that it’s wrong to use a div in the headers. Gee, really? Excuse my ‘tude. I appreciate it when people write in about a mistake of mine, but not when they do it anonymously and with a finger shaking attitude that says, “Wrong-o, buster!” Naturally, [...]
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