LinkedIn recently analyzed 187 million user profiles to see which words are most commonly used. Turns out professionals use many of the same words to describe themselves. Here are the top 10 most overused words and phrases found on LinkedIn profiles:
Continue readingIn the fall of 2008, I was frustrated with how I was keeping track of the mailing addresses of my friends and family members, not to mention my growing list of clients. My wife and I both had addresses written down on bits of paper and in notebooks. And I’d saved a couple client addresses […]
Continue readingThe first rule of advertising is this: Make sure you have a good product to advertise. Because if what you’re selling isn’t any good, you’re going to have a tough go of it. And even if you do manage to sell a few units, it’s all going to come back to bite you when your […]
Continue readingI’m booked solid with copywriting projects right now. Won’t be back up for air until after Christmas at the earliest. Nevertheless, I wanted to share a free tool I started using this week. Learned about it from my friend Matt Fox. It’s a free online “egg timer.”
Continue readingThe Saturday after Thanksgiving we rounded up my side of the family for some family pictures. We met out by the historic red barn in our small town of Parker, Colorado, and my brother-in-law took the pictures with his digital SLR. It’d been a few years since we’d done a big family photo. But we […]
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