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22 Words that Make You Sound Like Everybody Else

My first real writing job was as a copyeditor with a company that produced travel guide magazines (the kind you pick up free in the hotel or airport) for cities across the country. 

(They brought me in to help proofread because a guide for a very large city on the East coast had been published with the word “accommodations” misspelled on every single page of the hotel listings section. I will never misspell that word again in my life.)

It was a wonderful learning and growing experience for me. I’d never been around …

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Brand Voice: What it Is and How to Develop It

“Voice” happens to be my thing. 

In my 20s, during my quarter-life crisis, when I was trying to figure out what to do with myself after it became clear that Hollywood and I didn’t have a future, I had a series of really boring temp jobs, the most mind-numbing of which was answering phones for an exterminating company. 

My entire job was to input data from the forms the actual exterminators brought back, detailing what had been done and how much poison had been applied, and answering phones. I was able to complete the …

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How to Blog Effectively: The Ultimate Guide for Solopreneurs

Last week I went to a local networking meetup group. These kinds of groups generally aren’t full of my ideal audience, but I like to go to this particular one because they always have a speaker, and hearing people like LinkedIn expert Kevin Knebl or Facebook guru Andrea Vahl for free is something I can’t pass up!

Anywho, as we were finishing up, the gentleman sitting next to me, an architect looking to start his own firm, asked me a variation on a question I get a lot:

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How to Speak the 5 Love Languages of Your Blog Readers

 “Hey baby, what’s your love language?”

Sound like a cheesy pick-up line? It totally is.

But it’s also a very cool book called, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts. It was a big hit maybe 10 years ago, and I read it when my hubs and I were first married.

The idea is that everyone has a different “love language” — a way that they prefer to give and receive love and affection — and by speaking to your loved one …

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