If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of your time cutting and pasting text from websites. I often take content from this blog and my main copywriting website and put it into articles, which I then upload to article directories to help with SEO and getting the word out about what a great [...]

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One of the most important things you should do with your website is to make it sticky. In other words, don’t make it easy for people to leave; keep them looking at what you’ve done and you’ll stand a better chance of getting business from them. Here’s one incredibly easy way of doing that: if [...]

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There are all sorts of reasons why you might want to have a button to press that immediately zaps the screens you’re currently looking at. And not all of them involve your boss looking over your shoulder at the 18-and-over subscription sites you’re thinking of joining: You could be the human resources manager dealing with [...]

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Both "while" and "whilst" carry the meaning "during the time that (something happened)". For example: I read a book while I was on the exercise bike. Body’s healthy, mind’s wealthy! He talked on his mobile whilst he was on the train. Everyone hated him. They can also be used to mean "although" or "whereas": While [...]

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In this post I’m going to tell you what I do when I get cold-called and when the caller won’t take no for an answer. Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t have anything against people trying to sell me things. Everyone’s got to make a living, right? And occasionally (once every hundred calls, maybe) [...]

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