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thehatchet.net

Rated Jul 06 2008 • 1 review • linguistics, words, dictionary, new • thehatchet.net

If you're a self-professed word nerd, this is an event you wait for every couple years as intently as a sportsfan awaits the Superbowl: The Webster's Dictionary New Words Announcement! See which ones made the cut this time around in this great post.
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Rated Jul 05 2008 • 1 review • cell phones, rogers, canada, apple, iphone • blogspot.com

Apple Flips Rogers the Bird A Week Before Canadian iPhone Launch? (Plausible Rumor) FTA: "Yesterday, while the American giant slept, the Canadian telecom industry was a-buzz with information, albeit all of it internal and hush-hush. Here are the juicy tidbits I have managed to glean from my source within Rogers (And I'll let you draw your own conclusions)..."
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Rated Jul 03 2008 • 1 review • marketing, sales, copywriting, objection handling • blogspot.com

Is it ever ok to address your offering's drawbacks in your marketing? FTA: "Your customers are not stupid, and they don't appreciate when you make them feel that way. When you completely ignore obvious, relevant likely objections to your marketing message, it comes off as naive at best and patronizing at worst. If you ignore their tough questions, they'll just find the answers somewhere else. So why not at least try to control that conversation?"
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Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose: 5 Ways...

Rated Jun 27 2008 • 1 review • search, google reader, internet tools • blogspot.com

FTA: "What if we could combine the relevancy of social recommendation filtering with the efficiency and accuracy of Google search? Wouldn't that be the Holy Grail? Well if so, then your chalice awaits Indy, because this harmonic combination is already possible with Google Reader and I'm going to show you how..."
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Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose: The...

Rated Jun 17 2008 • 5 reviews • writing, brevity, twitter • blogspot.com

The ability to communicate with both clarity and concision is an art that is worth mastering. Maybe Twitter can help.
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Rated Jun 10 2008 • 1 review • sales, persuasion, positive words • blogspot.com

"The fact is, whether we like it or not, our minds always make mental associations between words and certain emotions. It's involuntary, it's somewhat inexplicable, but it's also undeniable...So how can you use Positive Words to further Your persuasive pursuits?" Helpful article on how to use positive-connoting words to help strengthen sales, marketing and copywriting endeavours.
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Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose: Writing...

Rated Jun 08 2008 • 1 review • linguistics, writing, tips, english, homonyms • blogspot.com

"If you find it so difficult to remember that "too" and not "to" means "as well", well don't feel obligated to use "too" at all. After all, in addition to "too" and the aforementioned "as well", you can also use "also" or "likewise!" For all you grammar nazis out there, come read this homonym guide, then send your worst-offending friends...
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Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose: Make...

Rated Jun 04 2008 • 2 reviews • internet tools, information overload, social bookmarking, google reader, content discovery • blogspot.com

Easy how-to guide for using Google Reader to find, read and bookmark content on the Web.
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Rated May 19 2008 • 1 review • business, marketing, customer service, branding • blogspot.com

"Collaborative Incompetence is a term I have coined to describe when multiple companies in a niche appear to have come to a short-sighted realization that in order to remain viable, they don't need to be the best-of-breed, they only need to... not be worse than everyone else."
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Smithereens: Productivity, Persuasion and Prose: The Top...

Rated May 17 2008 • 1 review • internet tools, wordpress, blogging, blogger, platforms • blogspot.com

As a new blogger, I sought out the best free hosting platform and was told that Wordpress.com was it. Three days and plenty of hair-pulling later, I ported everything over to Blogger by hand and started fresh. Lest other newbie bloggers make the same mistake I made, here's why I left...
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