WritingThoughts

Are you counting on your web copy for leads and conversions? If you are, you’ll want to pay close attention to this post. Not every business that publishes copy online gets it right. You won’t attract customers unless you really understand content marketing. In this post I’ll list ten common content mistakes.

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Editing is hard work. I read complaints about editors on forums and on blogs all the time. While I realize that sometimes a particular editor may be unfair, there are other times when I just have to wonder what the writer was thinking. The way I look at it, if someone is paying you to […]

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Yes! I do write blog posts, web content, and articles for others. You can hire Laura Spencer from WritingThoughts for your next writing project. If you already have a rough draft written, I can help with that too. I can perform heavy or light editing, proofreading. I can even help you further develop your draft […]

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They are at it again – those misguided individuals who claim that they can write a quality 500-word article in five minutes. Most experienced writers realize this claim is ridiculous, so normally I wouldn’t even mention it except for one sad fact: a few unfortunate companies have been taken in by the so-called writers who […]

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Red ink means something very different for writers than it does for accountants. For accountants, red ink means the company is losing money. For writers, red ink is the color of corrections. I might also add, for this writer at least, red ink is the color of learning to become a better writer. My daughter […]

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Yvonne at Grow Your Writing Business has tagged me for the recycling meme. This is a meme that started at William Tully’s Logical emotions blog. Since it’s a sleepy Friday morning (well, actually it is Thursday night), today seems like the perfect day for it. (I’ll cross my fingers and hope my links work since […]

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Today marks the six month anniversary of this blog. I’m proud of (and a bit surprised at) the progress I’ve made. This blog now has a Google Page Rank of 3, a Technorati rank of 29,263 (give or take since it’s constantly fluctuating), a Technorati authority of 165, an Alexa rank of 384,365 (note to […]

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