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[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Hey, now! Don’t roll your eyes at my idea 😊 I’m not talking about being one of those people with a checklist for their checklists. I’m talking about the two or three...
(This post was originally published before I had a website where it...
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Okay. I admit it. I don’t mess up files very often, because I usually follow my process. Only ... this time, I didn't. Translated: “It was [almost literally] crying jag time.”...
I'm open to saving editing bucks when I can. Although most...
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] I don't provide a lot of grammar-type Quick Wins nowadays (let me know if you'd like to see those, again), but I thought it was time to throw this one into the mix. In my...
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[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] OK now. Seriously. Am I the only person fed up with the cumbersome ‘Save As’ list in MS Office products? That puppy seems to go on forEVer. In reality, this is our 'Recent...
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Once upon a time, the world had typewriters. You typed a page, gave it to a client, and it did not morph into something different. Then, God created the people ... who...
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] [ Executive summary: avoid overusing the words on the 2nd bulleted list. 🙂 ] It doesn't matter if we are authoring a technical manual, non-fiction book on X process, or a...
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[ My Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Yeees, I know LinkedIn® has a way to add bullet points to your About section. But the ones I've seen are unprofessional ('cutesy' icons, really), and LinkedIn keeps...
The first rule of websites? "Never send your reader away from your website." Yep, that rule. The one I am about to break, so please come back. If you work on a contract basis, you may have considered: should you use the term 'freelance' to describe your...
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Two weeks ago, my talented VA created the infographic I vowed to generate. Two years ago. In all my spare time, right? When October rolled around this year, I did offer you my post on this subject: 4 money-saving steps to your first draft But I still didn't...
Enjoy this first post from the new website! Thanks to the team at for non-overwhelming the end of 2020 for me. Such a blessing. 'Newsjacking' is grabbing a story...
It's an unhappy moment. An editor tells an author they need the first draft copy before editing can begin. The writer is dumbfounded. Isn't that what they emailed? No. They sent months (or years) of musings. Maybe the file was run through spell check. But it's...
When my friend Shawn and I talked about meeting reminders, she gave me another excellent idea to research and share with you: “I’d like to find the best way to follow-up and thank clients. Has the etiquette around thank-you notes changed?” Funny you should ask. When I...
One great thing about asking your subscribers for blog post topics? They come up with countless ideas. Thanks to Margie G., an executive assistant for a racing team, we'll consider useful meeting reminders. The question that started it all As you might imagine,...
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