Posts Tagged ‘ blogging ’

How To Build A Social Media Strategy: 5 Tips For Businesses Getting Started

We’re all experimenting. Even the bloggers and Facebook users who look like they know what they’re doing are just experimenting, so if you feel a little fumbly, remember that use of social media as a marketing tool is in its infancy. Don’t let anybody tell you there’s only one way to use Yelp or Pinterest. [ READ MORE ]

Three Sexy Business Writing Tips

April may as well be over, and I’m looking forward to next month’s Small Business Week events in San Francisco.  No doubt, attendants will be discussing new marketing technology like blogging, tweeting, texting, and yelping and how they can increase small business sales in the new economy. These strategies require writing confidence and lots of [ READ MORE ]

Day 22: Flying Blind

Today’s Word Count Goal: 43,565 Today’s Word Count So-Far: 37,025 Total Word Count Goal: 50,000 When birds fly forward, they are not at all looking in the same direction they’re moving. Instead, they watch the passing scenery, like a passenger in a car. Birds fly blind. From now on when I’m writing first drafts in [ READ MORE ]

Day 5 observations, a movie, and another blog

Today’s Word Count Goal: 14750 Today’s Word Count So-Far: 8811 Total Word Count Goal: 50,000 I know much more about pigeons than I ever did before. Today I caught myself stalking a fine, dark-gray specimen in circles in a gutter on Mission Street. And I’m stretching my imagination much more than I’ve asked it to [ READ MORE ]

My Pre-NaNoWriMo to-do list

Today’s Word Count Goal: 0 Today’s Word Count So-Far: 0 Total Word Count Goal: 50,000       post to blog (check) get manicure final touches on newsletter final touches on NaNoWriMo page put novel #1 away finance meeting with wife clear desk (check) make home office client-ready do laundry buy Halloween candy take free [ READ MORE ]

These ones almost snuck by: high school friends, verb tenses, submissive butches, and demonstrative pronouns

Pardon me, for this blog post contains sexually explicit examples or content. If you are under the age of 18 or just uncomfortable with sexually explicit material, you may want to check out one of these sites about grammar and writing instead. Last month, a new idea struck my blog via Facebook like lightning from [ READ MORE ]

Sexy Verbs: -ly adverbs

In December, I posted about Strong Verbs, promising to follow that lesson on Passive Voice with three more: -ly adverbs fuzzy verbs wuzzy verbs An interesting blogging phenomenon emerged after that: I started getting traffic from people who googled the phrase “sexy verbs.” Sexy verbs?! Why didn’t I think of that? Of course writers are [ READ MORE ]

Hot Blog

My business has been knocking me around a little lately. A new potential client referrer deemed my blog NSFW and disappeared. A corporate client took 18 months to pay me for an extensive job I finished overnight. I announced my Get Fresh! content lab for bloggers and entrepreneurs and then fell behind on posting to [ READ MORE ]

Good Writing and Respectful Confrontation

Because I edit writing for a living, a lot of people ask me questions about how to define good writing. I avoid these questions because I’m not interested in judging writing. I’m interested in writing that communicates the writer’s intent. I’m interested in communication. Joe Weston is interested in communication too. A fine communicator, actor, [ READ MORE ]

Maureen Futtner and Associates Offers Uplifting Social Media Tips

Last week, I attended a fantastic workshop at the LGBT Center. Thank you, Ken Stram and the Center’s Economic Development Program for bringing this free event to my community! And thanks, colleagues Sueann Mark and Dorothy Pang, for suggesting I make my notes available. Here they are. Maureen’s PR for the People mission is clear–on [ READ MORE ]

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