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Overcome your fear of public speaking with this one change.
The fear of public speaking is a social anxiety disorder known as glossophobia; glosso being Greek for tongue and phobia being Greek for fear. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that more than 70% of people have a fear of public speaking, which ranks glossophobia only behind thanatophobia (fear of death), acrophobia (fear of heights) and arachnophobia…… READ MORE
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Hiring a copyeditor? This is what to expect…
Hiring a copyeditor can be the best decision for your messaging. Yes, a copyeditor will help you maintain your credibility by finding the spelling, structural and punctuation errors you may have missed as you put your piece together. But if you get your copyeditor to do what they do best, they’ll make your message better in other…… READ MORE
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Five Ways to Improve Tech Copywriting
Tech copywriting is a funny tightrope because you have two audiences with vastly different knowledge bases: the techies and the strategists. The techies want the specs. They want them quickly. And they don’t need explanations.… READ MORE
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Design Agencies Are Leaving Millions of Dollars On The Table
Designers at design agencies have a unique ability to stare at copy for days at a time and never know what it says. To them, it’s another graphic element, as it should be. But what… READ MORE
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Companies that care about customers use a copyeditor
Marcus Gee wrote a great piece in the Globe and Mail about dangling modifiers. This line jumped off the page for us: The smallest hint of confusion can give the reader “a breach in time… READ MORE
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You are what you post: A social media warning
Social media is the great equalizer of our time. It gives everyone the same opportunity to share their views, thoughts, wisdoms and gripes — and people take full advantage of that on a regular basis.… READ MORE
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Copywriting showcase: Toronto Pearson Airport
A few years ago, the Greater Toronto Airport Authority (they run Toronto Pearson) had a problem with noise complaints. They needed a copywriting team to give them messaging they could point people to and say… READ MORE
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Lyrics: Copywriting Set to Music
Like great copywriting, great lyrics will make you pay attention.Come mothers and fathers throughout the land,And don’t criticize what you can’t understand.Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.Your old road is rapidly aging.Please… READ MORE
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Kawhi Leonard’s Shot — Heard Round The World
2.7 million Canadians watched Game 7 between the Toronto Raptors and Philadelphia 76ers, and all hopefully got to see the Kawhi Leonard shot. It was magic — one of the great sporting moments in our city, and… READ MORE
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The Writing Revolution: 2005 to ????
Social media has done quite a number on the English language. In less than two decades, centuries of writing rules, conventions and accepted norms, most of which we were taught to treat as carved in… READ MORE
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Oscar-winning Movies for Writing Fans
You hear “Oscar-winning movies” and your mind immediately goes to the big four: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director. They’re the “majors,” the awards you sit through the whole telecast to get to.… READ MORE