Here are the links I shared this week that people liked the most. It’s been a busy week. :) Comma splices: How to knock this opponent out cold 24 Typography Terms Every Marketer Should Know 7 Practical Ways to Find Content Your Followers Will Love Use this simple trick to smash writer’s block 31 Advanced… Continue reading Hot Pepper Highlights: 7 November 2014
Author: Kim Siever
I am a copywriter and copyeditor. I blog on writing and social media tips mostly, but I sometimes throw in my thoughts about running a small business.
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3 super easy tricks anyone can use to increase Twitter engagement
From time to time, you’ll see people note when they’ve passed a milestone of followers on their social media account. In fact, a YouTuber I subscribe to published a video yesterday pointing out (quite excitedly, I might add) that she’d passed 1 million subscribers. Followers are an important part of succeeding on social media, but… Continue reading 3 super easy tricks anyone can use to increase Twitter engagement
Spaces after periods: one or two?
I have edited all sorts of documents over the last 28 years. I couldn’t even begin to count how many pages that’d be. Just in the last year and a half that I’ve been in business full-time, I’ve edited at laest a thousand pages. One common correction I make is changing two spaces following a period to… Continue reading Spaces after periods: one or two?
Hot Pepper Highlights: 31 October 2014
Here are the links I shared this week that people liked the most: Difference between insure and ensure It’s No Longer a Question Whether to Use Social Media for Customer Service Here’s Why There’s No Dislike Button on Facebook 8 Types of Photos You Should Never Use on Your LinkedIn Profile 5 ways to wake… Continue reading Hot Pepper Highlights: 31 October 2014
6 things you must do when starting a company social media account
Businesses today have a lot of pressure to get on social media. Customers demand it, competitors take advantage of it, and even personal social media use encourages it. If your company isn’t on social media, but you’ve been considering it, don’t jump into it just quite yet. At least not until you’ve read this post.… Continue reading 6 things you must do when starting a company social media account
Do you use these two words that aren’t words?
Technically, the words I’m about to list are words. People use them in everyday speech. In fact, one of them has been in use since at least the 18th century. Actual examples that aren’t words would be things like juritaly and hopikilre, both of which I just made up. Anyhow, so what are the two… Continue reading Do you use these two words that aren’t words?
Hot Pepper Highlights: 24 October 2014
Here are the links I shared this week that people liked the most: My 10 most popular grammar posts Faulty parallelism: what it is and how to fix it 5 Things You Should Be Doing on LinkedIn Why Are These the Top 10 Hardest Languages in the World? Difference between than and then Ignore these… Continue reading Hot Pepper Highlights: 24 October 2014
A 6-minute run-through of the new Pinterest analytics tool
Feeling a bit overwhelmed with the new Pinterest analytics tool? Watch this short video to find out all about this robust update.
Are you using “myself” incorrectly?
Myself is a reflexive pronoun. It is used to reflect back to the subject of a sentence. For example, in the sentence “I gave myself the day off“, “myself” reflects back to the subject “I”. On the other hand, in a sentence like “Joe, Bill, Jim and myself went to the game last night“, “myself”… Continue reading Are you using “myself” incorrectly?
Hot Pepper Highlights: 17 October 2014
Here are the links I shared this week that people liked the most: 24 People Who Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Decorate Cakes Why I use the Oxford comma Difference between sitting and seating Top Holiday Social Media Trends for 2014 113-Year-Old Woman Lies About Her Age to Join Facebook Absolutely! Jimmy Fallon Breaks Down the… Continue reading Hot Pepper Highlights: 17 October 2014