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The Most Awesome Resume that Never Got Me the Writing Job

January 23, 2012

Resumes are supposed to be pretty serious things, right? I hadn’t worried about a resume in years since starting Phenomenal Content, but a few months ago, I did try to land a gig with the Cheezburger Network, so I got a little crazy. They never got back to me, and I assume it’s only because [...]

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Spammers Now Offending Bloggers to Get a Reaction?

December 28, 2011

So I like to browse my spam comments before I delete them…just in case there’s a false positive. The most recent wave of spam comments I got was on my recent Merry Christmas video, where I sang a karaoke version of Santa Baby for fun. There was too much negativity in the social media sphere, [...]

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The Irony of Spamming My SEO Cold Calling Post

December 26, 2011

Do you remember way back in August 2009 when I made a post about SEO Cold Calling, aka Contact Form Spam? It was lambasting a company (that I didn’t name) who tried to sell me crappy SEO services by using my copywriting services contact form. Amusingly enough, I got a spam comment on that post a [...]

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Bad Link Request That Tried to Fake the Personal Touch

December 12, 2011

I know that link building is hard. That’s why I don’t do that sort of thing for a living. But if you’re going to do it, at least try to do it right. And by that, I mean: don’t spam people, and when trying to pitch bloggers in a personal manner, don’t try to automate [...]

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Save My Ass – Hire a Blogger/Writer

December 5, 2011

So when I had the concept for this post – Save My Ass – it was because I realized that it’s been five years since the gastroenterologist told me I should come back and see him in five years for another colonoscopy. You see, my mom’s brothers have all had cancerous polyps in their colons. [...]

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Gotta Give This Scammer Points for Creativity

November 17, 2011

Yes, I know this email was an attempt to scam me out of money, but I caught a phrase or two before I deleted it. I’ve gotta give them credit. At least they are getting more creative. I’m going to use bold print to emphasize my favorite passages; comments in italics are my additions. MS [...]

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Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks and 10 Years of Mental Illness

September 11, 2011

Ten years ago, I remember sitting at my computer desk in our old apartment when the phone rang. I have no idea what I was doing at my computer – and the Internet wasn’t like it is today. We may have even had dial-up Internet service at the time, which means I wasn’t online when my [...]

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Trey Pennington, Social Media, and Silently Suffering with Depression

September 8, 2011

Pretty much everyone in the industry now knows that Trey Pennington committed suicide over the weekend. It came as a shock to many people, since Trey’s Twitter feed was full of positivity. He appeared to be making plans to travel to upcoming conferences even the day before he killed himself. Had he already decided to [...]

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Why Spray and Pray PR Pitches are Full of Fail

September 6, 2011

As the owner of a parenting blog – one of those mommy blogs I’m sure you’ve heard about – I receive a high volume of pitches and press releases from PR professionals every day. I must confess that I delete most of them without reading them. But sometimes that little one-sentence preview I can see [...]

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