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Marketing Tips: How a Blog Can Become Your Best Marketing Tool

Written by Pat Wootton, PromptProofing.com

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A blog may prove to be your best marketing tool; a well-written and actively promoted blog can attract more clients than many other forms of marketing combined while simultaneously establishing your brand and increasing your reputation as an expert in your field.

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Writing Tips: Clarity

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Most of the time, when we write about our business, or we are making a request for something of direct concern to us, we know exactly what we are talking about and what we want to say.

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Grammar Tips: Proper Use of Quotation Marks and Punctuation

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Rules regarding the correct placement of quotation marks differ from country to country. Regardless of the circumstance, periods and commas are always placed inside quotation marks when you follow US style. 

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Writing Tips: Writing for Your Audience

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As with all marketing, when you are writing business materials it pays to know your audience. One-size-fits-all email blasts, for example, generally end up not fitting anyone.

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Book Review: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

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On the surface, What Alice Forgot may seem to have the fixings of classic chicklit: Alice, a 39-year-old married woman, falls while in a step aerobics class, hits her head and wakes up having forgotten the last 10 years of her life.

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Marketing Tips: Walk Your Talk

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Every business owner's aim is to attract customers but they are sometimes so busy with work that they neglect their own image - then wonder why clients are not flocking to their doors.

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Grammar Tips: A Matter of Interest

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If something interests you then it is interesting or you have an interest in it - no problem here. However, if it doesn't interest you - how do you describe your state of mind?

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Book Review: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

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The Power of One was the debut - and best-known - novel of this prolific author who died just a few months ago.

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Grammar Tips: Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year! Or should that be happy new year, or Happy New Year's? And what is the situation if you are talking about an event that will happen in the new year?

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Marketing Tips: Your New Year Marketing Plan

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If you haven't already implemented a marketing plan for 2013, don't panic - it's never too late to start.

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