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Are you struggling with how to write something? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a professional writer’s input to make it the best, snappiest copy possible?
My friend Patrick McLean of Good Words, Right Order has launched a great new service called Boom! Headline. It’s like a help desk for copywriting: You send him something you’re working on, and he will send you back a critique and his suggestions. This will help you get unstuck or quite likely find a better way of saying what you’re trying to convey.
As I example, I sent this gem through:
What hath God wrought?
A few minutes later, I got this back:
It’s good, but could be a little archaic, depending on your audience. Here are some suggestions:
Cost: For now, it’s pay-what-you-think-it’s-worth. You’ll want to earmark a slush fund to run stuff by Patrick—he’s that good.
BuiltWith was likely built with Web geeks in mind…which is why I love it. Using this site, you can glean a lot of key information about the infrastructure of anyone’s website.
The types of information you can gather using BuiltWith includes:
For web developers and marketers especially, this can give you a lot of clues about a company’s level of sophistication.
Cost: Free
You say Po-TA-to, I say Po-TAH-to…so who’s correct?
Turn to Forvo to learn the proper pronunciation of any word—even something crazy like pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism.
Forvo has a lot of neat features for word nerds:
Cost: Free