Nanette Levin

Category: Writing

  • Seven quick tips for effective writing strategies – and cooking

    Seven quick tips for effective writing strategies – and cooking

    Keep it simple. Showing your cooking prowess can be a lot of fun occasionally, as can demonstrating your writing skills in a masterpiece (sadly, readers rarely share your opinion on what constitutes your best work). But if you do it every day, you’ll get burnt out and your diners will tire of the glut. Usually…

  • Writing ideas for the uninspired – seven quick writing tips

    Writing ideas for the uninspired – seven quick writing tips

    Even seasoned professional writers experience writer’s block. It’s inevitable if you put too much pressure on producing vs. enjoying. You’re doing it wrong if it’s not fun. Below are some writing tips that might help your prose flowing.

  • Smart strategic marketing: do what you say

    Smart strategic marketing: do what you say

    If someone promoting themselves as a social technology expert can’t get their own web house in order – with the front door locked for entry to boot – the confidence level of the prospect is shattered from the onset. Is it fair? Probably not. Is it dumb? Yep. Paying attention to your prospect’s experience should…

  • Good writers get personal

    It’s a different kind of listening than what most people do. Instead of letting your head focus on your rebuttal or on how the comments relate to you, try to let go and get immersed in the mindset of another.

  • Writers could learn a lot about being effective from great public speakers

    “You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.” —George Singleton Concise writing is an art. Hopefully someday, marketers, advertisers and copy writers will all converge on this ideal. It starts, but then we get drawn back…

  • The Ultimate Blog Challenge

    I don’t usually need motivation to write (it’s what I do for a living and something I truly enjoy), but figured I’d take this Ultimate Blog Challenge to commit to daily blog posts this month. Don’t expect this kind of volume after July. Still, it seemed like a good goal with the launch of this…

  • Having fun with writing projects

    If you dread marketing or writing and seek an honest, talented provider, feel you don’t have the skills but want to learn or have a couple of projects you need to get done but lack the time to make it so, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll offer free tips periodically to those following…