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    <title>Writing for doctors, lawyers and CAs without sounding like a pamphlet</title>
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    <description>Most professional websites list everything and explain nothing. How to write for the worried reader.</description>
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    <title>Should your website show prices?</title>
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    <description>Most price increase messages apologise for a paragraph and hide the number. Put the number first.</description>
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    <description>The page where a visitor decides to spend money is usually a form and a map. What to write there instead.</description>
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    <title>Why every Diwali post looks the same, and how to write one that doesn't</title>
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    <title>Email subject lines that get opened without lying</title>
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    <description>Fake Re:, false Urgent, a quick question that isn't. How to get the open without the small lie.</description>
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    <description>Most product pages say premium quality and stop. How to answer the doubts a photo can't.</description>
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    <description>Exclamation marks, apologies and hedges make a business sound unsure. How to spot them, and a ten-minute fix.</description>
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    <description>A company page and a founder's profile do different jobs. What each is for, and who should post what.</description>
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    <description>The first line shows in the inbox before anyone opens the mail. What it has to do, and what wastes it.</description>
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    <description>The paragraph on your Google listing, read by people about to call. What to put in it, and what to leave out.</description>
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    <description>Instagram shows a line or two, then hides the rest. How long a caption should be, post by post.</description>
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    <title>How to give feedback on a draft, so round two is the last</title>
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    <description>Most second drafts miss because the feedback described a feeling, not a fix. What to write in the margin instead.</description>
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    <description>Used as if they were one job. What each one is for, and how to tell which your project needs.</description>
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    <description>It arrives between the family group and the school group. The preview line, the shape, and how often is too often.</description>
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