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Complement Your Sales Writing with Compliments
Once of my most valuable life skills I learned by accident. I was young – around five or six – and my parents had taped a recent television special featuring the Smothers Brothers with the Boston Pops Orchestra. In the opening…
How to Write a Personal Essay (When You Don’t Know What to Write)
It’s the part of college applications you dread: writing a personal essay. The prompts are designed to apply to everyone, but bereft of better guidance at school or maybe just suffering from pressure and terrible writer’s block, you stare at a…