by Margot Lester | Best of Our Blog
Emergency medical leave, time management tips, kangaroo words, small talk advice, and ableist language. Based on your clicks, those are the hot topics from the first half of 2024. Join me in the way-back machine to revisit these gems. And as always, thanks for...
by Margot Lester | Best of Our Blog
Our top posts this quarter focused on time management, word choice, nature journaling and more. How to estimate your time more accurately This year I launched a new training module on time management for content creators. One of the core elements is estimating the...
by Margot Lester | Best of Our Blog, Writing/How to Write
Content marketers and others writers were looking for concrete and easy-to-apply tactics for more effective communication in 2023. That's based on clicks and time-on-site data for The Word Factory blog. Word choice was the most popular topic on our blog last year,...
by Margot Lester | Best of Our Blog
Let's revisit the most-read posts from Q3. As ever, thanks for finding value in what we do. Writing improvement tip: deploy visual verbs "Verbs! Yeah. That's what's happening." Ok, if you're young, you probably have no idea what just happened. Whatever. This post,...
by Margot Lester | Best of Our Blog
Writing advice was the most popular topic for the first half of 2023. Our readers really dug into tips on how to scrap state-of-being verbs and how to improve concision, highlighting a few of the issues facing content creators and brand journalists. And this it's a...
by Margot Lester | Best of Our Blog, What-Not
Want to create more effective content? Check out our most-read posts from last year, which include our definition of content and our advice on organization, quality, email marketing and hiring a writing coach. Two essays also garnered a lot of interest, including my...
