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Quick updates on my work projects and personal life, with some photos sprinkled in.
    Diary Update from a Writer for Hire

    February 28, 2024

    Hiya fans of content creation, branding, marketing strategy, naming, thought leadership… what else is it...

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    Content marketing roundup: summer edition

    September 19, 2023

    This summer was unexpectedly busy. Here is a look at a few of the projects...

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    A Very Good Day: Guest Speaking at Wesleyan University about Branded Content

    October 19, 2022

    Well, this is great news. Based on feedback on last year’s presentation, Dr. Rachel Besharat...

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    Branded Content August Roundup

    August 31, 2022

    School is back in session here in Ridgefield, CT. Where did the time go? August...

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    The Time I Got to be a Branded Content Professor for a Day

    January 7, 2022

    When branded content is done right, everybody “wins”: the audience, the sponsor, and the publisher....

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    A Behind-the-Scenes Look at What Is Basically the World’s Best Project

    October 20, 2019

    For the second year running, I had the pleasure of attending and covering the Inc....

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    A Ghostwriter’s Musings on Ghostwriting

    June 4, 2019

    When people ask what I do for a living, I tell them I am a...

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    We Earned Our Editor Credit on Amazon

    December 13, 2018

    Last spring, JR Lisk helped Brian Jones, founder of Nuts & Bolts of PR, create...

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    A Layperson’s Guide to GDPR

    June 13, 2018

    If you are a marketer, publisher or digital business, GDPR probably makes you shutter. For...

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    The Surprisingly Tricky Task Of Writing Company Summaries

    August 18, 2017

    Helping a new company boil down what it does into a few sentences is a...

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    Naming a Tech Business? Read This First.

    February 8, 2017

    The ad tech space is notoriously crowded, which makes finding a good name particularly challenging,...

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    What You Don’t Know about Ad Blocking

    March 24, 2016

    I can see all sides of the ad blocking conundrum. On one hand, we are...

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