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Are You Getting These Common Words Wrong?
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- August 18, 2023
No CommentsNot to embarrass anyone on this distribution list, but I came across this in a client’s guest column the other day. He was a big proponent of AI, Grammarly and SpellChecker, by the way: “In principal, the judge’s decision should not effect the outcome.” Affect vs. Effect: These homophones confuse many, especially when writing quickly.
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Do You Struggle With ‘For Example’ When Writing or Presenting?
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- June 12, 2023
Smart people often have difficulty explaining things simply. They may have a deep understanding of the subject matter and find it difficult to distill that knowledge into layman’s terms. They may be so familiar with the problem that they assume others understand it as well, and fail to realize that they need to explain it
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You Don’t Have Writer’s Block
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- May 29, 2023
Over the past week, I’ve had several conversations with clients about why they haven’t been able to get the ball rolling on their next content piece. I get it. You’re busy closing out the month. You’re trying to get some R&R over the Holiday weekend. Just don’t tell me you have “writer’s block.” Most of
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Baseball: The National Past (It’s) Time
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- April 21, 2023
With all the problems in the world today, the last thing we need are billionaire team owners squabbling with millionaire ballplayers over money. With Opening Day and the first week of the Major League Baseball season canceled, fans and viewers may not return if and when the owner-player dispute is settled. With a “minimum
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What March Madness Teaches Us About Investing Bias
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- March 16, 2023
Hard to believe, but the annual NCAA men’s Division I basketball tournament is upon us. The national championship of college basketball (aka “March Madness”) is the ultimate three-week long reality show. Where else can little known universities (aka small cap growth stocks) such as St. Peters, Loyola of Chicago, Murray State, Weber State and Florida
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What If We Forgot to Have the Recession?
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- January 12, 2023
Ain’t nobody got time for that! Experts have been warning us about a recession for over a year, but maybe we’re too busy to notice. As Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins of viral YouTube fame would say: “Ain’t nobody got time for that.” The unemployment rate of about 3.7% was at or near a 50-year low.
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2023 Could Suck. Don’t Let It
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- December 29, 2022
Not to dampen the Holiday spirit, but 2023 is not shaping up to be a banner year. We’re heading into a recession. Inflation and wages are still too high. The Fed will continue raising rates near-term. That means continued headwinds for the stock market, the housing market and for borrowers. Meanwhile, we have a divided
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Test Drive Resolutions Now (or they won’t stick in ’23)
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- December 5, 2022
Oscar Wilde once said: “Good resolutions are simply checks that people draw on a bank where they have no account.” As humans, we’re not very good at keeping promises to ourselves. Take New Year’s resolutions. Year after year we promise ourselves: “After the Holidays I’ll get my fitness/finances/waistline/relationships back on track.” And what happens? They
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Finding Your Inner Writer’s Voice
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- November 15, 2022
8 powerful tips Have you ever listened to yourself on an answering machine message or cell phone voice recorder? Pretty cringeworthy, right? Well, that’s what it’s like when you don’t read back your written work to yourself before posting it lor publishing it. Sure, those words on the screen are yours, but it doesn’t really
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Are You a Writer or an Editor? Take Quiz
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- October 20, 2022
Many of you consider yourselves left-brained “numbers people.” But that doesn’t mean you can’t be a more confident writer or content shaper. The two skills are not mutual exclusive. In fact, you didn’t get to where you are today without having solid right-brained communication skills. What’s amazing to me is that many of you think
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