tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110352922024-03-05T17:41:03.036-05:00WordriderInsights on writing, editing, copywriting, marketing and more. How to win customers and influence people -- through the written word.Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.comBlogger276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-36375938633228252382015-01-16T10:21:00.000-05:002015-01-16T11:52:15.655-05:00Muphry's Law and Poor Little Rich Word<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://hamodia.com/features/eating-words-muphrys-law/">Muphry's Law</a> struck again this week. (Yes that's Muphry, not Murphy. See "<a href="http://hamodia.com/features/eating-words-muphrys-law/">Eating My Own Words</a>.")</span></b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Even though (or was it </span></b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>because?</i>) I proofread it myself, the first line in my column went to print with a catastrophic error: Instead of "You can't be too rich or too thin," the first sentence said, "You can't be too rich or too poor."</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Besides making no sense, it killed the whole lead of the article. Thank Heaven, the layout guy corrected the online article. (I told him I'm going to call him before Yom Kippur to remove some other transgressions for me.)</span></h2>
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</header>“You can’t be too rich or too thin.” Barry Popik, contributor to the <i>Oxford English Dictionary (OED)</i>, and the Sherlock Holmes of etymology, traces this slogan to several disreputable socialites.…<br />
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I just called <a href="http://wordrider.blogspot.com/2013/05/saluting-sarge.html?spref=bl">the Sarge.</a> <br />
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He's not feeling so great; can't hear with his left ear and the right ear isn't so great either.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0712/salute_to_a_liberator2.php3#.VGEPgMkhNpA" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="At Ease" border="0" src="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0712/rist_schiller.jpg" height="200" width="130" /></a>But he's still sharp as a bayonet. As soon as he heard my name, he thanked me for an article about Teddy Roosevelt I sent him a few months ago. And he promised to send me a copy of another article about TR.<br />
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I asked about Veterans Day and he said he doesn't get out much anymore.<br />
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Pull up a chair. I’ve got a story for you. It was 1974. We were living in Yerushalayim, and my parents, <i>z”l,</i> came for Pesach. One day,in the old…<br />
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Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker, was notorious for <br />
carpet-bombing the copy with commas. In James Thurber’s The Years With <br />
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<time class="updated" datetime="2014-09-03T21:22:08+00:00" pubdate="">Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | <span class="hebrew-date">ח' אלול תשע"ד</span></time> </header><br />
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We’ve run out of words. President Obama called the Islamic State’s<br />
beheading of Steven Sotloff, Hy”d, on Tuesday an act of “barbarism.” <br />
Secretary of State John Kerry called it “unfathomable…<br />
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Mad Mimi was just bought by GoDaddy. See <br />
<a href="https://madmimi.com/p/013f25?fe=1&pact=24571828848&plusone_share=true&utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Guess+what%21%3F+GoDaddy+Acquires+Mad+Mimi&utm_campaign=20140820_m121801239_Guess+what%21%3F+GoDaddy+Acquires+Mad+Mimi&utm_term=_2B1#">Guess what!? GoDaddy Acquires Mad Mimi</a><br />
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But the prices and people are staying.<br />
Compare active ingredient in Mad Mimi with Constant Contact.<br />
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If you're still sending your marketing email from your own email client, see <a href="http://wordrider.blogspot.com/2010/02/you-might-be-spammer-without-knowing-it.html">this post</a>. I wrote that before I switched to Mad Mimi. They are now my weapon of choice.<br />
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<a href="http://hamodia.com/2014/05/27/microsoft-protection-racket/">Microsoft Protection Racket</a></h2>
<time class="updated" datetime="2014-05-27T22:31:54+00:00" pubdate="">Tuesday, May 27, 2014 | <span class="hebrew-date">כ"ז אייר תשע"ד</span></time> </header><br />
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Pull up a chair. I’m going to let you in on a family legend. One <br />
day in the 1930s, a sales rep of the Abe Reles organization came into <br />
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<time class="updated" datetime="2014-04-08T17:04:36+00:00" pubdate="">Tuesday, April 8, 2014 | <span class="hebrew-date">ח' ניסן תשע"ד</span></time> </header>
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OK… so your best friend — who works on 47th St. — calls you up to
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;">They were the most unlikely of friends. As children, in another world, death brought them together. Now life brought them together once again</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://rockland.lohudblogs.com/2009/11/08/camp-shanks-memorial/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7E3ciXlwpa4/UaOFLgNDDJI/AAAAAAAAHow/JjsvAYWP8cI/s200/rf110809blog039.jpg" width="133" /></a>I just got off the phone with the Sarge.<br /> I called to salute Sgt. Arnold Rist on Memorial Day. Bless, him, even though he couldn't sound Taps anymore, he was out there in the wind yesterday, honoring his buddies in arms. If you don't know the Sarge, here's my tribute: </div>
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<a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1111/salute_to_a_liberator.php3#.UaOEpJyLhel" target="_blank">Salute to a Liberator</a><br />
and a postscript: <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0712/salute_to_a_liberator2.php3#.UaOGmJyLhel" target="_blank">At Ease</a><br />
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Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-47285818079424036162013-02-10T16:21:00.002-05:002013-02-10T16:23:27.341-05:00The most important thing I learned from David Ogilvy<a href="http://www.infomarketingblog.com/every-secret-but-one-in-this-book-david-ogilvy-ad-for-confessions-of-an-advertising-man/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.infomarketingblog.com/images/David_Ogilvy_Every_Secret_But_One.jpg" width="260" /></a>I never met David Ogilvy. But he had a <a href="http://wordrider.blogspot.com/search?q=ogilvy" target="_blank">great impact</a> on my career.<br />
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<a href="http://www.strategy-business.com/article/09103?pg=all" target="_blank">Kenneth Roman</a> reveals the most important thing we can all learn from David Ogilvy:<br />
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<span class="content1">Being
edited by Ogilvy was like being operated on by a great surgeon who
could put his hand on the only tender organ in your body. You could <i>feel</i>
him put his finger on the wrong word, the soft phrase, the incomplete
thought. But he had no pride of authorship, and he could be quite
self-critical. Someone found a personally annotated copy of one of his
books in which he had written cross comments about his own writing:
“Rubbish. Rot! Nonsense.” He would send his major documents around for
comment, with a note: “Please improve.”</span></blockquote>
Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-80838213994311357472013-01-09T16:02:00.001-05:002013-01-09T16:02:38.019-05:00Guy Kawasaki Goes APE on How to Publish a Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why would a celebrity author, at a major publisher, choose to jump ship and self publish his next book?<br />
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If you didn't hear of Guy Kawasaki, you heard of Apple. And if you heard of Apple, it is probably because of Guy Kawasaki.<br />
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Guy (disclosure: I'm not buddies with Mr. Kawasaki. But there are some people who it's more natural to call by their first name. It's also easier to spell. So please allow me the familiarity).... As I was saying before I interrupted myself, Guy might be called the High Priest of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelism_marketing" target="_blank">Evangelical marketing</a>. That's somewhere between word of mouth marketing and word of <i>soul </i>marketing. It tends to happen to Apple employees and customers. You don't just buy a Mac or an iPad. You "convert" to it.<br />
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Guy was the guy who made it happen. He is the poster child for this new kind of marketing. His previous books <a href="http://www.guykawasaki.com/the-art-of-the-start/" target="_blank"><i>Art of the Start</i></a> and <a href="http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/" target="_blank"><i>Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions</i></a> tell the story and tell how you can become an evangelist.<br />
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Always tuned in to his followers (they're not just "readers"), Guy was horrified when his megapublisher could not perform the seemingly simple task of providing 500 free ebooks for a high-tech company. In response, Guy decided to self publish his next book. Veteran writer and computer geek that he is, he thought it would be snap. It wasn't.<br />
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The adventure--and more important--the secret handshake--is given over in the new book Guy co-authored with Shawn Welch: <i><a href="http://apethebook.com/">APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur | How to Publish a Book</a></i><br />
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If you've ever thought about writing a book--especially an ebook--do yourself a favor and get a copy. You will be enlightened.Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-49885314932266066942012-11-12T13:35:00.000-05:002012-11-12T13:35:47.870-05:00Salute to a hero on Veterans Day.<br />
God bless all those who keep us free!<br />
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Here is a replay of my post about one of those heros, from <a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/">JewishWorldReview.com</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial; font-size: medium;"> <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0712/salute_to_a_liberator2.php3"> AT EASE </a></span></b> <br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"> By Mordechai Schiller </span> </span><br />
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Last November, JWR ran a profile of Dr. Arnold Rist, 65th Armored
Infantry Battalion, 20th Armored Division, one of the liberators of the
Dachau concentration camp. The article received an unprecedented amount
of reader response. And if you didn't read it then, you should now by
clicking <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1111/salute_to_a_liberator.php3" target="_self"><b>HERE</b></a>. (Letters for this living hero still encouraged). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;">Today, we offer a follow-up to the original article. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0712/salute_to_a_liberator2.php3">AT EASE by Mordechai Schiller</a>Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-39368590840149193162012-10-22T11:25:00.001-04:002012-10-22T11:25:33.769-04:00The Lewis Carroll guide to political debate....<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-blJhrfvouUC&lpg=PA213&ots=BvButVQL1j&dq=%22That%27s%20a%20great%20deal%20to%20make%20one%20word%20mean%2C%22%20Alice%20said%20in%20a%20thoughtful%20tone.%20%22When%20I%20make%20a%20word%20do%20a%20lot%20of%20work%20like%20that%2C%22%20said%20Humpty%20Dumpty%2C%20%22I%20always%20pay%20it%20extra.%22&pg=PA213#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">There's glory for you!'</a><br />
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`I don't know what you mean by "glory,"' Alice said.
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Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't --
till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for
you!"'
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`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice
objected.
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`When <i>I</i> use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful
tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor
less.'
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`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you <i>can</i> make words mean
so many different things.'
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`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -
- that's all.'
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Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute
Humpty Dumpty began again. `They've a temper, some of them --
particularly verbs, they're the proudest -- adjectives you can do
anything with, but not verbs -- however, <i>I</i> can manage the whole
of them! Impenetrability! That's what <i>I</i> say!'
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`Would you tell me, please,' said Alice `what that means?`
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`Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty,
looking very much pleased. `I meant by "impenetrability" that
we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well
if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't
mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
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`That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a
thoughtful tone.
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`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty
Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.'
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`Oh!' said Alice. She was too much puzzled to make any other
remark.
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`Ah, you should see `em come round me of a Saturday night,'
Humpty Dumpty went on, wagging his head gravely from side to
side: `for to get their wages, you know.'
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(Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you
see I can't tell <i>you</i>.)
Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-58205344218249144852012-09-24T11:16:00.001-04:002012-09-24T11:16:31.916-04:00The Whistler on Yom Kippur<i>In case you missed this before--or even if you didn't. The best
stories are meant to be told over and over. You learn that from your
children. We can learn a lot from children.</i><br />
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As we go into <a href="http://www.artscroll.com/Books/K-RSKH.html">Yom Kippur</a>, let me wish you a sweet year of health, happiness, peace, prosperity, and <i><a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/nachas" target="_blank">nachas</a></i>.<br />
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Jewish or not, New Yorkers know about Yom Kippur, or as Mickey Mantle once called it, "<a href="http://njjewishnews.com/kaplanskorner/2010/10/29/the-mantle-koufax-connection/" target="_blank">Yom Koufax</a>."
Public schools are closed. The centers of commerce and finance wind
down to a halt. There's a sense of new hopes and beginnings.... and even
a certain gritty spirituality in the New York air. Some 250 years ago, a
little boy in <a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10815-miedzyboz-medzhibozh" target="_blank">Medzhibozh</a>, Ukraine learned about Yom Kippur in a most unusual way.<br />
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To read the story, see <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1005/schiller_neilah.php3">Whistling at N'eila</a>.<a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1005/schiller_neilah.php3"> </a>Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-11714956560482606142012-09-13T12:54:00.000-04:002012-09-13T12:54:21.591-04:00Happy New YearHere's wishing you and yours a year of peace, health, joy, and prosperity.<br />
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<a href="http://drybonesblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/high-holidays-1991.html#.UFIK5FeKyxU.blogger">High Holidays (1991) - the Dry Bones Blog</a>Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11035292.post-44725013196604531522012-07-03T23:27:00.000-04:002012-07-03T23:27:40.854-04:00AT EASE -- an American StoryHappy Birthday America. And God bless all those who keep us free!<br />
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Here is a story about one of them, from today's <a href="http://jewishworldreview.com/">JewishWorldReview.com</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #990033; font-family: times new roman,times,serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>first person/ follow-up</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial; font-size: medium;"> <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0712/salute_to_a_liberator2.php3"> AT EASE </a></span></b> <br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;"> By Mordechai Schiller </span> </span><br />
<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Helvetica,Arial; font-size: xx-small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="middle" alt="" border="1" height="267" src="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/images/vet_kid_salute.jpg" width="400" /><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;"> Back in November, JWR ran a profile of Dr. Arnold Rist, 65th Armored Infantry Battalion, 20th Armored Division, one of the liberators of the Dachau concentration camp. The article received an unprecedented amount of reader response. And if you didn't read it then, you should now by clicking <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1111/salute_to_a_liberator.php3" target="_self"><b>HERE</b></a>. (Letters for this living hero still encouraged). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: x-small;">Today, we offer a follow-up to the original article. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0712/salute_to_a_liberator2.php3">AT EASE by Mordechai Schiller</a>Mordechai (Morty) Schillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15417362923908075463noreply@blogger.com0