Monthly Archives: October 2005

Happy Halloween!

Hi there! I’m Winifred, the resident word witch here at WickedWordCraft.com! I keep an eye on things while Angela is working and when she’s away from her computer. In celebration of the third anniversary of Wicked WordCraft, Angela and I … Continue reading

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Sudoku Master for Palm

A few weeks back, my mother told me that my father was into "Sudoku" puzzles. I hadn’t heard of them, and when she told me they were math puzzles, I mentally rolled my eyes and quickly forgot about them.

The next time I went home to visit, my father called me into his office and handed me a paper off his printer tray so fresh that it was still warm to the touch.

"Try it," he ordered, "You can only have the numbers one through nine in any given line vertical or horizontal and each box of nine you can only have one of each number one through nine too."

I whined. I hate number puzzles. I’m a WORD person. I don’t like math. But he said "I’m timing you, I did mine in 40 minutes," — and I can seldom resist that sort of challenge.

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Direct Mail Marketing Tips – What NOT to Do

I accepted a new client last week. He asked me for help with his marketing approach. He was disappointed in his return on a recent direct mail campaign and needed a bit of direction on this and and other marketing issues and projects.

He had done several things right:

1.) He had his assistant hand-address the envelopes.
2.) He had her attach REAL stamps to each envelope.
3.) He had included a small, unique give-away item in each envelope.
4.) He hand-signed each letter.

After sending out several hundred letters over the course of three weeks, not a single response was logged. So he called me… Continue reading

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It Feels Like Winter

Cold weather makes me take a moment to think about life. Life is good. This morning, when I got up (from a toasty-warm bed), it was cold in the cabin. Quite a chill hung in the air.

Then my husband got up and said "Want a fire? Are you cold?" and immediately began the wood-burning stove ritual to get a blazing fire roaring.

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Halloween Surprise – Coming October 31st!! (Be Here)

WickedWordCraft.com turns three years old this month! Although I’ve been working online for more than five years and following theĀ  entrepreneurial path even longer than that… this month is special.

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