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How to Ensure Your Website is Totally Gooey & Super Sticky

This time around, I’m going to focus on Content. Content makes a website. Quality content makes excellent websites. So here are three quick ways to help you improve your website content and make sure they do what they’re supposed to – convince your customers you can help them solve their problems! Content is the key [...]

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Why This Appeal Email Failed

Do you know why half of the emails (OK, maybe more than half – maybe 99%) of emails sent out from charity bodies or NGOs get deleted even before they get forwarded? Reasons People Don’t Read Your Emails It’s because (drum roll people and let’s get the answers): …they’re badly written. …the emails are a [...]

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Gobsmacked!

I’ve always been awed by how fast and furious Korean skincare and cosmetic brands infiltrate our Malaysian shores. It started with the BB Cream craze and I think the “madly in love with all things Korean” have yet to abate. Once in a while, my cousin and I would go makeup shopping. Top of her [...]

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Get Inside A Writer’s Mind

If you’ve always wanted to write that bestselling novel, this is probably the best place to get to. Robert‘s been a longtime client of ours and he is the author of Tropical Affairs as well as Lovers & Strangers Revisited, both containing stories of his adventures living in Malaysia for the past 20 odd years. [...]

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How To Be More Creative – 100 Tips

Creativity is always spoken about but no one really knows what it is until they chance on it. It’s like beauty. You know what makes you gasp in delight but you really cannot describe it fully. And here’s something worthwhile to consider – creativity is but a daily habit. Over here in Redbox Studio, we [...]

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How To Make Your Blog Exciting Again, Part 2

Remember Part 1 where I gave you 6 tips on giving your blog a boost? The key to success with blogging is to stick with it, consistently. Too many people blog for two weeks and give up once they have nothing to write. I’m like the proverbial tortoise – I go slow and easy and [...]

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How To Make Your Blog Exciting Again, Part 1

Blogging is never an easy job especially with business blogging. Business blogging is a little bit different from personal blogging. It needs to tread on a fine line between being personable (having a personality that shines) and being a business. It needs charisma but it also needs professionalism. It needs enough juicy posts to impress [...]

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Lunch with a Children’s Book Author

Had lunch with a good friend who is also one of our clients just last week. She had come up to Penang for a family holiday and we met up, after 9 years of not seeing each other (emails don’t count ya!). Rebecca Loke is a children’s book author. She’s also mom to 10 year [...]

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How To Get Your Email Noticed!

I was writing this for a magazine and thought, hey, I could share this on our blog too. Here are 5 email tips you can use if you want your email to stand out in a crowded inbox. 1. Have a catchy subject line – even if it is a forward! This is tip number [...]

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My Golden Tip of Battling Writer’s Block

Last month I shared about 5 tips you can use to jazz up your writing. Today, I am sharing with you one, yes, just one solid tip that gets me writing even when I am sometimes maimed by writer’s block. Sometimes, 1 tip is all you need. I’ve used this on myself so I know [...]

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