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Wednesday: Do you ever feel like maybe you just have been fooling everyone all along? (opens the original)
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Good morning!I’m going to be real with you guys, because that’s how we do it here: Yesterday was kind of a crappy day.I want to preface this by saying nothing terrible happened. No one died, I didn’t get fired, my apartment didn’t flood, I didn’t send the wrong text to the wrong person or accidentally hit reply all on a mass email.But you know those days where just a bunch of little things happen that just chip away at you? And I’m not going to even go into the various moments, even if I was to
Tuesday: Did I tell you about the time my sandwich was password protected? (opens the original)
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Good morning!True story: Recently, my lunch was held hostage. No, I’m not just being dramatic.A restaurant was sending me a sample of a new menu item to try for a story. This happens regularly: A restaurant adds something new to their menu, they send it over, I taste it, and I write one of those fun little “I tried this” stories about it.That day, everything was actually going beautifully. The food arrived during the agreed-upon delivery window. It was the correct food. I was home. The delivery
Monday: One Product, 15 Gift Guides (opens the original)
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Good morning!I hope everyone is safe and dry after this weekend’s crazy storms. And now: Welcome back to my ongoing Holiday Gift Guide Countdown series!By now, we’ve dissected the anatomy of a holiday gift guide pitch. We’ve talked about pitching the person, not merely the product.Today, we’re taking that one step further.Okay, Aly. I have ONE product. How many different ways can I possibly pitch this thing?Potentially, a lot.Today, I’m going to talk about how you can find and use multiple legit
Special Saturday Edition: Please stay home. (opens the original)
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Good morning!I know.It’s Saturday.I don’t send an email out today very often (or at least haven’t regularly in quite some time). But apparently Mother Nature looked at any of our weekend plans and was like LOL, absolutely not.So, hello from inside the nor’easter!Here in Brooklyn, the wind is ridiculous, streets are essentially streams, basements all over the place are flooding, trees have come down, people are losing power, and we’re not even halfway through this thing yet.I’m safe and dry for t
Friday: Some things are worth the maintenance (opens the original)
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Good morning!Today, I am playing hooky. Sort of.Don’t alert the authorities, I obviously have my laptop with me. I didn’t go and get a lobotomy, just a hair treatment. My computer is probably even going be open in my lap for the bulk of the afternoon. I will almost certainly check my email regularly. I might even get some actual work done. I’ll probably be texting and DMing with a bunch of you, too.But I am also spending approximately four hours in a hair salon this afternoon getting my twice-ye
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