OK, this post has been a long time coming.

For over a decade, peo­ple keep ask­ing me, “So, what is it: Michel? Michael? Mike? What?” (I pre­fer “Mas­ter,” but I digress.)

My won­der­ful wife calls me “Mish.” (Short for “Michel,” pro­nounced “Mish-​​al.”) In turn, I call her “Rish,” which is short for “Licorice.” The story behind it is, when we first met, a friend told us we were love­birds, always together, insep­a­ra­ble. Like licorice.

(We still are! In fact, we even merged our busi­nesses and cre­ated a new umbrella com­pany, called “The Licorice Group, LLC.” Now there’s a twist!)

Any­way, here’s the thing.

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When I write copy, some tools help me tremen­dously. Whether it’s the copy itself, or inter­ac­tions with my clients, there are cer­tain web­sites I use that help make it a lot eas­ier for me.

There are quite a few pieces of soft­ware, so let me just stick with the web-​​based ones. How about post­ing yours? What are some of the tools you use in your work to improve your productivity?

Here are some of mine…

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