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    <title>Taglines for Local Businesses</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Geography is an asset most local businesses waste or overspend. When naming the town helps, when it limits you, and the line between local and parochial.</description>
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    <title>The Two-Word Tagline</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The shortest viable form has outsized appeal and a brutal failure rate. What has to be true for two words to work, and why most are abstractions in disguise.</description>
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    <title>Stress-Testing a Tagline Against Bad Reviews</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Your tagline will one day be read by a furious customer. Which promises become ammunition, and how to write a line you can still stand behind that day.</description>
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    <title>Descriptive vs Evocative Taglines</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Lines that explain versus lines that suggest: the real tradeoff between them, why new businesses usually need the former, and when to switch.</description>
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    <title>How to Brief a Designer on Your Tagline</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The line is chosen; now it has to survive typesetting. Character counts, worst-case placements, line breaks and tone — what your designer needs in writing.</description>
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    <title>Taglines That Age Badly</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Slang, technology references, cultural moments and superlatives: the four patterns with a short shelf life, and how to date-proof a line before it ships.</description>
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    <title>Concrete Nouns Beat Abstract Ones</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The most reliable line-level edit there is: swap abstractions for things you could photograph. Before-and-afters, and why the trade almost always pays.</description>
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    <title>Why Committees Kill Good Taglines</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Group approval selects for the line nobody objects to, which is rarely the line anybody remembers. The decision structure that avoids the blender.</description>
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    <title>The Tagline Brief: A One-Page Template</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>A fill-in brief that makes tagline writing tractable: audience, difference, feeling, constraints, placements and banned words, with a worked example.</description>
    <category>process</category>
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    <title>Writing Taglines in a Second Language</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Why literal translation of a good line usually fails: idiom, false friends, and sound that does not travel. What to do instead of translating.</description>
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    <title>How Often Should You Change Your Tagline?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Recognition compounds and churn resets it. The signals that it is genuinely time to change your line, the false alarms, and what a change actually costs.</description>
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    <title>Taglines for Businesses With No Obvious Differentiator</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>What to write when the honest answer is &quot;we do what everyone else does.&quot; Finding a real angle in service, hours, geography or manner — without inventing one.</description>
    <category>positioning</category>
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    <title>What a Slogan Can&#39;t Fix</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Positioning problems, pricing problems and product problems all look like copy problems from the inside. How to tell which one you actually have.</description>
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    <title>The Case Against Puns</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The pun deserves a fair trial before the verdict. When a pun is genuinely the right call, and the far more common ways it quietly dates a business.</description>
    <category>writing</category>
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    <title>Reading the Room: Taglines for Serious Categories</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Funeral homes, legal aid, debt advice: categories where the standard playful advice fails. What replaces cleverness when the customer is having a bad day.</description>
    <category>tone</category>
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    <title>How to Rename a Business Without Losing Customers</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Renaming is a logistics problem wearing a creative costume. The sequencing, the overlap period, and what to tell existing customers — in the right order.</description>
    <category>naming</category>
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    <title>Rhyme, Alliteration and When Sound Tricks Backfire</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Sound devices make lines stick — and can make a business sound like a child&#39;s menu. When rhyme and alliteration help, and the tests that catch the misfires.</description>
    <category>writing</category>
    <category>craft</category>
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    <title>Where to Put Your Tagline (and Where Not To)</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Placement changes what a tagline has to do. The spots that earn their keep, the spots that change the brief, and the places a line actively hurts.</description>
    <category>placement</category>
    <category>practical</category>
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    <title>How Long Should a Slogan Be?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>There is no magic word count, but there are real constraints — breath, signage, and the size of the gap you are asking a reader to close.</description>
    <category>fundamentals</category>
    <category>writing</category>
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    <title>Using AI for Slogans Without Sounding Like AI</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Generated taglines have a recognisable smell. Where it comes from, how to spot it in your own shortlist, and how to use the tool without inheriting it.</description>
    <category>writing</category>
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