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The Weekly Round Up #118

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

The 118th issue of the Weekly Round Up is here – your regular digest filled with copywriting insights, AI tips, must-read articles, pretty cool copy examples, and much more!

  • Copy Tip: Stop apologizing for the em dash
  • AI Tip: Save your best AI outputs
  • Writing is Thinking, But What Happens When You Let AI Do It for You? (via Psychology Meets Writing)
  • Communicating Your Brand Values (via Really Good Emails)
  • Your Prompts are Fine: Context Engineering is Your Next AI Problem (via Animalz)
  • You Can Scale a System. You Can’t Scale Chaos. (via The Copy Minimalist)
  • Podcast Pick: Show Me the Money Words with Copywriting Expert, Joanna Wiebe
  • Swipe File Additions
  • Job Opps

👉 Click here to read Weekly Round Up #118​

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Matt

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