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Tagline Contest Winner!

Posted by Sara Richmond   Aug 12, 2021 10:30:00 AM

The public has spoken, and native Canadian Maureen McLeod is our winner!

(We became aware that the formerly published tagline, though not intended for use in any capacity beside this contest, is coincidentally in use in a very similar form by another company. Out of respect, we’ve preemptively removed the winning tagline from this blog post.)

Maureen writes limericks for fun. Her friends tell her she could be a Jeopardy star, but she slams the competition from the comfort of her home. When her children were four and eleven years old, she and her husband sold their house and vehicles, packed their belongings into a second-hand camper, and traveled around the United States for 10 months. Just for fun. “He was adventurous,” she says.

In short, Maureen is “good people.”

It should come as no surprise then, that she won our Tagline Contest. Her liveliness is paired fairly with a delightful sense of humor. More specifically to the point, she has been wielding the English language with aplomb and precision for decades.

She grew up in a small community in Northern Alberta. “A tiny, hamlet town,” she says. Her father was the school principal, and despite the fact that there was no library, he always found ways to get them books. Those stories opened up her world and set her on a path to her love of knowledge and the English language.

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Vote for Your Favorite Tagline

Posted by Sara Richmond   Jul 29, 2021 10:15:00 AM

Vote!

 

We are blown away by the number of our readers who submitted their entries for our completely bogus Tagline Contest. We received many, many submissions and our staff had a difficult time selecting the top five. In fact, because there were three taglines that tied for fifth, you'll have seven taglines to choose from to pick our winner.

Remember what’s up for grabs: A $50 Amazon gift card, infinite bragging rights, and 14.82 minutes of fame (including the option to be featured in follow-up blog/LinkedIn posts).

Vote for your favorite tagline by ranking the taglines below. We will notify the winner by email and announce the winner publicly on August 12, 2021.

Get those votes in!  The deadline for voting is 5:00 pm ET on August 5, 2021. 

We loved hearing from all of you! Thanks for the laughs!

 

Voting has ended. Come back on August 12 to find out who won!

 

 

 

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Enter Our Tagline Contest

Posted by Sara Richmond   Jul 15, 2021 10:00:00 AM

Fancy yourself a genius creative? Love grammar? Want to make the world a better place? Angling for a short-lived Amazon shopping spree? Then you’re just who we’ve been looking for.

First, the completely made-up premise:

We made the mistake of hiring our cousin’s boyfriend’s dog’s best friend and self-proclaimedcopywriting and marketing guru” to come up with a list of possible new taglines for ProofreadNOW.com. We lost confidence in him based on his subsequent two-word e-mail responses consisting of “Huh?” and “K.”

He finally submitted a snarky note three weeks after our deadline asserting that he was confident whatever he lacked in actual experience he’d made up for with excessiveness, along with the following long and atrocious list.

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