My Secret (Blogging) Weapon: Brett, Our Professional Copywriter
My Best Kept Secret as a Blogger: Brett – An Awesome Copywriter My Secret (Blogging) Weapon: Brett, Our Professional Copywriter
This post, as all the other post I have recently published, is far from the way I originally wrote it. As is the case with all of my recent posts, this reads far differently than it did when I originally wrote it. It has been improved and proofread by Brett McCallon. This post shows how good he is at doing that and how much I suck at writing. I include his edits here both to show you his improvements, and to demonstrate my shortcomings as a writer.
As the Product Developer of LetMeGo I’m responsible for writing the texts for all the screens that the users of LetMeGo will experience text that is used on all of LetMeGo’s user interface screens. I love doing it, but While I very much enjoy this part of my job, I have one major limitation: English is not my native language. That is why instead of just hiring a proofreader, I wanted to hire somebody that could drastically improve every sentence I wrote. For that reason, when it came time to hire a proofreader, I instead decided to hire a combination proofreader and copy editor—I wanted someone who could significantly improve every sentence I had written. After testing a few people, I decided to go with Brett. Brett has invested several months already improving Brett has spent the last several months reviewing and improving the copy of the almost used on each of the nearly 1,000 different screens that compose comprise LetMeGo. He is almost done now. He is, finally, nearly finished with this project.
Luckily for me, Brett’s skill at copywriting comes from experience as marketing strategies, including other online marketplaces. As it turns out, Brett’s skill with copywriting developed in conjunction with his work as a marketing strategist, whose past projects include other online marketplaces. His work is so good that we have hired him as public relation strategist to consult with us in this capacity, as well. As such, he is also working in on some kicking kick-ass ideas for our launch. As you know, we like to be secretive and our PR strategy won’t be the exception. Not that we can talk about these ideas yet: we like keeping secrets until the right time, and our approach to PR and marketing will be no exception.
Thank you Brett!
Alexander Torrenegra
P.S. In case you didn’t notice, my original text is colored in black. The text that Brett replaced or removed is crossed out in red. The text that Brett added is colored in blue.

This post is really cool very creative; I have seen Brett’s work, and his comments and improvements to the contents, give to LetMeGo an unique communication style.
Leonardo S
September 22, 2009 at 9:18 pm
This post was very entertaining, I need a proofreader like that for my blogs in Spanish!
Andres Barreto
February 12, 2010 at 3:18 pm