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Cate Flahardy Guarnery

Cate Guarnery is a freelance journalist and content marketing writer based in the Chicagoland area. She focuses on business, technology, e-commerce, and law. Cate has been a professional writer for more than two decades and holds an MBA from Loyola University Chicago Quinlan School of Business.

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In today’s e-commerce landscape, consumers are constantly bombarded by messages and advertisements — as many as 10,000 ads in the course of a single day, by some estimates. With that …

There’s more to a website than big pictures, flashy videos, bright colors, and lots of copy. In fact, a website can have all those things and still fall flat. From …

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Acquiescence bias is a common concern in consumer research — and for good reason. Also known as agreement bias or yes bias, acquiescence bias is when a survey participant tends …

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Do we truly have control over our decisions? Or are we influenced by our social and economic environment? Psychologists have been hashing this out for years, but it’s also an …

How to write a tagline

We’re surrounded by taglines in our daily lives. The best ones break through the noise, get our attention, and prompt us to act. So how do you write a memorable …