{"id":1431,"date":"2016-04-27T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T23:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-699740-3928655.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T11:08:05","slug":"w-is-for-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/w-is-for-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"W is for Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/A2Z-BADGE-2016-small-1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3480\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Bullshit aside, this is absolutely one of my favourite words in the whole of the English language: it\u2019s versatile and expressive and energy-efficient, packing a big punch with just one easy-to-utter syllable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Wow\u2019 of course was originally an interjection expressing wonder, amazement, as in \u2018Wow!\u2019 (that Facebook emoji you can click on to \u2018react\u2019 to a post)<\/p>\n<p>In English you can use it as a word \u2013 as almost any part of speech. It\u2019s incredibly versatile.<\/p>\n<p>You can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wow your clients<\/li>\n<li>Wow your prospects into buying your product<\/li>\n<li>Write books entitled The Wow Principles or How to Unleash the Elusive Wow Factor.<\/li>\n<li>Be so blown away by your cutting-edge new doodad that words fail you \u2013 it\u2019s quite simply \u2018the ultimate wow&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But there\u2019s more: wow has astounding derivational possibilities. You can<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wowify your brand<\/li>\n<li>Make your clients\u2019 jaws drop in absolute wowification.<\/li>\n<li>Ask your clients to rate the wowability of your products (on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 = no wowability at all and 10 = off-the-charts wowability).<\/li>\n<li>Have &#8211; now we&#8217;re positively hyperventilating &#8211; wait for it &#8211; the greatest wowgasm of all time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The A-Z of Bullshit, Hype and Cool Stuff is part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-to-zchallenge.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blogging from A to Z April Challenge\" src=\"http:\/\/i1139.photobucket.com\/albums\/n547\/Jeremy-iZombie\/A2Z-BADGE%202016-smaller_zpslstazvib.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullshit aside, this is absolutely one of my favourite words in the whole of the English language: it\u2019s versatile and expressive and energy-efficient, packing a big punch with just one easy-to-utter syllable. \u2018Wow\u2019 of course was originally an interjection expressing wonder, amazement, as in \u2018Wow!\u2019 (that Facebook emoji you can click on to \u2018react\u2019 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,33],"tags":[42,30,32],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valeriecollinswriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}