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I can’t wait to read this!

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Kristina - do you pay for Grammerly or use the free version? I use free and wondering if paid is worth it.

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Hey Melissa. If you are not a native speaker, then it is a gamble. However, in my line of work, I have found that Premium or Free does not find all the mistakes and on the contrary, it sometimes points out non-existent mistakes. So, I would say around 30% to 40% of the time it fails on both ends. You have got to have an eye for detecting mistakes either way. I usually use Premium just to help me find potential mistakes quicker. There are more reliable products available, but they are more pricey.

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Hmmmm… good info here. Thanks for sharing.

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Hi Melissa, last week I became a paid member. I think it's worth it (as a non-native) but as you can see from the example from Ben, also as a native it's smart.

Alshough my Grammarly was CRYING all the time when I copy pastes Ben's stories and tweaked it a little. Ben has a very unique style. But you can skip suggestions and then happily go with your style, ideas and words you love.

I'll add Grammarly to the resource bank inside the membership and share a tech stack so you knwo what I pay for and use.

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Hey Kristina, at this point I don't recommend using Grammarly for native or non-native English speakers. As I have already explained above. Style is one thing, but being grammatically correct is a totally different thing and can hinder your professional image. I love Grammarly for my reasons provided above, but it is not reliable enough to fully trust it. You need to know grammar, sentence structure, cohesion, coherence, and lexical resource, etc. Also, Grammarly often disregards context.

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That would be awesome! Thank you, Kristina!

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Boo!

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Sure!

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Kristina - do you pay for Grammerly or use the free version? I use free and wondering if paid is worth it.

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See above

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odd... did that post twice!!

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Weird. Substack la often buggy lately

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Wow that $21K with one article is so inspiring! Gotta go finish some on my long list of Medium drafts :D

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Sooo freaking bonkers, I know. I'll talk with Michelle and then share a video with further insights and tips. She's crushing it.

Would love to het a statement from you too. I would send you 3 quick Qs and then you could send me recording and I could include it in one of my videos about how much you can make with the boost.

You know the discussion about whether Medium is worth it and if you still can earn money... I'd like to how, it still is (if you find the time and publish consistently) WIll also show some other WOW worthy examples from our tribe, Jim.

Oh and If you like you could join our panel discussion in the Bootcamp I'll cohost with Derek.

Ben will be there too, just 15 minutes for each person, No 21.

What do you thinkt? I bet that's not what you expected ^^

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Thanks so much for putting this together, Kristina!!

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Hey Ben, many thanks for sharing this with us. Lots of words to improve my lexicon ^^

Grammarly was crying while checking the text (I didn't change anything) because of your unique style.

I now also pay for Grammarly. Since last week, to be more specific.

Hope you'll get many more followers, subs and fans through this post.

Got already more then 2500 views!

You could reply to Jim (he's writing about AI on Medium and has his own AI pub) and Melissa (asking about Grammarly).

Happy to meet you inside the Bootcamp and as a panelist on stage on Thursday... ahhh scary.

Happy Halloween!

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