How to write content readers want to read
Being competitive in a saturated writing market Ever heard the old advice for fledgling writers: “write what you know”? Take a moment and write it down on a piece of paper. Got it? Good. Now crumple it up and throw that piece of paper into the trash bin. Let any memory of the idea fad
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5 Communication lessons taken from Journalism
It’s tempting to jump online and immediately churn out blog posts as quickly as you can. The Internet is a confusing place and it’s difficult to know what will catch people’s attention. The easiest solution is to try writing everything — until someone bites. But it’s a poor way
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Spritz – A new way to read?
This week’s blog will be short (yay head-cold!) and by short I mean “normal blog length” as most of my blogs end up reaching 800 to 1,000 words. (Lucky you regular blog readers! Newcomers! Here are some links to some of my other blogs!) This week a good friend of mine pointed o
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Reading for Business
Reading Habits I saw this infographic last week talking about the habits of the worlds wealthiest people. It talked about them getting up early, about maintaining a to-do list, staying healthy and setting goals. But what really caught my attention was that many of their habits involve
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Dots and Dashes: A Punctuation Lesson
Now most people don’t think twice about the dots and dashes that they use in their day to day writing (and morse code has been out of fashion for a long time). But like most punctuation that goes unnoticed and unobserved, a dash (-) an en dash (–) and an em dash (—) are often i
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Business Email Etiquette Part 2
With the success of my previous post on Business Email Etiquette, which you can’t see by the comments on the page, but by rather the number of people who mentioned it to me in person, I decided to do a follow up blog to hit on a few more points that I missed. Apologies for the
Read MoreGrammar for Daily Business Communications
While Stephen Fry has a point about grammar nazis being insufferable peons, the fact remains that business communications, especially online ones should be given the focus and the time it deserves. Note: All of my arguments are for written communications and not verbal ones. In order
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