Released on: March 18, 2008, 10:52 pm

Press Release Author: jaswalbhisham

Industry: Marketing

Press Release Summary: Weather posting a page to your Website, writing a letter to a
customer, or submitting an article for publication, it is extremely important to
demonstrate how professional you are. Not only does a series of spelling and
grammatical errors show a discourtesy to your readers, it makes you look amateurish.
Potential customers will lose any trust they may have had in your business. Only a
week or so ago, I read a classified ad asking me to visit their \"sight\" - needless
to say I did not bother. If someone does not take care over their advertising, how
reliable is the rest of their business?

Press Release Body: Weather posting a page to your Website, writing a letter to a
customer, or submitting an article for publication, it is extremely important to
demonstrate how professional you are. Not only does a series of spelling and
grammatical errors show a discourtesy to your readers, it makes you look amateurish.
Potential customers will lose any trust they may have had in your business. Only a
week or so ago, I read a classified ad asking me to visit their \"sight\" - needless
to say I did not bother. If someone does not take care over their advertising, how
reliable is the rest of their business?
Perhaps you are not very good at spelling - or typing - and your articles and
letters are riddled with mistakes (probably when you were working for an employer
you had a secretary to type your male) so, what are you going to do?
The first thing, but NOT the only thing, is to use your spellchecker. This is fine
to get rid of the typos and obvious spelling mistakes, but does not correct any
instances of you typing in the wrong word e.g. there (denoting a place) or their
(belonging to them).
So, read your work back after you have written it. Many people find that actually
reading out loud is a great way of spotting errors. If it is an important item,
print it off and read it a little while after you have typed it. Ideally, get
someone else to read it and mark off any errors. When I was involved in publishing,
it was always a strict rule, even with the most experienced writers, to get someone
else to check their work. It is surprising how often one is unable to spot one\'s own
mistakes.
So to summaries, use your spellchecker, re-read the item yourself, print out and
proof read and ideally get someone else to do the proof reading.
One last point, make allowances for the fact that some articles are written in
\"British\" English, as opposed to \"American\" English. So if you see color spelled
color, or centre spelled center, the author has not misspelled the word, he is just
likely to be American (or at least has the American version of English on his
spellchecker.)
And finally, there are three deliberate mistakes in this article where I have
intentionally used the wrong word (at least I HOPE there are only three!!) in order
to demonstrate the point I am making. The first three readers to email me detailing
the errors will each be given a FREE ad in my newsletter and in the classified
section of my Web Site.


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