Avoid These in Email Messages
Email messages constitute a rapid form of written business communication, but text messages they are not! Although brevity makes for...
Shifting to Video? You Might Still Need Good Business Writers
Recently, Fox Sports announced a move to cut about 20 writer and editor jobs for its online content in favor of hiring more people with...
Be a Stand-up Writer
Is writer's block a problem when you sit down at the computer? Try standing up. That worked for the five well-known authors discussed in...
Spend Less Time on Your Email In-Box
Email messages still are essential tools in business communication. But sorting, reading and writing email should not take up the bulk of...
How Do Good Writers Become So Good?
Are we all born to write or do grammar, sentence structure and even creativity come more easily to some than to others? Or is it some...
Reconsider Before Hitting "Send"
The tone and intent of email is more difficult to predict without the verbal and body language cues people pick up in conversations. As a...
Email Etiquette: This is Not a Text Message
When email messages first began replacing traditional business letters and memos, business writers had to learn how to tweak their...
Hold the Phone! Or at Least Follow These Business Etiquette Tips
Your mobile phone is always at your side, and at your colleagues' sides. With increasing dependence on mobile phones and expectations of...
How to Write Better Sentences
We talk a lot in Business Writing That Counts! about words, grammar and punctuation. Today, I want to talk about the sum of those parts –...
Is Writing Still Relevant?
Concerns about decreasing attention spans, largely from technology, social media and multitasking, can send communication folks into a...
