Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Style Guides that will help you

Use these style guides next time you write a note to customer/ web page/brochure/white paper/case study/article. You will benefit from what's working for millions.

Economist - The best in business

http://www.economist.com/research/styleguide/

Yahoo

http://styleguide.yahoo.com/

Quality of Language

In the tweeting/texting/googling era, colloquial words are getting added to the dictionary all the time. That is not to say that business english has become casual/frivolous.

As people get used to more cryptic communication, do not let this extend to your marketing /customer communication. Business still makes its first impressions on the quality of language used and texting abbreviations are not tolerated.

Think twice before you talk to your customer in a texting language.

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