Writing for Business

Writing for business includes memos, reports, proposals, emails, blogs, eBooks, and other forms of writing used in organizations to communicate with internal or external.

Google Apps for Work provides tools to manage these digital assets. 

Tips

Writer's Block

Writer's block is the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.  Tips to overcome:

• Journal of potential content

  • Anticipate future topics and ideas

  • Plan topics with a content calendar

  • Keep it short with a picture, paragraph, call-to-action

  • Use customer feedback

Tools

• Atomic Reach - writing companion that drives content performance

  • Scoring of how well the content will perform

  • Audience readability / message crafting

  • Title to grab reader's attention

  • Body improvements with topic relevancy, paragraph density, invalid links

  • Language, emotion, spelling, grammar

• Grammarcheck.com - Improve your writing and grammar skills, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, commas, business writing, writing tips, and paragraphs

• Hemingway App - to help you make your writing bold and clear with brevity

• Slickwrite.com - proof read online, check your social posts for grammar, spelling mistakes

• TextExpander - MAC 

• Word Count Tools - a freeword counter that includes features that are useful for users who write in blogs, forums, websites, product reviews:

  • Readability

  • Keyword density

  • Case change

• Writerack.com - for Tweets

• Writers Store  -Screenplay, scripting writing, screenwriting software, books, and classes

Articles

• 10 Legit Ways to Come Up with Blog Post Topics

• 3 Simple, Distraction-Free Writing Tools

• 25 Power Words to Drive More Engagement With Your Social Campaigns

• 37 Best Blog Post Topics to Cure Your Writers Block

• Get in Their Heads—Playing Pretend, Imagination, and The Art of Writing for An Audience

• Writing, Uninterrupted: the Rise of Distraction-Free Writing

• 7 Essential Tips You Need To Follow If You Want To Start Writing

  1. Write for yourself

  2. Don't expect to make a living

  3. Write, write, write

  4. Learn to share your work and absorb opinion

  5. Finish your work

  6. Let your pen / keyboard guide you

  7. Connect

• How to Get People to Remember Your Name

  1. Repeat their name

  2. Tell a story about your name

  3. Use your name in a conversation

  4. Use the right body language

  5. Answer common questions uncommonly

  6. Ask better questions

• Business writing - 5 bad habits

• • More Than One Exclamation Point 

  • The Uberlong Paragraph

  • Buzzwords

  • The Rambling Story

  • Vague Language

• Your Text Is Calling … And It Wants to be Copy-RIGHT! 

• • Start by telling your story

  • Always talk benefits, never features

  • Make it conversational

• What Does Your Email Writing Style Say About You?

• Top five ways to catch typos and errors in your own writing

• Develop daily writing habits.

Affiliates

• The Society of Professional Obituary Writers

• Obit Options - Donna Alvis at ObitOptions.com

Also See

• Blogging

• eBooks

• Book Design

• Freelance

• Self Publishing Author