“Your college compositions will like take one of the following formats, ”Quick Access” authors advise students. The same list of 9 might apply to us business blog content writers, I couldn’t help thinking. 1. Illustration essay – “Just as in a visual illustration, a written illustration shows the reader something or illustrates a point.” Beginning […]
“So which is better for you: long or short content?” Rob Marsh asks on copyhackers.com. The short of it as per Forbes.com: “Write short, pithy posts. After 750 words – or sometimes after only half that – you risk losing your readers’ attention”. The long of it as per Buffer: “Posts longer than 2,500 words […]
Have you ever asked someone to “pardon your tartle?” Tartle is actually the Scottish term for the kind of “brain freeze” you get while introducing someone because you’ve forgotten their name.” Helping readers avoid (and, if necessary, deal with) awkward and embarrassing situations is one valuable service business owners and practitioners can offer through […]
When exactly do “the cows come home”? And who was the first person to “steal someone’s thunder?” Who would ever put a cat in a bag? Writing in Reader’s Digest, Jacopo Della Quercia shares the history of several colorful expressions that are part of the English language, but which have “lost the connection to their […]
A couple of years ago at Say It For You, I began calling attention to the idea of using certain literary devices in business blog titles with an eye to making them more “catchy”. In addition to alliteration, a second creative writing technique is “threesomes”. The same Fortune magazine that used those ten alliterative […]
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