How Precise Is Your Writing - RD291

<p class="p1">Let me ask you something. How confident would you be buying a meal from a food truck that is so rusted and smoke-stained that you can’t make out its name on the side? Or how confident would you be staying at a motel where the paint was peeling off the doors, siding was missing on the building, and duct tape held the cracked windows together? Or how confident would you be buying a car from an auto dealer whose windows were so dirty you couldn’t see through them and whose sign was missing a couple of letters?</p> <p class="p1">I bet your confidence wouldn’t be very high in those situations.</p> <p class="p1">How do you think a client would feel if they came across a website that contains errors while looking for a designer? I bet they wouldn’t feel too confident in hiring that person. That’s what I want to talk about today, making sure your messaging doesn’t contain errors.</p> <p class="p1">Let me give you a bit of background here. I decided to talk about this today because someone sent me a message earlier this week.</p> <p class="p1">Now, if you’ve ever contacted me for whatever reason, there’s a good chance I looked at your website. It’s just something I do. Any time someone emails me or contacts me on social media, I’ll try to find their website to see how they present themself.</p> <p class="p1">So, someone sent me a message earlier this week, and when I found their website, the first thing I saw was a spelling mistake. The very first line of the website was “I Designs Websites.”</p> <p class="p1">Other places on the website included passages that lead me to believe this person is not a native English speaker. But I’ll touch more on that later.</p> <p class="p1">And even though it was a beautifully designed website, and this person had a fantastic portfolio, those spelling and grammar mistakes made me question the quality of this person’s work.</p> <p class="p1">Now imagine I was a client looking for someone to build a website for my new business. <span class= "Apple-converted-space">T</span>hos