Ashley Callahan, Coca-Cola’s manager for digital communications and social media, asks that question. If the answer is yes, the content in question is one step closer to getting posted.
Surprise catches your attention, which makes it a good device to slip into all types of business content.
... (Read More)“The One that Started it All”
So starts the dessert menu at a popular restaurant. What’s with the capitalization? Why are that and it down and the other words up?
You may not be writing headlines for signature sweets, but you are for presentations, websites, press releases, and invitations. Copy that randomly switches between uppercase and lowercase... (Read More)
“I want to thank you for being so engaged and thoughtful around the direction of the company.”
So wrote a well-known CEO in a well-publicized letter to her employees.
Why the preposition around, which makes it sound as if the employees weighed in on something hovering about, but not quite connected... (Read More)
Everyone loves a good story, which is why storytelling has become such an effective marketing and communications tool for business. But companies often speak and write in a way that keeps them—and their audiences—at a distance. They’ll introduce sentences with “there is” or “there are”—“There is a lack of clarity,”... (Read More)
When Roseanne Cash had polyps on her vocal chords, her doctors ordered steroids and four months of vocal rest. “I was like a hurricane in a phone booth,” the singer told The New York Times. Even if you’ve never experienced the jazzed-up side effects of steroids, bam, you get the... (Read More)
Have you ever written something like this?
Why the hype?
I’m referring to genuinely, dramatically, and—depending on how... (Read More)
