April 4 Editing Quiz with ANSWERS!

People get hundreds of e-mails a day, and you’re sending them one in the entire month, you and your brand are lost. Too conversational. I think I know what this person is trying to say, but this needs a rewrite. This is a co-sponsored event with Student Alumni...

March 30 Quiz with ANSWERS!

1) Headquartered in Miami, our operations are comprised of a nationally chartered bank, SUB, a wealth management division, SB&T, and an international branch of our parent company, BS. Okay, it’s composed of, never comprised of. The large thing (the operations) is...

Knock, knock! Anybody home?

I got an email today from an organization I just joined. I’ve already mentioned my initial worries about this group, and I can now say that my fears were justified. Writing like this has no place in a professional email. I am not going to let you look at the...

April 4, 2016 Editing Quiz!

Most of these sentences are from “website developers”; in other words, companies that are paid to write for other businesses. In my experience, most internet content writers can’t write their way out of a paper sack and are largely clueless about basic punctuation and...

What I'm reading now.

The other day someone asked me what I’m reading. Well, aside from mining real estate-related websites for material while researching my much-anticipated tenth book, Self-Editing for Real Estate Professionals, I am reading some great books at the moment....