Get straight to the point

26 Responses to “Get straight to the point”

1. Tillerman on February 20, 2007 2:42 pm

   What’s the point?

2. Daniel on February 20, 2007 2:46 pm

   Whatever your point is, get straight to it. When writing posts, that is.

3. egon on February 20, 2007 2:48 pm

   True but you don’t want to be anti-social about it. When people read blogs, part of the benefits of them are the personalities that go along with them.

4. Lionel Young on February 20, 2007 4:51 pm

   I laughed when I read this. Simple and effective.

   Sometimes we all need a little reminder to get away from “shop-speak” and remember we’re writing for our audience.

5. Ian on February 20, 2007 6:51 pm

   Great.

6. AL on February 20, 2007 9:45 pm

   1 word blog post .. now this may be extreme .. but hell ya it does get the point across. I’m guilty of being wordy at times and I’m trying to work on it.

7. Brian Lim on February 21, 2007 2:26 am

   Very precise and direct to the point indeed…

8. Daniel on February 21, 2007 2:32 am

   Al, yeah a 1 word post is extreme, but this was done on purpose

   Thanks Brian.

9. Shankar Ganesh on February 21, 2007 4:10 am

   GR8

10. Jason Drohn on February 21, 2007 5:50 am

    very nice..

11. Bes Z on February 21, 2007 11:29 am

    I agree Daniel. And regarding being anti-social, you have a point egon. However, it may be better to write “I went to the bank this morning” instead of “I woke up this morning, put on my white shirt and got in my car. Traffic was heavy, though I managed to get to the bank.”

    You can use personal examples and narrations and points to make things personal, but like Daniel pointed out, you need to do it quickly and while keeping reader’s interest still intact. Otherwise, the extra stuff will sound personal but it will sometimes add unnecessarily to the length and the reading time for a visitor.

12. Steve on February 22, 2007 8:22 pm

    Well put. I definitely need to work on this myself as my posts tend to ramble on far too long.

13. Don Adams on April 3, 2007 1:39 pm

    Gordon Brown is better than Robert Maxwell. Maxwell only robbed the Mirror pensioners!

14. Terry on June 29, 2007 5:47 am

    QUOTE:
    “Gordon Brown is better than Robert Maxwell. Maxwell only robbed the Mirror pensioners!”

    What’s your point?

15. SEO Genius on June 8, 2008 8:15 pm

    Great point there, however sometimes it is effective to add a bit of your own personality in to your posts make the article connect with the reader.

    I feel if you want to get people of the home page and to continue reading an article you may have to entice them in with an opening introduction.

16. solsearch on June 9, 2008 7:05 pm

    Point taken.

17. Fabio on December 25, 2008 9:05 pm

    May be a problem for me, because I never finish what I

18. Polymath on December 26, 2008 12:26 pm

    Started

19. eGruve.com on December 26, 2008 12:36 pm

    ok, makes sense sometimes you need to be straight to the point.

20. Ben Moreno on December 26, 2008 4:09 pm

    Oh ya. I wrote a post so short it doesn’t even have a URL.

    Click here ” ” to see it.

21. 15 Minutes to Riches! on January 2, 2009 6:18 pm

    A+

22. Bang Kritikus on January 28, 2009 3:41 am

    ????

23. jan geronimo on March 14, 2009 4:22 am

    Touche.