Get straight to the point

18 Responses to “Get straight to the point”

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

   What’s the point?

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

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

3. egon on February 20th, 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 20th, 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 20th, 2007 6:51 pm

   Great.

6. AL on February 20th, 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 21st, 2007 2:26 am

   Very precise and direct to the point indeed…

8. Daniel on February 21st, 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 21st, 2007 4:10 am

   GR8

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

    very nice..

11. Bes Z on February 21st, 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 22nd, 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 3rd, 2007 1:39 pm

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

14. Terry on June 29th, 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 8th, 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 9th, 2008 7:05 pm

    Point taken.

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