21 Amazing Business Writing Resources

February 17, 2008

Get your writing wrong in your business letters, blog, or website and your customers may not get the message. Worse still they may not even read it at all. And the great news is, anyone can improve their business writing skills. Check out these great business writing resources and make your business writing rock.

The Four Keys To Reader Comments And Conversation: Liz Strauss shares the secret to getting readers to participate in your blog.

Get Featured In National Newspapers and Magazines:
In this amazing article – Jonathon Fields explains how to get your business featured in national newspapers and magazines and make mega bucks.



On Homer Simpson and Copywriting:
Walt Goshert explains why it’s important to picture Homer, to get customers to read your marketing message.

Writing Dirty: Skellie explains how to write dirty, without being rude to spice up your blog posts.

In Five Ways To Put Some Heart into your business writing. Joanna Young explains how to inject some human qualities into your business writing.

Get Attention: Writers Digest explains how to grab your reader’s attention with the opening paragraphy.

How Long Should It Be? Should you use a short headline or a long one? Does your sales letter need to go on forever, or is brevity better? Copywriting genius Brian Clark explains in: The Long and Short of Copywriting.

Emails Hitting The Spam Box? Michael Fortin explains how to increase your email open rates.

Outsource Your Blog: Free your time up to concentrate on your blog writing. Brad Brown explains How to outsource your blog.

Use The Best Selling Words: Check out this article by Laura Spencer, to discover the top 25 top selling words to use in your business writing.

Get Your Press Release Blogged About:
So, you’ve written a great press release. Search Marketing Gurus explain how not to pitch your press release to bloggers.


Write Without Fear: Men With Pens share 3 can’t fail steps for writing without intimidation.

Need to Write An Ad That Rocks:
Check out this article by Bob Bly on how to write a good advertisement.

Writing To Double Your Profits:
Leading copywriter – Clayton Makepeace shows business owners how to double their profits in 12 months or less.

Bencivenga Bullets:
The free copywriting tips newsletter of America’s top copywriter, Gary Bencivenga.

What Is Good Content? You want the best content in your blog right? Maki from Dosh Dosh explains how to write content that will drag thousands of subscribers to your blog.

And What If Someone Steals Your Writing On The Internet: So, you’ve written some great content for your blog or website and you want to protect it. But how do you find out if someone has plagiarized your work? Barbara at Blogging Without a Blog shows you how.

Is Your Blog Serving It’s Purpose? Does your business have a blog? Is it serving it’s purpose? Christina at Self Made Chick offers 5 excellent tips to ensure that it does.

Edit Your Writing: Leo from Write to Done explains how to edit your writing to ensure that it’s clear and concise.


71 Amazing Blog Writing Tutorials:
Daniel at Daily blog tips has 71 brilliant resources for blog writers in this post.

Features V Benefits – The Showdown:
You may have heard that you need to show your customers benefits, not features in your business writing and advertising. Marketing wiz Naomi Dunford explains the difference.

Do More With Less: Great writing tips from Syntax.


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23 Responses to “21 Amazing Business Writing Resources”

  1. Barbara on February 17th, 2008 8:25 pm

    Hi Catherine,

    This is a great list of fabulous resources for anyone who is writing for their business or websites/blogs.

    Kudos to you for taking time to put it together, thus saving the rest of us hours of research.

    I feel honored to have been included, Thank You!

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  2. RacerX on February 17th, 2008 8:39 pm

    Super collection Catherine…Thanks!

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  3. James Chartrand - Men with Pens on February 17th, 2008 10:30 pm

    Woot – thanks for the linkage!

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  4. cathlawson on February 18th, 2008 4:44 am

    Thanks Barbara – I’m glad you liked it. And you’re welcome for the link. You’ve given some great advice for checking whether articles have been plagiarized.

    Racer, James & Paid Survey person – Thanks.

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  5. Terence Chang - The Internet Entrepreneur Diary on February 18th, 2008 7:28 am

    WOW.. You have shown a great link love.

    That’s a great list. I would like to recommend you to add a new section on your side bar to make this post and other “LIST” posts under a section called “Must Read Business Tips

    It will be more convenient for people like me. :-)

    Terence Chang – The Internet Entrepreneur Diary’s last blog post..Door to happiness and fortune – Do you have the golden key to open it?

  6. cathlawson on February 18th, 2008 7:36 am

    Hi Terence – I’m glad you like it. And that’s a great idea. Now I just need to try to work out how to do it! Thanks.

  7. Joanna Young on February 18th, 2008 10:51 am

    Cath, thanks for the link, and such a great compilation of resources!

    Joanna

    Joanna Young’s last blog post..The Deep End: Guest Post by Amy Palko

  8. cathlawson on February 18th, 2008 11:26 am

    You’re welcome Joanna – it was an excellent post. And I’m glad you liked the resource list.

  9. Ian Denny on February 18th, 2008 3:23 pm

    I don’t want to make any empty promises, b ut knowing the quality of previous lists and the feedback so far, I’ll definitely be marking this one to come back (in Internet Explorer rather than elsewhere this time!).

    Having one of those days where doing the stuff I’d prefer to do like go through these links will have to wait until later.

    Ian Denny’s last blog post..Email Marketing: Don’t Spam, Know Your Audience

  10. cathlawson on February 18th, 2008 3:26 pm

    Hi Ian – no problems – I think it should be fine, so long as you don’t bookmark the whole site!

    I always go back to link posts later too especially on Mondays.

  11. Hawksdomain on February 18th, 2008 3:36 pm

    I just wanted to thank you for this great list. This will help me greatly with my day job as well as my blog!

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  12. jsanderz on February 18th, 2008 7:12 pm

    Catherine,
    Thanks so much for this fantastic list, this is one I will be adding in Netvibes.
    Regards.

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  13. John personal trainer Austin on February 18th, 2008 7:39 pm

    A great list. Thank you for this.

  14. Christine OKelly on February 18th, 2008 8:05 pm

    Hi Catherine ~ Thanks so much for including my post among such great company. I’ve opened so many Firefox tabs with this single post… thank you for putting together such a comprehensive list!

    Christine

    Christine OKelly’s last blog post..Show Me The Money Dave Navarro!

  15. Joanne on February 18th, 2008 10:05 pm

    Great post, very useful. I just subscribed to your feed. I found your blog through your comment at Crayon Writer (I think that was the name of the blog).

    Joanne’s last blog post..Adoption Forums

  16. cathlawson on February 18th, 2008 11:06 pm

    Hi Hawksdomain and Jeff and John – you are both welcome. Glad you liked it.

    Hi Christine – you are welcome. Your post is excellent and well deserving of a place in the list.

    Hi Joanne – I know the Crayon Writer blog – than you for dropping by and subscribing.

  17. Walt Goshert on February 19th, 2008 3:21 am

    Thanks Catherine for the mention and the link.

    Amazing writing resources indeed…

    I’m getting so many damn bookmarks of lists, I need to make a list of my lists.

    Thanks,

    Walt

    Walt Goshert’s last blog post..Launch Your Post Pics

  18. Laura on February 19th, 2008 8:30 pm

    Thanks Catherine!

    I’m glad that you found my old post.

    Now I’ve got some reading to do!

  19. cathlawson on February 20th, 2008 2:59 am

    Hi Walt – You are welcome. I loved your article. And I know the feeling – I have collected so many great lists of lists – including the one you wrote at the weekends, that it’s going to take me forever to get through them all.

    Hi Laura – You’re welcome – it was a great post.

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