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Minggu, 29 April 2018

Importance Of Newsletter Proofreading And Tips In Doing It

By Carol Gray


There are many ways for businesses to market themselves and gain more customers to make their venture successful. This includes posting advertisements in various forms like television, radio and newspaper ads as well as on billboards. They could even post them on websites aside from their own to invite people surfing online to their website and try their products or services.

Another advertising method is by sending newsletters to people through emails or the traditional mails instead. But before sending them, make sure a newsletter proofreading has been done to ensure that the writing has no errors in it. This includes mistakes with linguistic rules like spelling and grammar to prevent others to have a bad impression on you.

Doing this is important because it gives your recipients an impression that you are serious with your message and have taken care with its composition. It helps them understand your message better and avoid confusion or misunderstanding when reading the newsletter. This provides your company with a good professional image among your current and potential customers.

Meanwhile, having mistakes with its composition would reflect very badly on your company and may give them an unprofessional image of you. This is because this shows you have not taken cared of it properly and spent less time in making sure all is correct before they are mailed. And this could cause confusion even because of misunderstanding the message that you want to be conveyed.

These errors would probably have a negative impact on the reputation of your company and fixing it after is very expensive. This includes putting the incorrect pricing of your services or products that results in customers having false expectations. Or the information about the services or products are not completely true, putting you in a bad position and making it very difficult to explain.

There are some things you can do while proofreading your message like reading it both loudly and silently. This informs you how it sounds which may help you in determining any grammatical error it has so it would be changed immediately. And if you read them multiple times, you will probably notice the mistakes in spelling which are not obvious.

You could use spell and grammar checker applications which are available and can be used online for free. But never depend on this because it does not detect all errors and sometimes those they detected are not actually incorrect. Using them as a first screening is usually advisable to help you start with the proofreading process.

Do not proofread every kind of mistakes at the same time but do them separately like for spaces, contractions, apostrophes, spellings and grammar. List down errors that are most commonly made by your writer or yourself and do a separate check for them. Take note the changes done to avoid repeating the same mistake once again.

Let another person proofread it also since they might detect mistakes which you have not detected. This is specially true when you are proofreading your own work. This is because you have been very familiar with your writing style already.




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