Crunch time for internal comms
A few weeks in to the Covid-19 crisis, external communications teams have run out of platitudes.Read More READ MORE
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Red Door Ink.
Words that open doors
Tag: business communication
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The five-sentence rule
If you want to write emails that people actually read, make them no longer than five sentences.Read More READ MORE
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Mind your manners, honey
It seems strange to be writing one of these posts in 2019, but we need to talk about email etiquette – more specifically, the lack of it.Read More READ MORE
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Short and sweet
“I’m sorry I wrote such a long letter: I didn’t have time to write a short one.” That quote, in slightly different permutations, has been variously attributed to Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and Blaise Pascale, among others.Read More READ MORE
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Don’t take that tone with me
Imagine if you stood in the kitchen with a shopping bag over your shoulder and said to your significant other, “Attached hereto for your kind information, please find the grocery shopping you requested me to action.” Ridiculous, right?Read More READ MORE
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3 Ways To Give Your Business Writing The Ring Of Truth
We take great care with our appearance in the business world – from the way we dress and decorate our offices, to the design of our logos and corporate branding.Read More READ MORE
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Change the channel
As I’ve written before, communication consists of at least two parties – a sender and a receiver, and many of us don’t consider the receiver when we craft our messages.Read More READ MORE