A better use of time.better posts!

We website authors go to humongous lengths to create sites that are attractive, instructive, entertaining, educational and above all helpfull, and worthy of the reader's time. Our objective is twofold; to capture and to hold our readers' attention long enough for the help we offer to be accepted and used. You all know that.

Kyle has told us (I hope you are reading this, Kyle) that we do not have to be (skilled) writers, in order to write posts that can and will result in success. What he should have added...in CAPITALS, bold and underlined ...and even repeated Twice Twice is...you MUST proofread your writings. (Maybe even thrice, if you know what that means).

As a result, Wealthy Affiliates' website (right here) is peppered with grammatical errors, bad syntax, lousy spelling and typing mistakes. I am not referring to chat, nor to anything typed by those for whom English is their second language. They are trying their best. And when it comes to messages, these are no better than one would expect, nowadays. But the errors and mistakes in posts are abominable.

Now I hear the better educated among you say "A language is a living thing. It grows. It changes with the times. And in these modern times it is less important to be "correct" than it is to be understood". I only agree with the first part of that. But young people have been born into the era of language carelessness, to put it kindly. We are all too familiar with the horrific abbreviations used by the young on their hand-fused devices. But if our website markets were limited to these, there would be no business worth the effort.

Faced with an ageing population (more disposable income. More time to read our posts) it surely behooves us to write the way they would like to read us. Faced with the quality of writing coming out of WA, our readers would be forgiven for thinking of us as a pretty sloppy bunch. All because we are too lazy to proofread our work.

"Proofreading? I don't have time for that" I hear you say. Well, in the WA spirit of sharing and helping I will suggest a way of finding some time, based upon my own experience. Each morning I receive about 30 WA emails, plus about 15 more during the day, plus at least 50 by late night just before I (finally) shut down my laptop! Total 95...DAILY.

Some of these too-many emails are very interesting, like questions seeking help, answers to questions and announcements of important training events. No time to be saved with those. BUT, gimmeabreak!! the emails telling me about Janet and Harry etc.following me, as well as hundreds of messages just saying "thank you for following me. I'm following you too" are just a terrible waste of time...better spent proofreading what you write.

In a sort of dying gasp I hear you saying "well..everyone writing website posts and articles is only doing what we are doing !" ....to which I reply...

Every day I read messages that say what a wonderful and extraordinary place is Wealthy Affiliates, and I wholeheartedly agree. So should it not follow as the night the day, that we must then do better than anyone else ?

This post has been proofread.

JeanLouis87