The Business Writing Primer
A list of resources to improve your business writing
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Strong business writing will elevate your career.
Here’s a list of resources you can use to learn how to become a better business writer.
(Note: Click each title for the full-length post).
⏩ Use Business Writing To Advance Your Career
Business writing is clear writing used to communicate in a professional setting.
Remember 4 tips to improve your business writing (be concise, get to the point, don’t be boring, and know your customer).
📈 Writing Is Your Asymmetric Opportunity
An opportunity with an asymmetric upside has a small downside risk but a large upside potential.
Business writing is an asymmetric opportunity.
The 3 steps to make writing your asymmetric opportunity:
Write what you love until you love to write
Become An Antifragile Writer
Do Things That Don’t Scale
⚙️ The Publishing Process
The Publishing Process will help guide you in publishing your first post (or 100th).
This process will break the daunting writing process into 4 simple steps:🔮 Topic Selection, 🚄 Bullet Draft, ☑️Vision Draft, and 🎯Clarity Draft.
🚚 How To "Write Like An Amazonian"
Learn business writing fundamentals from a business with a strong writing culture.
5 points to remember:
Use less than 30 words per sentence
Be objective: replace adjectives and adverbs with data
Use the "So What" Test
Avoid Jargon and Acronyms
Use subject-verb-object sentences
💱 3 Business Writing Takeaways From Reading Lyn Alden
Improve your business writing from 3 takeaways and examples from Lyn Alden’s writing.
📈 How to Become an Antifragile Writer
To become an antifragile writer, your goal is to more frequently expose more of your writing to the stresses of the real world.
Become an antifragile writer by building a portfolio of posts and publishing imperfect work.
🏗️ 3 Reasons Every Business Builder Should Write
In becoming a better business writer, you should understand where to deploy your new skill and how it will help you progress.
The three reasons you should write: improve your clarity of thought, strengthen your relationship with stakeholders, and receive feedback on your thinking.
Use the inspiration and tips from these posts to improve your business writing. However, it’s impossible to become a better business writer without practice. With these lessons in mind, take the next step and start to publish.