Even if spelling and grammar aren’t your thing, you need to make an effort to get it right when you’re communicating with your clients or you risk giving the impression that you’re careless and lack attention to detail. Here are 4 things you can do to fake being a spelling and grammar expert, or at least to give the right impression to your customers.
- Use Google Voice Search when you have no idea how to spell something. Click (or tap) the microphone icon in the search bar and say the word. Google will then spell it out in the search bar.
- Use Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com (or Grammarly) to make sure the word you’re using is correct, or to find alternative words that work better. One of my pet peeves is people who try to use big words, but don’t know what they mean. Particularly, people who use ‘pacific’ instead of ‘specific’. It only takes a couple of seconds to double check, but it makes a big difference.
- Hire someone to take care of it for you. Hire someone to work on-site or remotely that can proofread, handle correspondence and write blog posts for you. If you really hate dealing with written words, get someone else to do it. I really can’t overstate how important it is to give a good impression in communications with your customers. If it looks like you don’t care – customers will assume you don’t care about anything.
- Read your text out loud. If it sounds strange, the spelling & grammar are probably incorrect. This is one of the best tips I’ve ever had. Read everything out loud, (or in your head as if you were saying it out loud) and see how it sounds. If it sounds funny, you’ve probably made a mistake somewhere.
All of these will help you fake being a spelling and grammar expert and let your customers know that do you care about the impression you give..