Prompt Proofing Blog Post: Writing Tips - Cliches Are Not for Business

    VANCOUVER, BC, September 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cliches have no place in business communications - for many reasons. Apart from anything else, cliches generally do not equal quality writing; additionally, the meaning of some cliches, familiar as they may seem to the writer, will not necessarily be clear to every reader, particularly if the reader is from a different country or culture.

I think we're both on the same page here; I can let you have a ballpark figure of the approximate cost by tomorrow.

I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth but we would need some verification before we could proceed. Drop me a line and let me know.

My apologies, it seems we really dropped the ball on that one.

While the meaning of the above may be perfectly clear to us, readers from a different culture might be puzzled by some of these phrases. Clarity should be the primary consideration in any business communication. Even if the reader does understand the implication, the writing is too colloquial for most formal business purposes.

There's always a better way to write.

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