Seriously learn how to spell Brendon or at least take the time to review posts before publishing them. It's annoying to read, shows a lack of attention to detail, reflects poorly on your professionalism which all reduces your credibility to the readers, any of whom could be a potential client or buyer of one of your books. Lift your game!

Geeez mate. Relax. It's a couple of typos. Sure, it's not great, but it's a couple of typos.

Play the ball not the man Brendon.

If you are going to put anything in the public arena (eg. a weblog communicating your opinion to an audience) it is open to analysis and criticism.

You should be thankful that I bothered to take the time to make a comment for your benefit, it wasn't my business that looked unprofessional because of typos. The immediate audience feedback is one of the greatest benefits weblogs offer and just dismissing the valuable audience feedback which you have now acted upon anyway is rude. Not all comments can be 110% positive.

If any one of my comments were unjust or without basis then you would not have corrected the typos or just told me why I was wrong to leave the comment I did.

When you deliver your kind of "tell it like it is" advice about other people's marketing and business practices as you often do Brendon, your audience develops a very high level of expectations of your own ability. I'm sure I could find many weblogs entries here where you state it's the "little things" that help build up an image of a company/person in consumer's minds and this was one of those "little things" that you failed to deliver to the level expected.

Take feedback and criticism as something you can learn from and use.

Fair enough.

"Seriously learn how to spell Brendon or at least take the time to review posts before publishing them. It's annoying to read, shows a lack of attention to detail, reflects poorly on your professionalism which all reduces your credibility to the readers, any of whom could be a potential client or buyer of one of your books. Lift your game!"

I'd hardly call that advice, that's a cold, hard telling off! As we're talking about the "little things", rewording that so that you don't come off as a jackass could have made that "advice" a little more welcome.

"Brendon, I noticed you tend to have a lot of spelling mistakes in the blog. I know you've got other things to do, but these spelling errors really do make you come off as less professional that I know you really are. I think if you eliminated these errors you could increase your credibility to your readers, many of whom could be potential clients or buyers of your books."

Now something tells me that if you had worded it like that, it'd been a bit better received.

Work on the little things, it'll take you a long way ;D

I don't read this blog for Brendon's typography; I read it because he's a fount of wisdom.

And if he went a week without a typo I'd think the girls had him locked up somewhere and were ghost writing for him!

well put. My thoughts exactly.

Well the site isn't just a blog. The site is the corporate home of Tailored Consulting and has people arriving here from outside of the blogosphere (eg. from Brendon's recent unsuccessful newspaper advertising) which may have different views to those expressed by you on typos.

I still stand by the fact that I was annoyed by the contant mistakes and for Brendon's benefit I took advantage of a feedback option here on the website to express that to the author.

If Brendon agrees then he can fix the mistakes (which he has already done) and maybe pay more attention to detail in the future. If he doesn't agree that typos or spelling mistakes don't look unprofessional to this website's audience (blog readers + potential clients) then he can do nothing and continue to spend money on newspaper ads which drive traffic to a website that the visitor's first impression is that of a marketing company/professional that can't spell.

Perhaps Brendon is only human, like the author of the above comment, and is open to human error.

Didn't you mean constant mistakes rather than contant mistakes?????

"...maybe pay more attention to detail in the future."

You have a point, I just don't think that being insulting and rude is the best way to go about addressing it.

If you don't like the blog, don't read it. Quite a simple solution. If you do like the blog, then why be rude to the author?

Actually I can help with both lol.

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Stay safe till soon all :)

Bruce