Category Archives: Business Writing

Top tips for Business Writing. Learn how to write reports, proposals, emails, and other types of writing used to communicate with different audiences. Business writing is a also known as business communication and professional writing.

10 Step Disaster Recovery Plan

Where to start if you have to create a disaster recovery plan from scratch? We recommend that clients identify the most important items first – that is, what must be recovered – then look at how to recover the other assets you’ll need to get up and running. In this tutorial, we’re going to look […]

Final Release Report Form – Word Template – Software Testing

Final Release Report form. Prepare final reports at the end of the software testing project. Includes release reports, bug reports, closed status, test status, and details on the outstanding risk/issues. File Format: Word. Final Release Report Form – Word Template This template is part of the Software Testing Template pack. Learn more about the Software Testing Templates. More […]

How to Start a Business Blog (with no budget)

How can you develop a blog for your new business? Elli from Botswana wrote in to ask how she could develop a blog writing framework for her new accountancy business. She says, ‘Writing article after article is a bit of a grind. Is there some way I can speed up what I’ve written or re-use […]

How (and When) To Use ‘Please’ in Government Forms

How can you write government documents that are polite but also firm? For example, should you use Please on application forms? Yes? But how often? Is it possible that you can over-do the politeness so that it clutters the page and gets in the way of the applicant? For example, you know when somehow is simply […]

1 Minute Writing Tips: Writing an Executive Summary

What’s an Executive Summary? Think of it as a sales pitch. It’s designed to encourage the reader to turn the page and read the rest of the document. How do you do this? What’s its purpose? Its purpose is to: Highlights the major points of the report Describes any results, conclusions, or recommendations from the […]

How to Write Abstracts – Part 3

Looking for abstract writing guidelines? In this tutorial, we look at how you can write better abstracts for business and technical documents. Learn more about this Business Plan template Here are some guidelines to get you started: One idea per paragraph – keep to one idea per paragraph. This keeps the reader oriented. It also […]

How to Overcome Business Writer’s Block

Business Writer’s Block is what? Well, it tends to happen when you’re in a hurry, flustered, or tried. ‘If you don’t understand it, you can’t write it.’ This isn’t totally true. You can write something — it mightn’t be great — by distracting the reader, playing with clever words, and showing off. But others see […]

Is Freelance Writing For You?

Think you’re good enough to be a freelance writer? Here’s a quick test (and a framework to stand out from the herd). Google your blog. Click on the first article it shows. That’s what most people will click on. Close your eyes a little bit, like you’re squinting, and scan the article. Now, ask yourself: […]

Plantilla de Plan de Acción – MS Office + Apple iWork

Utilice esta plantilla para el Plan de Acción Identificar lo que quiere lograr, priorizar y realizar un seguimiento. Este paquete de plantillas de plan de acción incluye una plantilla de 14 páginas y 7 hojas (14 page template y 7 spreadsheets) de cálculo para organizar sus actividades del cronograma. Plantilla de Plan de Acción – […]