{"id":1745,"date":"2008-10-01T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T20:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/lame-buzzwords\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T20:27:36","slug":"lame-buzzwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/lame-buzzwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Lame Buzzwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/content\/newsletter\/buzzwords.htm#buzz\">JustSell.com has a fantastic list of lame buzzwords<\/a> to avoid when selling (or speaking in general as far as I am concerned).\u00a0 Here is the setup straight from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A buzzword is &#8220;an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen.&#8221; \u2013Merriam-Webster<\/p>\n<p>Think about it&#8230; do statements full of buzzwords communicate anything specific to your prospects and customers? Do you like hearing buzzwords?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.\u00a0 And now for just a partial list of the buzzwords:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>benchmark<\/li>\n<li>best in class<\/li>\n<li>best practices<\/li>\n<li>change agent<\/li>\n<li>core competency<\/li>\n<li>cross-functional<\/li>\n<li>dynamic<\/li>\n<li>empower<\/li>\n<li>growth initiative<\/li>\n<li>interface<\/li>\n<li>metrics<\/li>\n<li>optimize<\/li>\n<li>paradigm shift<\/li>\n<li>partner<\/li>\n<li>proactive<\/li>\n<li>streamline<\/li>\n<li>synergy<\/li>\n<li>user-friendly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Metrics?\u00a0 Now I am insulted.\u00a0 &#8220;Synergy&#8221; has got to be the worst one in the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JustSell.com has a fantastic list of lame buzzwords to avoid when selling (or speaking in general as far as I am concerned).\u00a0 Here is the setup straight from the article: A buzzword is &#8220;an important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen.&#8221; \u2013Merriam-Webster Think about it&#8230; do statements full of buzzwords communicate anything specific to your prospects and customers? Do you like hearing buzzwords? Amen.\u00a0 And now for just a partial list of the buzzwords: \u00a0 benchmark best in class best practices change agent core competency cross-functional dynamic empower growth initiative interface metrics optimize paradigm shift partner proactive streamline synergy user-friendly Metrics?\u00a0 Now&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/10\/lame-buzzwords\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[691,1030,1031],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-s9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->