{"id":1496,"date":"2008-04-02T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/words-to-avoid\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T14:20:01","slug":"words-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/words-to-avoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Words To Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/content\/newsletter\/relativewords.htm#relativewords\">JustSell.com offers a list of words to avoid<\/a> in your qualifying activities (both written and spoken).\u00a0 This is a pet peeve of mine so I was elated to see such a comprehensive list.\u00a0 A few of my favorites, or should I say least favorite?<\/p>\n<p>a lot<br \/>\nbetter<br \/>\ncheap<br \/>\nclose<br \/>\nearly<br \/>\nexpensive<br \/>\nin a minute \/ second \/ while<br \/>\noccasionally<br \/>\nprobably<br \/>\nsoon<br \/>\nsort of<br \/>\nvery<\/p>\n<p>I would add &#8220;really&#8221; to the list.\u00a0 Ok, why is this important?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let the JustSell guys explain:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asked, &#8220;When can you have that for me?&#8221; in a business setting, a specific date and time is your best answer. Anyone in a leadership role will tell you that &#8220;soon&#8221;, &#8220;later&#8221;, or even &#8220;next week&#8221; doesn&#8217;t help them understand when you&#8217;ll have that for them. Say, &#8220;Tuesday before 10 am.&#8221; That&#8217;s helpful.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tough one (your tough is probably different from ours, we understand). But minimizing your use of relative words can help you become much more effective and a better resource to your prospects, customers, and colleagues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JustSell.com offers a list of words to avoid in your qualifying activities (both written and spoken).\u00a0 This is a pet peeve of mine so I was elated to see such a comprehensive list.\u00a0 A few of my favorites, or should I say least favorite? a lot better cheap close early expensive in a minute \/ second \/ while occasionally probably soon sort of very I would add &#8220;really&#8221; to the list.\u00a0 Ok, why is this important?\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let the JustSell guys explain: Asked, &#8220;When can you have that for me?&#8221; in a business setting, a specific date and time is your best answer. Anyone in a leadership role will tell&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/04\/words-to-avoid\/\">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":[490,491,492,489,488],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-o8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"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! -->