Category: Business writing

Business writing
22 July 2023

Chu’s Asian Restaurant, Unley

Vietnamese Chinese fusion that sings! I’ve written before about Chu’s Vietnamese Chinese restaurant in my Google Reviews. Had a wonderful evening here with three friends. Food was fabulous, the Pinot Gris was excellent, the host/owner was witty and knowledgeable. Will definitely come back, many times. ——— Months later: Have been back many times. Owner Wen and her chef are wonderful. I lived for two years […]

AI Business writing Creative Writing
9 March 2023

AI and writers

What are we as writers if not improvisers? Some of us plan out our work, filling in every gap before putting fingers to keyboard, others of us are ‘pantsers’, writers who write by the seat of their pants, never knowing what’s going to happen next, but trusting in their muse that inspiration will strike. Both types of writers, I contend, are reliant on improvisation more […]

AI Business writing Creative Writing
9 March 2023

AI *WILL* disrupt writers, and sooner than you think

As a retired business communicator with some 30 years of experience behind me building websites, blogs and providing the content for them, I had left the Business Communication profession behind and embraced my photography and my Masters degree in Creative Writing & Communication. So, when AI came across my horizon, I was ill-prepared for its importance and its ground-shaking nature. Most in my former profession […]

AI Business writing Creative Writing
23 February 2023

Writing at the gates of an AI dawn

WOW! This comment from 2022: “Two-thirds of Australian authors are women—our new research finds they earn just $18,000 from their writing” Zwar, Throsby and Crosby, The Conversation 2022 You can’t even live off that! It’s below the poverty line, methinks. And yet, digital writing for businesses is booming: “Aussies with digital marketing skills in hot demand, up 34% in just six months.” B&T.com.au, October 20, […]

Business writing
19 December 2021

Secrets of master communicators: 11-15

In our previous communications we looked at ten persuasive techniques that advanced communicators use to influence us. Today we look at another five. Eleven Firstly, scarcity. Here’s a fun experiment from the 1970s—procure two identical glass cookie jars. In one jar put ten cookies, in the other, two. Same cookies. Now invite friends to tell you which cookies from which jar taste better. You will […]

Business writing
15 December 2021

Secrets of powerful communicators: Influencers 6-10

In our previous article, we looked at five persuasive techniques that advanced communicators use to influence us. Today we look at another five. Firstly, there’s social role expectations. Try this: place someone in an environment, in a role you have asked them to play but they don’t necessarily have experience in playing. Very often they will perform in that role above expectation. Similarly, telling someone […]

Business writing
13 December 2021

Secrets of persuasion: how to positively influence your message recipients

According to Andrews, Van Leeuwen and Van Baaren, there are thirty-three hidden persuaders that powerful communicators use to get the results they want. In this article, I list five of the most powerful. 1. Acknowledging resistanceYou may find this hard to believe, but simply acknowledging that the recipient of our communication is going to have objections is key to them overcoming them themselves. They may […]

Business writing Nonverbal
4 December 2021

Nonverbal communication and space: why your office is the size it is

In an interesting book entitled The Hidden Dimension,  anthropologist Edward T. Hall discusses space, how people structure it, and how space influences communication. “Proxemics” is the term Hall has coined for the interrelated observations and theories of man’s use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture. One use of space with which most of you are familiar is someone’s favourite chair. Frequently it is Dad […]

Business writing Nonverbal
4 December 2021

5 ways to structure a presentation for maximum effect

When creating an outline structure for a presentation we are about to give — whether that presentation is in writing, via personal delivery, or via multimedia — there are five basic ways to organise that structure for maximum effect: by Time by Space by Problem & Solution by Cause & Effect by Motivation Let’s consider each in turn. 1. Structuring your presentation by Time Let’s suppose that your presentation is on […]