By now, many social media managers have realized a hardnosed reality: Most subject matter experts within the corporate walls don’t have time (or the skills) to blog. So you have two choices:
- Write/edit their blogs for them (and give up the rest of your life since writing is very time consuming)
- Hire a specialist or “real writer” to write for them.
That would be a journalist or professional business writer. (I use these interchangeably, even though there are some solid business writers who were never journalists.)
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Suzanne Norman, director of brand at Emma, an email marketing and communications company.
The bot problem
Let’s face it: most companies write marketing copy for the web and email that reads like it was written by a robot.
And nobody likes bots. (See: spambots, twitbots, fembots, that 80s movie with Emilio Estevez where all the semi-trucks come to life.)
photo by davedehetre
I spot this kind of writing all the time in email marketing campaigns — that’s the realm I work in — but it’s just as rampant in every other digital medium.