{"id":211,"date":"2007-10-27T13:57:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T03:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/10\/positive-or-negative\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T06:51:36","slug":"positive-or-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/10\/positive-or-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive or negative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I&#8217;d prefer to ignore the election campaign, it is here and I have noticed numerous ads around. And I am surprised (as I am at every election, lol!) as how negative much of the campaigning is.<\/p>\n<p>In business and as a writer, I would never criticise a competitor (mine or for a client) to try to win sales. I believe it is much better to show my strengths and abilities instead of showing how good I am at complaining about others &#8211; this builds trust in my skills obviously, and lets clients know if I offer a service they need.<\/p>\n<p>Spouting negatives about competitors surely makes me look insecure or bitter or incompetent (because I don&#8217;t have enough positives to talk about), or all of them!<\/p>\n<p>Politicians never seem to learn this simple business principle &#8211; and it makes me think of politicians as children!<\/p>\n<p>So, don&#8217;t copy the politicians, and use positives in your writing!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Word Constructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com\/images\/banner5.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Word Constructions\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"About Word Constructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com\/aboutus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Word Constructions ~ for all your business writing needs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I&#8217;d prefer to ignore the election campaign, it is here and I have noticed numerous ads around. And I am surprised (as I am at every election, lol!) as how negative much of the campaigning is. In business and as a writer, I would never criticise a competitor (mine or for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[324,664,665,79,666,403],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-criticism","tag-election","tag-insecurities","tag-negative","tag-politicians","tag-positive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}