{"id":2815,"date":"2011-09-14T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T00:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2011-10-17T14:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T03:01:31","slug":"writing-efficiently-saves-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/09\/writing-efficiently-saves-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing efficiently saves money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the fewest words possible to communicate the message simply is my writing ideal, and I have been known to edit many documents to be well under 50% of their original length. One example that comes to mind is a 75 A4 page text-only disclosure document I converted into 24 A5 pages with pictures!<\/p>\n<p>So I found it very interesting to read a report from Ron Denholm about the <a title=\"costs of writing in efficiently\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/RonaldDenholm\/the-hidden-economy-of-inefficient-writing-6584999\" target=\"_blank\">costs of inefficient writing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, Ron shows than reducing document size (through more concise content) by 34% in a business setting can save businesses $153 per document in reading time for a team of 100 (that adds up to $3,060 saved over 20 documents &#8211; scary amount!)<\/p>\n<p>Next time you write a report, will you edit out the wasted words to be more efficient?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the fewest words possible to communicate the message simply is my writing ideal, and I have been known to edit many documents to be well under 50% of their original length. One example that comes to mind is a 75 A4 page text-only disclosure document I converted into 24 A5 pages with pictures! So [&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":[53,60],"tags":[1111,1338,1339,1721],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","category-writing","tag-costs","tag-inefficient","tag-report","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}