How You Can Proofread Your Own Work

Written by Nita L. Ammon


Producing a high quality product is a given these days. With allrepparttar competition out there, you have to look great in every aspect. Proofreading all copy is extremely important and here are some tips to help you to proofread your own work:

Read through your copyrepparttar 144172 next day -- many times your eyes tend to 'deceive' you by reading what's supposed to be there rather than what may actually be there! Reading it a day or two later helps you to look at your copy with a fresh perspective!

Use 'spell check', which is available on most programs. Although they're not perfect, they will help you to find many errors.

Print it out. Reading it in print can many times help you catch things you didn't catch onrepparttar 144173 screen.

If at all possible, have someone else read it. They can catch sentences that may be too long, be unclear, etc. You knowrepparttar 144174 point you're trying to make in your copy, but if others don't understand it, rewrite it so it's more clear to everyone.

There are a lot of questions aboutrepparttar 144175 hyphen (-) versus dash (--) and here'srepparttar 144176 basic rule:

A hyphen is used when you are putting two words together or adding a prefix to a word.

Here are some examples: twenty-four, re-signed or long-time.

A dash is used when you're interjecting into a sentence (such as, "I love takingrepparttar 144177 dog for a walk -- especially on warm days -- because it is great exercise for us both.").

In many programs a dash will look like a long hyphen instead of two hyphens next to each other. Dashes are also many times used in place of parentheses in more informal writing.

Punctuation inside or outsiderepparttar 144178 quotes? Here'srepparttar 144179 basic rule for this one: if you're using a comma or a period, they go insiderepparttar 144180 closing quotation mark. Colons and semicolons go outsiderepparttar 144181 closing quotation mark.

Question marks and exclamation marks are different and depend on how they are being used. If you are directly quoting someone and a question mark or quotation mark is needed because what you're quoting is a question or exclamation, it would go insiderepparttar 144182 quote.

The Management Team Section of the Business Plan – Don’t Just Include Resumes

Written by Dave Lavinsky


Evenrepparttar best new concept or existing plan will fail if executed poorly. The Management Team section ofrepparttar 144171 business plan must prove torepparttar 144172 investor whyrepparttar 144173 key company personnel are "eminently qualified" to execute onrepparttar 144174 business model.

The Management Team section should include biographies of key team members and detail their responsibilities. It is important that these biographies are not merely resumes that includerepparttar 144175 educational backgrounds and previous job titles and responsibilities ofrepparttar 144176 team members. Rather, biographies should highlightrepparttar 144177 most relevant past positions thatrepparttar 144178 individuals have held and specific successes in each. These successes could include launching and growing new businesses or managing divisions of established companies.

Team member biographies should be tailored torepparttar 144179 company's growth stage. For instance, a start-up company should emphasize its management's success launching and growing companies. A more mature company should emphasize how team members have successfully operated withinrepparttar 144180 framework of larger enterprises.

Depending uponrepparttar 144181 stage ofrepparttar 144182 company, key functional areas may be missing fromrepparttar 144183 team. This is acceptable provided thatrepparttar 144184 plan clearly definesrepparttar 144185 roles that these individuals will play and identifiesrepparttar 144186 key characteristics ofrepparttar 144187 individuals that will be hired. However, it is generally not favorable if personnel are missing for ultra-critical roles. For example, a plan that is fundamentally a marketing play should not seek financing without a stellar marketing team.

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