| When offering advice to someone who has asked to | | | | yet? |
| be advised about something, appears to cause a lot of | | | | Advice is what I give when I am advising them on how |
| confusion. Which always leaves me thinking twice | | | | to do a better marketing job of their services. |
| about the advice they offer when they are advising | | | | I think this problem occurs because people have |
| me. | | | | become too reliant on their spelling and grammar |
| I read a lot of information on the Internet, in articles | | | | checker on their computers. You see, both are real |
| (both bought and freebies) and am amazed by the | | | | words and are both spelt correctly for that word so |
| number of times I see this spelling error. In fact, I sort of | | | | the computer doesn't pick it up as an error. It's a bit like |
| feel now that it's me who is out of step with my | | | | George and Gorge. |
| language skills. But a quick trip to my off-line Oxford | | | | Now here's another interesting error possibility - in |
| Dictionary soon puts me at ease again. | | | | more ways than one. |
| You see, it works like this: When I am offering advice | | | | "Just suppose George went to the Gorge and while |
| to my Contractors - that is all I am doing - offering | | | | there he gorged himself on his packed lunch" |
| advice on how they can save time and improve their | | | | The computer would pass that as okay too because |
| marketing skills to get more jobs for less effort. | | | | there are no spelling or grammar errors in there. But |
| I am advising them on ways it can be done with ease | | | | gorging George while doing it in the Gorge, would be |
| and efficiency. My advice may not always be taken | | | | about as sick as that sentence - and George! |
| but it is still good advice and worth reading. And I do | | | | So my advice to you when advising people on a |
| differentiate the difference by saying that it is my | | | | course of action is to be sure you are giving them the |
| advice that I am advising them to do based on my | | | | best advice you can in what you are advising them to |
| experience in their market place. See the difference | | | | do. |