Why I couldn't care less about typos in emails
Published: Fri, 11/03/17
— Rocket Raccoon
“Guardians Of The Galaxy”
A few months ago a bloke was pestering about all the “typos” in my emails. He didn’t mean anything malicious about it. But, it was getting annoying.
(More annoying than typos.)
For 2 or 3 days straight he went out of his way to say, “there’s a typo” in different ways. Again, not maliciously. Just his nature probably.
So what did I do?
What I always tell people who complain about typos:
Nobody cares.
When he replied saying *he* cared, I simply said:
“If you are going to keep wasting my time nattering on about typos each day, then opt out and cancel your email players subscription or I will do it for you. It's simply not for you. Plenty of others you can learn from, instead. On the other hand, if you are open to learning and not just assuming, I've tested and written about this extensively, typos are a non-issue:”
Then listed several blog posts I’ve done about this.
(You can read them by going to my site and typing "typos" in the search)
He agreed he was open to learning and we were good after that.
Anyway, the point of this?
A lot of people who complain about typos should be more focused on writing better emails than having better spelling, grammar, and syntax.
They’ll make a lot more of the green stuff.
And, be less annoying.
Also, speaking of typos:
My bargain basement book store on Kindle is packed with books — short and long — riddled with typos.
But you know what?
That doesn’t stop smart people from profiting from them.
You can check out my cheap store books here:
http://www.BenSettle.com/kindle
Ben Settle