Description: The first online social dictionary. Upload photos, tag, and rate your favorite words.
blog (30127) social (8364) upload (8267) word (1600) words (1488) profile (1429) dictionary (801) thesaurus (114) define (84) synonym (41)
Whether you’re trying to grow your business, building your brand, or just establishing an online presence, minor details like spelling and grammar can have an outsized effect on the way people perceive you.
Consider a recent study by a London-based digital communications agency. Researchers surveyed over 1,000 web users in the U.K., and they found that close to half of all respondents would be most influenced by spelling or grammar blunders in social media posts meant to promote businesses. Similarly, Website Planet reports that business websites with poor grammar and spelling errors lose almost double the number of potential customers through “bounce-back” compared to good-grammar sites in the United States.
The damage goes beyond commerce. One study of LinkedIn profiles in the Harvard Business Review found fewer grammar errors were associated with more promotions, less frequent job changes, and greater professional success. Some business executives even said that they view grammar as a sign of high professionalism and potential. Because hiring managers check social media. If people who write posts have poor grammar and spelling, hiring managers can penalize them.