To anyone writing a business proposal or business project, I cringe when I see obvious mistakes in spelling, punctuation, grammar, statistics, photos and photo captions. And here’s why. I spot them too easily. I was recently working with a web design company. They do good work, but when I looked at their website, I caught so many spelling errors and missing words that I wondered if anyone had taken the time to read it through. And what was worse, and I’m sure you’ve guessed it, I began to have doubts about how good they really were.

That’s the issue here. How good are you Can you be trusted If you submit a proposal to a client and there are errors that should have been caught, will they trust you with their $2 million, or $250,000, or $25,000 project That’s what errors do for me – they stretch my ability to trust people. » Read more: Error Proof Your Business Proposal or Business Project By Reading Your Work Out Loud