Letting her little light shine!

Sometimes you just can't hide your light under a bushel. You have to let it shine.

Today, my associate at Correct Me If I'm Wrong, Sharon Farber, received this testimonial as a consequence of the outstanding job she did for one of our clients. I'm publishing it here because I think the world of her and I want you to find out how special she is in the words of someone who received no personal benefit from writing this rave letter. Here it is.

As President/CEO of Thrombovision, Inc. I would like to offer a testimonial of my experience with Sharon Farber of Correct Me If I’m Wrong in writing the Business Plan for ThromboVision. Sharon demonstrated a great deal of professionalism and handled each and every task with deft attention to detail. She left no question unanswered, left nothing to chance and went well beyond our expectations in accomplishing our goals on time and within the allocated budget. As a novice in our industry, she was a quick study in learning our technology. Sharon’s close attention to detail and team approach working with us resulted in a world class document with the requisite underlying spreadsheets to credibly showcase our company. I recommend her without reservation.

Edward R. Teitel
MD, JD, MBA
President / CEO
ThromboVision Inc.
www.thrombovision.com

Now, wouldn't you be proud to work with someone like that?

The benefits of dyslexia

Last night I heard the funniest pick-up line ever.

We were sitting with our friends, John and Jane, at a restaurant, when John nudged his wife and said, "Look at her," indicating a woman at a nearby table. I looked too, of course, but didn't see anything particularly noteworthy. His wife looked and said, "Oh, sweetie. You remembered! She's wearing our T-shirt."

Now, I've heard of our song, our restaurant, our favorite beach, and countless other variations, but never our T-shirt. There had to be a story. And there was.

It seems that John and Jane had met countless years ago as tourists abroad. They happened to be staying at the same hotel and had each independently ended up at a casual event being held there for a visiting diplomat. Jane came to the party wearing a Chanel 5 T-shirt. You know... the perfume. Not knowing anyone at the party, John looked around and decided to approach this young woman who had caught his eye. Assuming that the press were covering the event, he went over to her and said, "Do you work for Channel 5?"

She cracked up!

The rest is history.

It was only later that she discovered he was dyslexic. Sometimes, there are some concrete benefits to having a reading disability.

Equal to none or Unequalled?

"Our service is equal to none!"

Oh, really? Well, I guess I'll go elsewhere.

I came across this gem in a client's writing today and I just had to comment.

The sentence as written means that the service is at the bottom of the heap. It literally says that the service is equal to no service.

What the client meant to say was that no other company can provide a service that comes up to my client's standard. It should have read "Our service is unequalled!"

English is a tricky language.