John Sturtevant launches The Best of The Worst - The search for America's worst business writing.

April 3, 2007 - PRLog -- Houston TX April 3, 2007 – Attention Office Workers of America. Here’s your chance to show the world just how bad it gets.

You know those mystifying memos you receive from your company president? Or the excruciatingly obscure emails your sales manager sends? Or the cryptic instructions from your IT department?

Well now you can put all those maddening messages to good use. Submit them to The Best of The Worst - The Search for America’s Worst Business Writing.

(If you’re really brave, submit your own writing.)

“By exposing horrible business writing to the American public in a funny and blatantly candid way,” Sturtevant said, “I hope to finally cure American business people’s obsession with obfuscation.”

Sturtevant will share the oddest examples with his online audience, and then offer clear ideas on how everyone can learn to think clearly & write what they mean
 
“This isn’t a search for bloopers and goofs,” Sturtevant added. “We’re hunting for business people who take themselves much too seriously. The ones who torture their co-workers with tedious, complex, confusing, vague and just plain old boring emails, reports, proposals and pages of useless words. Office floors across the country are cluttered with the stuff! And we’re here to clean it up!”

John Sturtevant’s production company Say What? Productions is co-creating The Best of The Worst with one of the nation’s most audacious marketing companies, Boston-based Mothers of Invention, whose transformational marketing strategies have whupped hundreds of pretty-good companies into world-series shape.

“If anyone can handle this with style, insight, and the kind of slap-in-the-face honesty it takes, John is the man,” said Mothers of Invention founder, Robert Rosenthal, who shares his unconventional thinking on marketing and business with lucky companies every day.

To submit your worst examples of terrible business writing visit www.bestoftheworst.us  and use the handy online Official Best of The Worst Entry Form.

We’ll read all the entries we receive (if we can stomach it). Then once a month we’ll pick the most horrible example as our Winning Loser.

The Real Winner (that’s you) will receive a colorful new iPod.

Plus we’ll read the Winning Loser’s writing on camera and publish the video on YouTube (and on The Best of The Worst web site) so the rest of the world can suffer through it too.

(Hey, you shouldn’t have to endure that stuff alone.)

Plus, we’ll revise the offending document using Sturtevant’s Principles of Clear Writing then return it to you in much better shape.

Oh, by the way, nobody at The Best of The Worst, or among the people we know and love, assumes any responsibility whatsoever if you send us your boss’s writing and he or she gets mad and fires you, or anything else bad happens.

The Best of The Worst – The Search for America’s Worst Business Writing is open to everyone, and business people are invited to submit horrible writing as often as they wish!

Submit your worst examples of blah business writing online at www.bestoftheworst.us  

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