Industry jargon? Big words? Gobbledegook!
Clear and persuasive marketing requires clear and simple language, explains Ahava Liebtag.
Ahava, president of Aha Media Group, works primarily in the Healthcare space.
And even in her highly educated market, she knows that plain language is key to making connections with her clients… and with their clients.
In this video clip—from B2B Forum 2023—Ahava shares insights to writing with simplicity.
Watch this clip now, or read the transcript below.
Plain language builds solid relationships. It builds trust.
When somebody starts talking to you and they start using big words, do you ever think to yourself like, “okay, What T.F.” Right?
I want to talk to people who are people.
During the pandemic, I tried to get my kids to clean up the house. This was very unsuccessful. But one of the reasons it was so unsuccessful was because I hung up this sign in my kitchen that said:
And one day I was sitting in my kitchen looking at the mess, thinking, “what am I missing?”
And I realized I didn’t follow Web Writing Best Practice rules.
Because when they looked at [my sign], they didn’t see the end.
They just saw the beginning.
And so there are a lot of great web writing best practices that you can review that will make your language planar. Easier to read. More white space. Easily scannable. Talking in terms that people understand.
This is Dr. Tom Friedan, who used to run the C D C.
“An mRNA vaccine doesn’t actually contain the virus itself. Think of it as an email sent to your immune system that shows what the virus looks like and instructions to kill it. And then like a Snapchat message, it disappears. Amazing technology.”
When you can explain things using metaphors that people understand it’s very important.
Now, who is he talking to? When he wrote this, he was talking to Gen Z, right? He was talking to millennials. (I mean, I’m Gen X and I use Snapchat.) He knew who he was talking to.
Published 10/18/23
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