Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less

4.5 | 2,140 ratings

Price: 12.96

Last update: 01-10-2025

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Lunafusion

Smart Brevity is a game-changer

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024

Smart Brevity is a game-changer for anyone seeking to elevate their communication skills effortlessly.

This book exceeded all my expectations. Initially borrowed from the library to support my local community, Smart Brevity quickly became an indispensable addition to my personal library. Its practical approach, filled with insightful examples, transformed how I approach writing. The format, with its concise headlines and optional expanded content, not only enhanced clarity but also empowered me to engage readers effectively. Whether drafting emails or newsletters, Smart Brevity is my go-to guide for crafting compelling and succinct messages. Highly recommend it to anyone seeking to enhance their writing prowess effortlessly.

larry

Best Book on Writing Ever

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024

This book is easy to follow and implement the lessons.

Why It Matters: With Smart Brevity you will save writing time and communicate directly without graffiti and BS.

Lisa D. Piper

Useful. Well done. Worth reading.

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024

Excellent ideas and the book is perfection in style.
Easy read.
Will refer to it often.

*I deducted a star for use of potty words. Made sense to me that they could have been left out due to the nature of the book.

David Meerman Scott

Stop vomiting onto the page

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2022

“Never in the history of humanity have we vomited more words in more places with more velocity,” say the authors of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less.

We’re all super busy. At the same time, smartphones deliver a flood of content. The key to breaking through is to create bit-sized content that gets noticed. Like TikTok. And like what Smart Brevity teaches.

I love this brand-new book! In it, the founders of two hot media startups — Axios and Politico — share their transformative methods for punching through the noise to get people to pay attention to what matters most.

Smart Brevity means: Write muscular headlines, six strong words or fewer. Create a memorable opening sentence. Provide context, why does this matter? Eliminate fluff and gobbledygook. Point people to where they can learn more.

I need this help. Readers of this blog know that I often write too long. My headlines contain too many words. Sometimes it is tough for me to get to the point.

I pre-ordered Smart Brevity because I am an Axios fan.

Over the years, I’ve subscribed to dozens of email newsletters from media companies. No doubt, you have too. Most of them aren’t worth my time, so I unsubscribe. However, Axios email newsletters are super valuable, so much so that I now subscribe to several. Why? Because they are brief and to the point. At the top, each has a Smart Brevity™ count of the word count and the time require to read.

Smart Brevity helped me. Perhaps it will help you too.

Norris Chase

great simple book

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024

Read it quickly and applied it immediately. I plan to download the software and work with my team at work and at home to improve the response.

S. Ben-Meyer

High Cost for Brevity

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2024

This book is very well laid out, but it could be even shorter. The highlights are in the summaries after each chapter which allow you to go back and easily find the main points of the book. It is an outline for good writing that is expensive for what it provides.

Senad P.

Excellent, brief read

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2024

As the title says - brevity. Quick, excellent brief but important read. Read the book on my flight to SFO. Straight to the point. Bit fluffy at the start (selling after the sale) - maybe teaching us how not to write.

Daniel

Immediate results

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2024

I bought this book because my written communication style is still long and confusing. I started implementing its principles half way with potential clients and I saw a noticeable increase in leads.

I will visit their website (suggestion at the very last chapter) because I agree that simple communication gets more attention and stays longer in other people's memory. 5/5

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