I do get up on my soap box about this because it’s my job. Clients trust me to make sure that the content on their website, ezine, marketing material is just right so that they can confidently publish it/use it etc. without people like me breathing down their necks.

If you’re a veg merchant, car salesman or musician then your job isn’t to look at grammar and spelling, it’s about selling tomatoes and cars and playing music. But if you’re advertising your wares on your attention to detail, commitment and writing ability, then it should matter that what you publish is incorrect.

That’s what gets me on to my soap box, that’s what gets me annoyed. I see it every day in emails that come into my in-box and wonder at the time it would take just to re-read and correct some glaring mistakes. And if you don’t have the time/inclination, hire someone that does.

I presume you don’t look at their website code and see that it’s bad? Because you’re not a web designer.

Do you look at their marketing strategy and decide not to work with them because they’ve ‘got it wrong’? Probably not, because you’re not in marketing.

Do you decide not to go into a shop because their windows aren’t clean enough? I doubt it, as you’re not a window cleaner and those shoes might be too nice to resist :)

I think you notice typos more because it’s your job. And I applaud you for that.

But if I were to choose my suppliers on their SEO / Social Media Marketing strategies, I wouldn’t have many suppliers, including my VA!

Personally I look at the value in what I am getting, whether I want or need the product and service, and leave it at that.

I have a thing about proper grammar and apostrophe use, but if I refused to buy oranges from every greengrocer that had a sign saying “Orange’s 50p a pound” then I would have a severe vitamin C deficiency!