--- title: Don’t Settle for Marketing Content That Is Just “Good” description: Here are some tips to improve the writing of your marketing content. image: https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog%20418%20Content.jpg --- [![](https://www.jonespr.net/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog%20418%20Content.jpg) ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/dont-settle-for-marketing-content-that-is-just-good) # Don’t Settle for Marketing Content That Is Just “Good” BY:   [ Kristin Jones ](https://www.jonespr.net/eight-arms-blog/author/kristin-jones) ![Don’t Settle for Marketing Content That Is Just “Good”](https://www.jonespr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog%20418%20Content.jpg?width=1688&name=Blog%20418%20Content.jpg "Don’t Settle for Marketing Content That Is Just “Good”") In college, the head of the journalism department had a few pet peeves. And she made sure incoming freshmen knew what those were from the start. Wasn’t that nice of her? Nice. Such an innocuous word. Unassuming. Bland. Meaningless. And totally unacceptable in any story submitted to Mrs. P. To this day, I will search my brain for any other word to substitute in place of “nice” when writing. And so should you. Banish “nice,” along with its boring cousins “good,” “sad,” “happy” and a dozen others. They aren’t necessary when you can choose more precise and evocative options from those listed by [GrammarCheck](http://www.grammarcheck.net/boring-words/). ![Don’t Settle for Marketing Content That Is Just “Good”](https://www.jonespr.net/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Images/Blog418boring-words.jpg?width=550&name=Blog418boring-words.jpg "Don’t Settle for Marketing Content That Is Just “Good”") I understand how easily we can all backslide into using the most common, convenient and admittedly, boring, words when cranking out marketing content day after day (5 blog posts a week, right here!). 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