Apologies in advance for what can only be described as a rant I really try not to be negative, but this really bothers me. Thanks for reading!

I've been noticing these AWFUL press releases and articles submitted and published by the VA "service centers" - they're usually in India, the Phillipines, etc. This particular company has an address in Florida - not hard to get to make it appear it's a U.S. company, but clearly whoever is in charge of their marketing does not have even a rudimentary command of the English language.

Do I sound harsh? Take a look at this and you'll see where I'm coming from.

The title alone "Best Services of Virtual Assistants" is enough to give it away, but read into the content and it just gets worse.
Here's a portion of the release in question:
"We can say that today’s world is rounding with the force of scientific technologies. One of the innovations from that science is Email (Electronic Mail Service). In the ancient history, we came to know that communication is made with the help of dove. Now email makes it simple with in the minutes. Any data may be transferred from one corner to another corner of the world with high speed net facility. Virtual assistant services are supporting you by sending immediate response to your email customers. A good response fulfils the customer satisfaction. It is the way of rectifying the problems arise from the usage of telephones."

HUH???

How many grammatical errors can you find? How many bizarrely unreadable turns of phrase can you find?
Imagine what a business owner who's thinking of working with a virtual assistant must think when reading this kind of thing.

What can we do about this? Other than to continue to put out well-written material, getting the point across that VAs are professionals with high standards I am at a loss... Thoughts?

One quick addition: This kind of material would NEVER make it past the editors at a press release site that cares about the content it publishes. Perhaps one direction would be to take issue with the sites that publish this kind of thing to the net.

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