Tips

I ran across this post today and really like it. Sometimes in the day-to-day stress of the job we need a little reminder. Treat clients like friends: Understand they have bad days, good days, days they need you and days they need to be left alone Give them a second chance if they make a [...]

Most people use three different sentence formats when they write. With only these three variations your writing can get monotonous. If you expand your repertoire to include six additional sentence formats your writing will automatically seem more sophisticated and be more appealing to the reader. Don’t let the “grammar” scare you, once you read the [...]

Social media marketing has become a a fairly standard part of marketing programs today for lot of companies and of course everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. If you haven’t made the leap yet, here are some very basic tips to get started.

If you’re in a rotation of last entered/first seen, don’t road block the other bloggers by posting multiple submissions one after another – give the other contributing bloggers a chance to be in the rotation

Send your cover letter and resume with clear direction as to which department you are interested in joining. When letters come in saying the writer wants a job “anywhere” in an ad agency it is clear that they don’t know the business well enough to know where they fit in.

So you’ve been publishing your blog in order to get some helpful information out there into the hands of those who might need it.  Then a commercial web site decides that they like your voice and are interested in republishing your blog.  That’s great.  But beware of one critical thing.  The tendency to want to [...]

Your blog is finally becoming established and you’ve started to notice that one individual is making comments fairly regularly. Perhaps you’ve scored your first fan.  But how engaged is this contributor if the main purpose of these frequent comments on your blog is really a thinly disguised opportunity to site that individual’s own blog.  That [...]

It’s tough out there. The competition is fierce. So if you are a small business owner, you need to leverage everything you can to get a leg up. If you are not currently leveraging technology to get the word out about your business, it’s time to start. It doesn’t require a lot of money and [...]

Don’t use words that exist in the dictionary. Don’t use simple number substitutes such as “0”s for “o”s or “1”s for “I”s. Don’t user obvious words for people or places you may know. Don’t use the same password for longer than two years. Use different passwords for public and private online services. For example, don’t [...]

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