Category: professional development
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Email Tips and Tricks
With the accelerating pace of an “always-connected” society, attention is ever more difficult to obtain. Social media, texts, phone calls, voice mails, chat conversations, and emails vie endlessly for our attention. Add to that a deluge of advertisements, blogs, streaming media, television, radio, newspapers, magazines, music, apps, and video games – and it’s amazing that…
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Should You Compromise on Price?
Perhaps you’re a newly-minted freelancer searching for online jobs, to build your portfolio. Or you’re a hungry consultant, trying to land your next gig. A prospective client approaches you, likes your work, and wants your skills for their budding enterprise. There’s just one catch: they don’t have much money. You’re assured that ultimately, however, their…
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Business Writing Tips
Eleven “Power Points” That Will Help You Write Now Don’t be intimidated by a blank page. Getting started is usually the hardest part of any writing project. Here’s how to produce highly-effective business writing in minimal time.
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Become a Better Public Speaker
by Mike Matera “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain Don’t Read This Unless Public Speaking Makes You Anxious It can happen at any moment. You may be asked to give a presentation. Perhaps your colleagues want you to say a few words at the office party.…