Whether you look at the proverbial glass as half empty or half full says a lot about you. Both in life and business, it’s what you do when you don’t get a full glass that counts. Savor What You Have Promises of great wealth and the easy life flourish all around us. Social media moguls [...]
The whole LeBron James spectacle made me wonder about the term loyalty, and whether or not it should apply. Senseless Dribble Even non-sports fans probably found it difficult to escape all the hype surrounding “The Decision” of where LeBron would play basketball. It culminated in an hour special on ESPN so LeBron could announce his [...]
New business blogs start every day. You may think you understand copyright issues, but do you really? It’s a lot more complicated than you might think. I thought I understood it – hey, I went to college. I understand plagiarism. However, there is much more to copyright infringements than copying and pasting someone else’s writing [...]
A recent online article in Inc., Why is Business Writing So Awful? received plenty of notice in the social media world. The author, Jason Fried, takes issue with the overworked, descriptive words used in business writing. Some of his examples may be on your Top 10 Worst list – value-added, full service solution. Business writing can certainly fall into [...]
So Don’t Let Bad Emails Kill Your Message Many predicted the death of business emails with the onset of social media. Not only has that not happened, but business emails have taken on new marketing strategy for social media users. That’s according to the View from the Social Inbox 2010, a report recently released by [...]
The Business Aversion to the Phone Just when did talking live go out of style? Some would blame it on the Twitter, Facebook, et al world we live in. I think it took hold even before the dawn of social media. I remember back in the Stone Age when customer service was a business letter and [...]
