Branding for Business Don't get me wrong...branding is a good thing if you want to buy a car, reach for a soda ("pop" is what it's called in Chicago), buy a cool Smart Phone, etc. But all I seem to see are tweets, posts, articles and books about "sel
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Business etiquette lesson. Excellent tips. A lost art has been "found". One of the iterations of the old-fashioned handwritten note, the love letter, now has its own radio show, Love Letters Live.
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Truth be told, I wrote How To Work a Room® because of a career change workshop I gave in 1984 when I was doing career consulting and writing for the local San Francisco Examiner's careers series. Informational Interview Backlash At the time, there were r
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"You don't need to go downtown to shop. Devon (in our Chicago neighborhood) has everything you want and they hire people from the neighborhood," admonished Dad. He was a big supporter of local retail and services in our community. He lamented that Mars
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Yes, schmooze is everywhere in the news. I get daily Google alerts when it appears in newspapers around the world. It's Yiddish and it means easy -going, relaxed conversation. It does NOT mean "making business contacts" nor does it mean "sales...
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If you want smart, hard-won tips from people who are on the front lines of our American economy, do yourself a favor and buy The Mom and Pop Store by Robert Spector (also author of the classic, The Nordstrom Way). While it's a memoir of sorts of the auth
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At last! Networking is finally getting it's just due. Those of us who were the early adopters and experts can take heart that the subject we knew was at the core of careers is now "in vogue." When I wrote The Secrets of Savvy Networking for Warner Book
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Career change workshop caused a career cHANGE. Informational Interview
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Great info from an expert, "I wrote How To Work a Room® because of a career change workshop I gave in 1984 when I was doing career consulting and writing for the local San Francisco Examiner's careers series."
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