Are you familiar with “My Fair Lady,” the musical/movie based on the premise that if you can teach a guttersnipe to talk like a lady, she’ll get treated like one? As a kid, the romantic rags-to-riches, changing places, feel of the piece really appealed to me. And I think there’s still some merit to the basic concept. … [Read more...]
Communication is a vital role in your success. Jobs have been won and lost over communication. Messages have been well received or poorly received based on how they are communicated. Email has given abilities to easily spread a message across a very wide audience in sub second response time. … [Read more...]
Specialization is the name of the game today. Even something like online marketing, which was once something of a specialization itself, is now broken down into, among other things, e-mail marketing, social media marketing and SEO marketing, which is in turn broken down into white hat and black hat SEO and… you get the drift. … [Read more...]
According to the good folks at the Twitter Power System blog, back in June the average Twitter user spent just a hair over 31 minutes a day on the site and was one of 61 million unique visitors in that month. Who knows how much time people spent on Facebook in June, but there were reportedly 122.5 million unique visitors to the site that month. … [Read more...]
Often one of the most difficult things to do at work is to have a positive, open channel of communication with the one who holds the most power and control over your current job success (besides yourself) – your boss. Most people realize there are certain things they can and can not say to their boss or manager, and that’s true. But, in fact, there are many things that you can and should be saying to your boss, if you want to have a rewarding relationship with him or her, and if you want to … [Read more...]
This week I had a realization. One hour is just too long for a conference call. Yet, as a virtual telecommuting employee, my calendar is filled with neat, little one hour conference call time slots from sun up to sun down. As I look at my schedule, I can tell you exactly which calls are the focused ones where I know I’ll have to pay 100% attention and be fully engaged. I can also tell you which ones will be spent randomly chatting for half of the hour, allowing me ample multi-tasking … [Read more...]
