Still room for odd book titles
The wonderfully quirky Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year has a new winner: Managing a Dental Practice the Genghis Khan Way, by Michael R. Young. The prize is given by British trade magazine The Bookseller, a leading trade magazine for the book industry....
Want people to do what you ask? Explain why
I’m sitting in my curtained cubicle, in jeans and a drafty cotton hospital gown, waiting for the technician to usher me in for a mammogram. I’ve had this procedure before and know enough not to wear deodorant, which can apparently leave tiny deposits on...
An unpaid bill tells more about you than you think
In two short weeks, I will encounter a milestone, of sorts, not seen in 21 years of independent business: an invoice that is one year past due. In most cases like this, you’d write off that invoice as something that never will get paid. Half of me is resigned to...
In praise of women on International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day to all the fabulous women in my life. You are my friends, my inspiration, my support, my joy. You are brave and strong, beautiful and caring, funny and fun, whether you know it or not (I’m especially looking at you, Mom!). Of...
How to make the most of LinkedIn
There’s an art to using LinkedIn to promote yourself and your business, and social media strategist Jaime Almond told a record crowd of IABC Professional Independent Communicators and guests all about it. First, you might be interested to know that LinkedIn has more...Who’s into blogging?
You’ll typically hear death notices for blogging (“blogging is dead”) every year or two, but it’s interesting that — like much that’s related to technology — the means of sharing thoughts online just keeps morphing into...It’s bathrobe day
Today’s the day: Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day. Although I am not actually in my bathrobe right now, I could be, and that’s the whole point. Learn more about that in my last post about it.
It’s okay to follow up
(Updated April 13, 2016.) You’re tired of getting phone calls from strangers trying to sell you duct cleaning, aren’t you? But if you know a great esthetician, don’t you want to find out that she’s moved to a different salon? Of course you do....