Effective business writing skills can help you win that million dollar contract, earn a promotion, resolve a dispute, or generate a significant increase in new business leads. Poor business writing, on the other hand, can never be undone; it can cause you to lose business to your competition and even cost you your job. Here are 11 easy ways you can improve your business writing skills:
Piggotts Provide Support for the Tsunami
Piggotts, the Crown Groups marquee and furniture hire supplier provided two large hospitality marquees for a recent Tsunami Memorial Service at St Pauls Cathedral…
Seven Ways To Beat Procrastination
I am a student of Time Management and a big part of time management is beating procrastination. We all procrastinate, even those of us who pride ourselves in having good time management skills.
STAFF AND EMPLOYESS MOTIVATION
As a person with a position of decision making it is critical to provide direction to employees through staff motivation. Staff motivation is seldom an easy task as it involves working with a number of personalities & who come from different personal situations that can sometime be brought into they workplace
Be a Storyteller, Not Just a Speaker
Stories develop themes. The themes chosen to illustrate the possibility of stories are: Relationships, Choice, Creativity, Making a Difference, Celebration.
How to Give a Great Speech
As a former owner of a National Speakers Bureau, I have learned from several thousand professional speakers “How to Give a Great Speech.” Here are some techniques that I share with my coaching clients who want to become paid professional speakers or business professionals who want todeliver masterful presentations.
Focusing On Logo Design
Your corporate logo is extremely important, it represents your company and it is the center of your page design, so you’d better expend a lot of time on logo design.
Entrepreneurship: Getting Started
I started my company (EMJ) from the trunk of my car (and it was a small trunk so thats a small business). I grew EMJ to $375,000,000 in sales prior to selling it to SYNNEX. I am now CEO of a $1 billion business. My successful blog at (jimestill.com) generates a lot of comments and questions. I want to share one of these thoughtful questions with you, and share my answer.
A Consistent Corporate Identity ? Don’t Leave It To Chance
You have a great corporate identity, so why is it that Bob from Technical Support in Sheffield has a business card on 300g mat and is a different size to Sarah from the London sales office. Not only that, but the type faces are both wrong. Fortunately, they both have our logo. Unfortunately, they’re a different colour. Sounds familiar? I’ve seen this happen repeatedly in global operations, even within the same department.
Corporate Internet Marketing Strategy
In the process of searching for new and effective channels, the internet has proven
Invasion of the Blogs: Is a blog right for your business
Lemmings are cute, but dumb. If you tell them to jump off a cliff, they will. Just like the people who start blogs because everyone is doing it. Guess what happens after a little while? The blogs die.
Business Blog Web Design Mistakes
With more companies adopting blogs, we’re starting to see what works and what doesn’t work from a design perspective. As a cue from Jakob Nielsen’s article on the topic, here are thing problems I often find.