Archive for September, 2009

You Call This Networking? Marketing Yourself Can Be Tough

Networking. No matter how you twitter, tweet, link, face or space, you have to do it these days if you want to avoid career suicide. With all this online socializing, however, your knack for meeting strangers one-on-one (probably the best networking tool of all) gets rusty and pushed into the background of your skills. There’s […]

What Mistakes Are You Making That Could Cost You That Big Deal?

The business world in the 21st century is a very different place than it was fifty, thirty or even ten years ago. The advent of Internet, the innovations in software that have made meeting with a business associate half a world away without ever leaving your desk means that the language of business is more […]

Your 60 Second Speech

So here’s a situation for you. You’re shopping at the grocery store for company that’s visiting your house that night; you have a million things going through your head. Someone you haven’t seen in years says hello to you and asks how you are. The subject turns to what you’re doing for a living. What […]