Customer Appreciation Gifts
6 Gift Ideas That Are Client Appropriate Showing customer appreciation can increase client loyalty and lifetime value. But how much appreciation is too much? In order to make your clients and...
View ArticleWhy You Should Volunteer
The Surprising Benefits of Volunteering on Your Mind, Health and Soul Last year around Thanksgiving, I had the opportunity to volunteer at the local Boys and Girls Club in my city. We served a feast...
View ArticleClimbing the Corporate Ladder
Dress and Speak Like You Are Already at the Top You have likely heard the old sayings, “Dress for the job you want” and “Fake it ‘til you make it.” There is a reason that these are still...
View ArticleTips for International Travel
30 Tips to Help Optimize Your Next Business Trip Abroad Whether you’re traveling internationally for business or leisure, here are 30 practical tips that will help your next trip to be more...
View ArticleEmail SPAM Protection
How to Protect Your Email Accounts from Spam Advertisements Whether in the office or at home, we all have email boxes flooded with junk email. Ironically, junk email basically has become an accepted...
View ArticleTipping the Scales in Sales
10 Tips for Retailers and Marketers to Leverage New Technologies to Drive Revenue Many of today’s retail and marketing executives feel like the proverbial dinosaur when it comes to their industry....
View ArticleResilience by Subtraction
Strategies to Deal with a Job You Don’t Love At some point in your career you may encounter a situation in which you aren’t as happy, fulfilled, and satisfied as you’d like to be in your work. It’s a...
View ArticleReturning to Work After a Baby
Four Mother-Tested Ways to Overcome the Mental Hurdles of Re-entering the Working World You gave your supervisor the exact date you would return to work. You told yourself (and your new baby) the...
View ArticleContent Marketing 101
Getting to the Content of Content Marketing We have heard that content is king and that content will never die and that content is at the core of digital marketing. But what, exactly, is content? Is...
View ArticleNetworking Matters
10 (Relatively) Painless Ways to Make Connections to Advance Your Career Are you too much of an introvert to actually get out and network? Or are you too busy, too overburdened, too something to make...
View ArticleAppreciating Our Differences
Being the “Only” Does Not Mean You Have to Be Lonely Everyone has read the story of “The Ugly Duckling.” The moral of this age-old tale is that, while there are different kinds of birds, one kind is...
View ArticleResilience by Subtraction
Strategies to Deal with a Job You Don’t Love At some point in your career you may encounter a situation in which you aren’t as happy, fulfilled, and satisfied as you’d like to be in your work. It’s a...
View ArticleReturning to Work After a Baby
Four Mother-Tested Ways to Overcome the Mental Hurdles of Re-entering the Working World You gave your supervisor the exact date you would return to work. You told yourself (and your new baby) the...
View ArticleContent Marketing 101
Getting to the Content of Content Marketing We have heard that content is king and that content will never die and that content is at the core of digital marketing. But what, exactly, is content? Is...
View ArticleBusiness Travel Hacks
15 Tips to Help You Travel Smarter, Not Harder on Your Next Work Trip Air travel these days can be a stressful affair. Fitting a week’s worth of outfits (and shoes) into a carry-on, fighting traffic,...
View ArticleTransitioning Work Partners
The Do’s & Don’ts for Dealing with a Leave of Absence at Work When You Are the One Who Is Left Nearly a year ago now, my work partner left me, not because he wanted to leave, but on a military...
View ArticleAvoid Wedding Budget Blues
How to Plan the Wedding of Your Dreams Without Breaking the Bank The story is familiar to us all: Once upon a time, there were two people who fell madly and deeply in love. They decided to spend...
View ArticleIt Takes a Village
Creating a Community of Friends and Family Can Help You Raise Your Children and More My sister recently wrote a blog post about mothers who struggle in the absence of the “village.” And, although I...
View ArticleFinding Your Inspiration
How Appreciating the Small Things Can Have Big Rewards Marlo Thomas wrote a book, The Right Words at the Right Time, a few years ago about regular people who found profound moments of inspiration...
View ArticleContinuing Education at Work
Going Back to School Without Going Back to School With September comes the melancholy feeling of losing summer while entering the busy season of family schedules, holidays, and looming long winters...
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