Business Etiquette Basics Article Series



Personal Branding: 7 Tips to Develop Your Persona

Here’s another great follow up to refining “Your Brand”. Your are not just defined by how good you are at you job, how well you dress, or how much you volunteer and neither is “Your Brand”. When you present yourself in a professional or social setting you are presenting the ‘whole’ you. To be

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Your Personal Branding Story

Developing you personal brand is the “new” way to sell you! It’s kind of like your “elevator pitch” – we all need one. You never know when an circumstance is going to present itself. And if you are ready with a a quick sentence or two carefully crafted about your unique skills and

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Can't Get A Raise? Negotiate Your Benefits

With company’s trying to tighten their ‘financial belt’ raises have been averaging 1-2%, some 0%. It’s very discouraging, but here are 7 great strategies on how to make up (or at least get a ‘little something’ more) for the merit increase you didn’t get. – Theresa

If you didn’t get a raise this year – and

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Professional Phone Etiquette

Phone Etiquette — does it really matter?

Alright so you’ve just been contacted for the phone interview and you’ve practiced your answers, you’ve researched the company, you’ve reviewed your resume you’re ready right?!  There’s one other item that could help you shine, when you can’t be seen — good, no great, phone etiquette skills.

With so much communication

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How to Build Your Brand

Being able to talk about your success is an important part of getting noticed in your career, company, and industry.

Telling others about your success can be a challenge, and in today’s job market it’s important to build your brand. Building a good name for yourself for making things happen and being able to talk about

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Proper email etiquette with corporate comedian Greg Schwem

Corporate comedian Greg Schwem http://www.comedywithbyte.com explains that it truly IS possible to end an email conversation

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