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• Book Review: The Contrarian Effect

  Behind the very successful author teleseminars series is a new friend of mine, Elizabeth Marshall . Together with the brilliant Michael Port, who wrote Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients than You Read More... Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Handy Resources, People Skills

• Avoid Clichés Like the Plague

  One of my colleagues at Edelman, Dan Santow, has a great blog of writing tips , and I thought this week’s post on clichés was worth sharing with all of you. Says Dan: A cliché is a metaphor or phrase characterized by its overuse. For the most part, using Read More... Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Handy Resources

• Four Tips for Linking Up With LinkedIn

  I get a lot of e-mails asking me how people should use LinkedIn for business networking. And the truth is, I’m not entirely sure myself, which is why I’m looking forward to my friend Jason Alba’s book on the topic. This week, though, I came across a great Read More... Posted Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Job Hunting, Networking, Technology

• A Lesson in Visibility

  A few weeks ago, I read a post on how to generate a following for your blog. I would love to give credit to the author, but I can’t remember where I saw it. In any case, one of the post’s recommendations was to include the blog’s URL in your e-mail signature. Read More... Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Ownership & Initiative, Work

• Tale of the Two-Faced Interviewee

  I still remember the day six months ago when a good friend of mine called me up to tell me about this new junior-level employee she wanted to hire. I had never heard my friend, the director of the tourism division at a global advertising agency, sound Read More... Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Best Practices, Communication, Emotional Intelligence, Business, Office Politics, Professionalism, Work

• Brevity is the Soul of Everything

  In my excitement to get this blog up and running, last week's posts were a tad on the verbose side - which brings up an important point. Most people in Corporate America have a very short attention span and are way too busy for their own good. When writing Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Productivity, Professionalism Attachment(s): http://www.ghostwords.com/hassled.gif

• Workday Interrupted

  It doesn’t add up. The workday has been roughly the same length of time – eight hours – since the early part of this century. Today, though, we have access to a variety of technological advances designed to increase our productivity, from fancy schmancy Read More... Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 10:50 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Productivity, Professionalism, Daily Life Attachment(s): http://www.seattlecentral.org/faclab/programicons/multitask.jpg