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 Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling, comes a little book with big sales ...

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 clichés is lazy, an easy out, a ready-made excuse not to take the time needed to think ...

I am always instructing people to be fastidious about written communications at work – including casual e-mails.  This means choosing your words carefully and proofreading any and all documents before you send them out into the world.  In this era of virtual teams and constant e-communication, how you come across in writing is a critical ...

I see it happen all the time.  Smart, ambitious and personable twenty-somethings put together powerful resumes, and get invited on half a dozen interviews.  But then, at the in-person meetings themselves, something goes wrong.  Either they’re unprepared for the format of the interview, or the questions they are asked, or they ...