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 ...

  If you talk to me about the speaking arm of my career for more than five minutes, you’ll get an earful about my Powerpoint quandary.  What’s the most impactful way to deliver a speech?  Should I use slides or not?  If I don’t, should I use talking points?  How can I be entertaining while teaching, without giving in to ...

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 ...

On Vault.com this week, Judi Perkins offered some great advice on writing a thank you note after a job interview.  I love this topic because it’s discussed so infrequently, as if people fundamentally understand that a thank you note should in fact be written, and written in a very strategic way.  In reality, while you may consider it a ...

I’ve recently noted that the most popular posts on my blog are lists, where I give advice in the form or “5 tips for X” or “10 ways to do Y.”  So I’ve started thinking that lists are probably more effective for other types of communication too.  Here are a few reasons you should use them. Lists are easy to read.  People have a ...

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 ...

[ImageAttachment] Thanks to Dave Lorenzo at Career Intensity for posting about the twelve most persuasive words in the English language (according to Yale University).  They are: Easy Results Save Discover Guarantee Safety Health Love Money Need Proven You It’s interesting to see so many of the words I’ve ...