Archive for September 7th, 2004
Chis Malta: It’s very simple, folks. Treat every business Email you send as if your entire business depended on it. Pretend that each person you send a Business Email to could be your next Big Break in Business. Always start your Email with a ‘Salutation’ (“Hi”, “Hello”, “Dear Mr. Smith”). Always use common courtesy when [...]
A reader wrote: When you’re traveling on business away from home, there can be problems: finding a place to stay, transporation around the city, making sure you have a clean and pressed set of good clothes…. Yet another problem is – lack of an office! Fortunately, now that problem has been solved. A British company [...]
Mark Frauenfelder: “This web page returns the ten most reputable eBay members and the ten least reputable ones. When I checked the page, it listed mario23g (with a feedback rating of -26) as the least reputable person on all of eBay, but I checked his page and it looks like he is no longer registered. [...]
A Labor Day Salute To Small Business Owners
Jim Blasingame: Today, unions represent less than 14% of all U.S. workers, a 60-year low. Small businesses, on the other hand, number in the tens of millions, and our numbers are increasing by almost 1 million per year. We currently represent over 98% of all U.S. businesses; create over 55% of all new innovations; employ [...]
Customers Won’t Buy Won’t They Can’t Understand
Startup Journal: “The ability to speak and write concisely and with clarity is fast becoming a competitive advantage for entrepreneurs and small-business owners (and for big companies, too). Articulating clearly what your business is, what kind of goods or services you sell and how much they cost helps the bottom line. Potential customers or clients [...]
Merlin Mann: Getting Things Done Advanced Workflow [PDF] Getting Things Done fans, definitely don’t miss this. A PDF illustrating a cool, annotated version of the basic GTD workflow.
Jim and James, the founders of HOT or NOT, are throwing a $200,000 sweepstakes to encourage people to register to vote. You can enter the contest even if you’re registered to vote.
