If you are one of those people who have to go into work on midnight of Thanksgiving … my apologies, that is not good. It is bad enough the retailers have had Christmas items out for months and several stores are doing Black Friday a bit early. This however, did get me thinking about how…
I am not a fan of automated fields, especially if they are not used correctly or there is a system error. I have seen more Dear (Contact Name Here) on more newsletters sent to me than not. Even funnier (and this is usually a system mess up) is Dear (?). I don’t know about you,…
Here is a little secret: I was a huge office prankster and back in my corporate life. I did everything from coordinating an entire office to call in sick to bombarding a company with phony job applications. I did almost get fired for the calling in sick thing, but hey … it was pretty funny….
We get invited to a ton of event invites at M Communications and M Com Publishing. We also promote a lot of events. Here is the deal. When promoting an event, never ever ever invite an expert to a 101 course. I recently was invited to an event and when I looked at the invite…
If you have been following our blog for a bit, you know that we do quite a bit of networking for M Communications and M Com Publishing. Here is a couple of things you should not do: 1. Stand up and announce to an entire group that you have to go pee. Unfortunately, I am…
If you are a business owner or author, it is not too early to start planning for 2012 and I am not talking vacations. (P.S. – I am going to Belize.) Anyway, there are a couple of things we look at for the next year and hopefully this will help you plan as well. 1. Where…
