How to Contact Someone By JoJo Tabares This issue came up the other day and I thought it would make a good post. I have written on this before, but it wasn’t the focus of the article and I can’t seem to find it amongst the many I’ve written (that have yet to be posted on the AOE website) anyway. Lol If you have ever had a situation come up in which you wanted to contact someone to address an issue, find out more information or thank them for all their hard work on something, you may have run into trouble obtaining an email address. It is surprisingly easy in the Information Age and here are a few suggestions: 1....
If' you're a Christian working a small business, you need to join me this morning! You may not realize it, but almost every aspect of your business involves communication skills. The more effective you are, the more success you'll have in your business. Jill Hart of CWAHM and a sampling of Christian Work at Home Moms join me this morning (9am PST/12pm EST) to share tips and techniques for better communication with your customers, co workers, suppliers, employees and more. We'll discuss tips for customer service, sales, marketing, your blog, website, dealing with co workers, social networking like Yahoo groups, Facebook and Twitter. Join us via your computer: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19736 Or call in to the show: Phone Number: (724) 444-7444 Call...
All this month I've been sharing from my article, "12 Deadly Communication Sins of Advertising" and today's installment is about whining. As mom would say... Have Some Whine with That Cheese. Be careful to look over your marketing message for anything that might seem unprofessional for your industry before it is sent out. Have you ever looked at some of those infomercials and cable TV commercials? Some of them make my daughter cringe. You may be a small business with a small budget, but you don't want to give the impression that you are a cheesy, cheap company. Aside from the issues I mentioned in previous posts like poor spelling or feigning ignorance, one of the ways small business owners...
I had an experience on Facebook last week that got me thinking about how important it is to be careful that our communication doesn't resemble something that people could take the wrong way. It isn't enough to be genuine, we have to communicate that we are. If you use the language of scammers and spammers, people will wonder if you are. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, people will naturally conclude that it's a duck. Here's what I mean and what we can all learn from Pst Spence. Last week, I received a friend request from someone with an odd sounding name: Pst Spence. We had several mutual friends, his page looked normal and he...
