Entrepreneurs
17 Apps Every Entrepreneur Needs in 2017
Long before you can afford a staff to help you do more you can afford apps that help freak out less.
By Deep Patel
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Business News
We’re Trusting Each Other Both More and Less Every Day
We need more transparency, decency and honesty.
By Joe Burton
Human Resources
13 Body Language Blunders That Can Make You Look Bad
Our bodies have a language of their own, and their words aren't always kind.
Building a Business
Employees Are Your Company’s Voice
A employee social media takeover is way cooler than a press release.
Building a Business
10 Misused Words That Make Smart People Look Stupid
These misused words have a tendency to make even really smart people stumble. Learn them before they tempt you into looking bad.
Business News
Facebook Takes on Slack With Launch of Business Software
Workplace is a subscription product -- a departure for advertising-driven Facebook -- with businesses paying $1 to $3 per user. Slack's least expensive business plan charges about $7 per user.
By Reuters
Human Resources
7 Strategies to Stay in Touch
Constant connection with friends, family and business associates is not the big chore we make it out to be.
By Ivan Misner
Thought Leaders
6 Rules For Effective Feedback
It is not whether it's positive or negative that determines its quality, it's how it's delivered. Wanna help? Do it this way.
By Phil La Duke
Building a Business
3 Moments Where President Obama Earned the Title of Great Communicator
Pay attention, entrepreneurs: These are great learning opportunities.
By Ahmad Raza
Building a Business
4 Tips for Handling a Delta-Sized Customer Experience Debacle
Learn from Delta's crisis communications strategy.
Online Presence
Your Hashtag and Your Brand Go Hand in Hand
Social media campaigns fail all the time. The culprit? Hashtags are too often just an afterthought.
Building a Business
Millennials Are Just Like You Were 20 Years Ago
Companies are far better off adapting to the reasonable expectations younger workers have about technology and communication practices.
Entrepreneurs
A Eulogy for Meetings
Mourn not the passing of your business's biggest time waster and productivity serial killer. Instead, calculate a dollar cost before ever scheduling another meeting, using this simple process.
By Phil La Duke
Building a Business
Your Team Can’t See the Big Picture if Your Don’t Show Them
Every job comes with a pay check, so if you aren't giving your employees a sense of purpose, why is working for you better?
Building a Business
An Introvert’s Guide to Communicating With Results
The conventional wisdom that you need to be an extrovert to succeed is contradicted by recent research.
Thought Leaders
7 Ways Body Language Speaks Louder Than Words
Even when people hear your words they are watching what you say.
Thought Leaders
Strategically Discussing Strategy
Be truly strategic and limit your use of the word to the cases where it means something.
By Alex Slater
Building a Business
Bad Email Grammar Ain’t Good for Getting You a Job or a Date
Whether it is the cover letter for your resume or your profile on a dating site, people are judging how you wrote it before they consider what you said.
Entrepreneurs
The 7 Things You Need to Know to Text With Good Etiquette
The venerable phone call has been supplanted by text messaging, which has introduced many new ways to be rude without meaning to.
Building a Business
Use These 10 Words in Conversation to Get What You Want
'Because.' 'Thanks.' 'We': These are the words that will open your listener to you and give you power.
Building a Business
Axl Rose Is Fat. His Personal Branding Should Embrace That.
There is a danger in trying to wipe out who we are online. Axl Rose is putting his authenticity at risk.
Thought Leaders
Instill a Strong, Positive Company Culture — From Go!
Realize that your vibe as founder sets a tone, and that every action, inaction and interaction builds that out until it becomes your corporate culture.
Thought Leaders
18 Ways You Talk Like a Sailor and Don’t Even Know It
Before you call someone a "loose cannon" check that you know what that means.
Building a Business
5 Ways to Communicate as Efficiently as a Computer
Learning to speak like a machine in an efficient, direct and concise manner will give you a leg up in business.
Thought Leaders
A Reminder to Business Leaders That Your Mic Is Always On
Now more than ever, people judge you by the words you use. And the knives are out quick when you slip up.
Marketing
Nextiva Used a Little Ingenuity — and Dennis Rodman — for a Marketing Slam Dunk
Here's how the cloud-based business communications company routinely out-markets major competitors for a fraction of the budget.
By Carol Roth
Building a Business
3 Strategies for Navigating Messy Office Politics
Politics is simply the process, done well or poorly, of divvying up whatever there is too little of for everybody to have all they want.
By Jeff Boss