Building a Following is a Marathon, Not a Sprint, Says Corporate Exec-Turned-Novelist If you want people to read your book, you have to be more than a talented storyteller or researcher – you will need plenty of persistence, says Darlene Quinn, a 75-year-old award-winning novelist whose passion for the written word trumped her lucrative position […]
“Entrepreneurs complain they are barraged with timewasters. Find more time in each week by identifying and pledging to do two key activities each day to move forward your big quarterly objective. Inch by inch, reclaiming hour after hour, you can become a Time Master.” *Click on the infographic to view at full resolution.* Patty DeDominic […]
As Firm Marks 100th Year, Executive Recounts the Rewards of Working at a Company Known for Integrity By the time he was 30, Larry Katzen made partner at Arthur Andersen, then one of the “Big 8” accounting firms with a reputation for innovation and integrity. In the ensuing years, the firm continued to soar in […]
Social Media Strategist Shares Pros & Cons of 4 New Measures By: Marsha Friedman About two months ago, our lead social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations started noticing interesting changes involving the Twitter accounts we manage for clients. Tools were suddenly disabled. Twitter’s technical support, which hadn’t been good, improved. So, when news broke […]
In some countries, there’s no such thing as regular price or sale price. Everything is negotiated. Buyer and seller haggle back and forth until both agree. But here in the U.S., things are different. We don’t haggle. Instead, we shop for sales that aren’t really sales. And I believe this is so engrained in us, […]