It is now part of our daily lives, I know that for a fact I must dial at least 10 numbers a day on average, this being said people can dial up to 100 times a day and more. Although the mass market in phones are growing on a daily basis with companies such as Nokia, Samsung and Sony releasing a new generation of mobile handsets that have the capabil

Advances in technology and fast internet service have made video a medium available to just about anyone. Even if you don't have the equipment at your business, third parties such as a court reporting agency can provide the service. Advantages of Video-Conferencing Scheduling a meeting with people in the same building is hard enough, but tryi

If you are interested in succeeding in the area of business, it is essential that you are well educated in the area of effective communication skills. While many individuals seem to be born natural communicators, the rest of us must acquire this particular skill in order to be successful at it. Consistency is the key when it comes to business an

Generating business referrals is one of the golden keys to building a successful Chiropractic business. In this aspect, your Chiropractic practice is identical to every single other kind of business. So, to understand the importance of business referrals, take a moment to read this story about James. He's a realtor, but he could just as easily b

Generating business referrals is one of the golden keys to successful business. To understand the importance of business referrals, take a moment to read this story about James. James is a friend who is an extraordinarily successful realtor. Some years ago he found a house for us, did a good job or organising the whole deal and we went our se

Growing up, we've all had dreams of being a fighter pilot, astronaut, space explorer, ancient warrior, or any of a million different occupations throughout history. Unfortunately for most of us, we don't ever get to live out our childhood dream, instead settling for a simulated experience in a video game. Sometimes the simulations are so real th

We often confuse feedback with criticism - probably because much of our experience with it has had more to do with what we've done wrong than what we've done right or how we could do better. This is unfortunate. Feedback should not be viewed as a personal assault or a list of errors, mistakes, or mishaps. It should be seen as an essential part

Communication these days is all too often via the 2D method of email and text messages (also blogs and chat). While not ideal, they provide a quick and easy way to connect and keep in touch but be careful what you say and how you say it. You might think you know what you've said, but have you? The message you write isn't necessarily the messag

What four letter words do we mean? Here are a few: Talk Chat Tell Blab Let's look at 'talk' as an example. If I asked you, you could all talk about almost anything at a moment's notice. In the computer in our brain, we have lots of programs--what we think, what we feel or believe about anything, even things we know absolutely nothing abo

So the top executives want to find out what their workers can do by doing a little experiment that should be "fun" for everyone. You'll probably get a bunch of rolling eyes. However the feedback can be quite valuable to find out the strengths and abilities of people to see how effective they are together. This is usually done through an exercise th

There are good ways and there are bad ways to market a product or service. One of the marketing ways that always gets flak is the technique called cold calling. Also called blind calling, cold calling is a technique where a marketer calls up or contacts who is a random person who might want to buy the product or service that the marketer is sellin

The only way to get better at something is to do it. Taking a speech or business communication class will force you to make presentations to audiences of people you don't know. Speaking to groups of people that you don't know can be an extremely hard thing to do. For some it comes naturally but for most of us it's about as pleasant as getting a

The volume of calls received by a business every day has increase an enormous amount. For business today to keep up with the large number of calls, businesses need to invest in good automatic phone software. Software, which will eliminate some of the time consuming duties of their employees, such as listening the phone ring or a disconnect notice

We are in the business of relationship building. How can you develop a relationship with anyone if you don't send, speak, write or communicate with them frequently? The easiest way to start to do that is to collect e-mails addresses, physical mailing addresses and or phone numbers. Today everyone is afraid of spam, and to be blasted by offers in

Recently I helped a small business owner totally re-write his marketing and business plans. The owner was grateful for the new copy, but expressed a concern that he may have issues writing copy for marketing materials or responding to bid proposals later in the year. He said,"It is so hard to start from scratch writing a marketing document when