Just about every sales person, when I ask what they want their email to accomplish, says they want their email to make the sale.  Yeah… But email can be a wonderful sales tool as long as you follow some rules: Know what you want your email to achieve. Yeah… and I’d like Hagen Daz peanut butter ice cream to be a diet aide.  1.

A Seat Apart was developed by Allister Klingensmith literally over night at An Event Apart 2009 conference in Boston. This application is not in general release, but I’ve emailed Allister and he says if you want to use it for your presentation, contact him through his website: www.getsugarspun.com . Cliff Atkinson has written an excellent book “The Backchannel: How audiences are using Twitter and Social Media and changing presentations forever” which Presenting while people are tweeting is challenging – but also adds a new dimension to the presentation experience for your audience.

They won’t fall asleep Martin Weller: And, if by some freak chance what I’m saying isn’t interesting, then I’d rather people were doing their email or reading blogs than sitting in my session feeling resentful because they are trapped. Learn more about Twitter for business in our “Wednesdays at 1″ webinar series : Twitter for Business 101 February 25, 2009, 1PM EST Advanced Twitter for Business March 11, 2009, 1PM EST Twitter for Business resources: Twitter for Business reading list Follow @touchbase on Twitter for posts and our link blog Subscribe to the

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No apostrophe is needed in this case, but if you're going to use it, you might as well put it on the wrong side of the year.   The "dumb" apostrophe Most people know where an apostrophe goes, but they often unknowingly put in a "dumb apostrophe" (a vertical stroke rather than the proper mark designed for the typeface) when they type, for example, 2009 as ‘09. For example, if you copy and paste a quotation from a website or an email including the quotation marks, it's very likely that dumb quotes will appear in your text (if they appeared that way on the website) even

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Home Presentation eBook Blog About Best Posts Content PowerPoint Nervousness Delivery Audience Contact Browse > Home / Audience / 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool 8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool March 1, 2009 by Olivia Mitchell Welcome to this blog - my aim is to make a difference to the success of your presentations. If you found this post useful, subscribe to my RSS feed. Related posts: Is Twitter a good

2009 is going to be a grim year or so says the World Bank , fengshui masters and my mum. And over the past week, they have been commenting on how powerpoint presentations of 2009 should look like. (For For the first draft, click link: PowerPoint Design 2009: Does Design Matters? ) Markets are crashing, people are losing their jobs, stress is clearly in the air. In order to adapt to the new year, a lot has to change.

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So, as a leading authority on email etiquette and productivity ( Power Sales Writing - McGraw Hill; How to Say It To Sell It! - Prentice Hall), I think it’s time to apply a couple to your inbox: received an email from a client marked !!. Will she even check her email to see if I responded? Proverbs are cool. No matter how cheesy they are, how can you argue with stuff like: