How do you create a chart in PowerPoint that looks like this? It has: 2 different Y axes each with a different scale. 2  different chart types–column and line. learned this feature of PowerPoint charts recently from my friend and fellow PowerPoint MVP, Echo Swinford. Here’s what the data looks like in Excel. chose Column. Click OK. MORE >>

In this blog post , John Greathouse describes a phone call from someone seeking referrals to contacts in John's field. The caller basically does everything wrong, starting with forgetting a key factor in relationship-building: research. But I've covered that many times. People want to feel GOOD when they meet you and talk to you. They feel special. MORE >>

Most people find it difficult to name a living scientist , and even tougher to name a woman scientist, dead or alive. But if you've flipped through a magazine or watched a nature documentary in the past 50 years, you'll recognize this one: Jane Goodall. Goodall, who turned 78 earlier this month, travels 300 days a year. Expand your idea of a prop. MORE >>

Rethink Your Content Marketing by Aiming at Billions of Buyers on the Move. For those of us who been around computing since the early days of PCs, the consumer move to mobile devices and away from desktop and even laptop computers is astonishing–and maybe a little terrifying. Smartphones Soar. billion units by 2016. Tablets Triumph. MORE >>

A friend sent this funny video dispelling the myths of motivational speakers.    It has a good time poking fun at the occupational hazards of the job.    But let me take the idea here one step further.    There is no such thing as the job category, “Motivational Speaker.”    Why, you say?  MORE >>