Monthly Archives: March 2013

How can I make clients respect my time?

We all get frustrated when other people don’t respect our time. Unfortunately, many small business owners and freelancers, people who are already short on time, find themselves in situations where their clients aren’t respecting their time. How many meetings, discussions, … Read More

The Business Speak Blacklist

A great article from Bryan Garner over at Harvard Business Review on removing business jargon from your writing. As Bryan writes: It’s mission-critical to be plain-spoken, whether you’re trying to be best-of-breed at outside-the-box thinking or simply incentivizing colleagues to achieve … Read More

How to Write a Sales Proposal in 6 Easy Steps

Writing sales proposals used to cause me a lot of stress. Judging by the calls I get from customers, this task causes a lot of people a lot of stress. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I wrote … Read More