Don’t get sucked into a money-making scam! (Or, rather, a money-losing scam!) The Better Business Bureau released a list of its top 10 reported scams over 2010, and among them were work-from-home scams and “free” trial offers that weren’t so free after all. A BBB representative attributes the high number of scams and rip-offs...
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Today I ran across an article on businessknowhow.com that I thought I’d share; it’s entitled “10 tips for successful networking”. Even though these types of tips may seem self-evident, it can help to remember some of the strategies presented here, and even more so, it can help to stop and ask yourself, “Yes, I know...
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If you feel that you’ve been fighting an uphill battle in your workplace to prove that social media is something worth investing time and effort into, then Hubspot has some tips to arm you a bit better for that struggle. Social Media is difficult to wrap a business case around. Return on investment is...
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Fargo, it’s time to get your knowledge on. Corey Perlman, author of the best-selling book “eBoot Camp: Proven Internet Marketing Techniques to Grow Your Business,” will be in town on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, to help show you how to grow your business via the web. A whole new set of tools awaits today’s...
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It’s always nice when a person can identify an issue and then actually do something about it. Chuck Chadwick is one such person. He felt that businesses in Moorhead had “lost their voice in the community,” according to Inforum, so he took matters into his own hands and created the Moorhead Business Association, a...
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It’s about that time of year again. The time for families, for reconnecting and for gift-giving. Oh yeah, and eating. Thanksgiving and Christmas can give a whole new meaning to “food coma.” There’s turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy and all of those delicious items that make the holidays memorable. Eating in...
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If you’ve been out of the resume writing game for awhile (or even if you haven’t), putting together a polished, informational resume can be a daunting task. Do I include my college gigs? Is it a death sentence if it’s longer than 2 pages? What if I have gaps in my employment? Monster.com has...
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Did you know you can have the power of Dale Carnegie at your fingertips 24/7? With the Dale Carnegie “Secrets of Success” application, you can always be equipped to engage successfully with clients, prospects, peers and management. If you need to motivate your team, click on “Be a Leader” and see how the pros...
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StumbleUpon is an incredibly useful, but oft-misunderstood tool that helps people find interesting content on the web, as well as share the things they like with other users. I personally had always had trouble wrapping my head around the way StumbleUpon works, until I realized one important factor: In order to get real use...
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A recent article in Fast Company called “Nine Ways to Stop Worrying and Create a Worry Free Workplace” really made me stop and think. I wouldn’t call myself a worrywart, by any means. Sometimes I over-analyze whether or not I remembered to lock my front door when I left for work, or if I...
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Coach Carolyn Happiness and success are up to you.
