Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

The funniest was the gym clothes. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? Can versus Could Capitalization of hyphenated words Capitalization of names Commas in a series Company name Complement vs compliment Confusing words: lunch/luncheon; company/accompany Contractions Currently vs presently Data: singular or plural?

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Time Zones IAAP Holidays 2009 100

Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Later they learned that in Africa illiteracy is high, so companies put pictures on the product labels to show what’s inside. They are, unfortunately, classic examples of what happens when a company seeks to communicate internationally on the cheap. Good copy will reveal that the emperor is has no clothes. Exactly.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

If you want to make a career of writing, should you look for a full-time job in a company or strike out on your own as a freelancer? I know plenty of people who prefer having a writing job working for one company. If you work at the right company, that is. Dress in comfortable clothes (I recommend Hawaiian shirts).

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 11, 2011

Before I started my company, I headed up production & marketing for a small entertainment company and was responsible for creating many of the processes & procedures required for my department to meet its many deadlines. Decide on your guidelines and stick to them so you have part of your procedures for life balance.

Policies 100

Policies Google Docs Phones Learning 100

Men With Pens

MARCH 21, 2010

If you write web copy that speaks of being good in sales but sounds like it comes from a casual, laid-back stay-at-home mom, your client won’t be pleased if she’s actually a businesswoman who wears upscale clothes to impress clients at high-profile meetings every day at her downtown office.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Looking at the impressive list of people who have commented here, imagine putting them all together as a company: I bet they would wipe the floor with a company made of of people who only had job specific skills, and no cross-disciplinary experience and perspective! John Meadows´s last blog. 54 cents.)

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 19, 2010

“I’m on the Brute Squad.&# “You ARE the Brute Squad.&# – It’s often better to look like you are a small company, than look like you are one guy scrambling to cover everything. Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change. It’s always possible to overdo anything.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 15, 2009

My mother was always the main breadwinner in our family, and her male peers (and all of her peers were male, because female company owners are still rare even in liberal places like the Bay Area) respected her immensely. She didn’t have her own company yet, and she had been handing out resumes not that long ago herself. Not nearly.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I mean, look at how many bricks and mortar companies are “off-shoring&# workers to save a buck and pass the savings on to customers or shareholders. The rising stars in my company take the minimum allowable vacation, come in to work sick (and infect all of us!), Where I work, the “superstars&# have to give up a lot.

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