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How to Talk to Your Boss About Race: A New Book Explores Language Used in the Workplace and How We Can Improve

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I know it is often the first aspect of my identity that people refer to when they describe me. Pierce, MD and popularized by Dr. Derald Wing Sue, the term “microaggressions” refers to the small, everyday slights, intentional or unintentional, that remind those from marginalized groups that they are different. Microaggressions.

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Spring Cleaning

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Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Spring Cleaning Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 1:07 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Cleanup Knitter , Life of the Virtual Assistant After referring to self as “Cleanup Knitter&# in my last post, it felt as though I should work a little harder to earn that title. Loose Ends.

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16 Business Owners Share What They Would Do Differently

Stephanie LH Calahan

In this context, I found it difficult to set and implement a cancellation policy. By their mere existence, boundaries such as a cancellation policy set the foundation for mutual respect between the client and consultant. I placed the cancellation policy in my contract right above my guarantee. This is a cardinal mistake!

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Webiste Critique Special Report: Kidorable

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Speaking of covering everything head to toe… today is a special report website critique for Kidorable, an acclaimed kids’ clothing and accessories company dressing little kids up right. People know to look for items like “our return policy&# there, and you’ll keep more attention on your actual products and sales.

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What's Under the Hood of Your Web Copy? | Men With Pens

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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. Rahman Mehraby´s last blog.

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Why Good Copywriting Goes Bad: Ignorance | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Could I have chosen a more arcane reference?) Foreign language copywriters or professional translators skilled at intercultural communications adapt your key messages to targets whose cultural values and references can differ significantly. Good copy will reveal that the emperor is has no clothes. Take notes. Edmund Burke?

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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

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Possibly behind that couch in the corner, the one buried under boxes and old clothes. Reply Catherine Caine ( @CatherineCaine ) January 13, 2010 at 6:20 pm The only addition I’d make to this is that Stephen King always refers to the place he writes as a mental basement instead of an attic. You’re not sure, though.

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