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Why Networking Is Not Overrated

Success

According to a 2021 study by Women in the Workplace , about 86 women to every 100 men are promoted to the managerial level, and as such, fewer women are able to make it onto the leadership track. They are also less likely to say that a senior leader has helped them get a promotion. The rest can build from there.

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Why poor spelling and grammar hurt your career

On The Job

If you send an e-mail or write a report that has grammatical errors or isn't clearly written, bosses may believe that you're not a good representative of the company or say you're not ready for a promotion. The authors provide a number of good resources to ensure that you get it right, including The Associated Press Stylebook and The Yahoo!

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The Value of Professionally-Written Content to Online Marketing Campaigns

Andrea Kalli

With technology continually improving, Google, Yahoo, and other leading search engines have optimized their indexing and ranking efforts to the point where cheap content is quite unlikely to even make it into their indexes. Zappos is much the same. Successful marketers treat their content similarly.

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The Value of Professionally-Written Content to Online Marketing Campaigns

Andrea Kalli

With technology continually improving, Google, Yahoo, and other leading search engines have optimized their indexing and ranking efforts to the point where cheap content is quite unlikely to even make it into their indexes. Zappos is much the same. Successful marketers treat their content similarly.

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Own Your Niche: Three Reasons to Build Content For Your Own Websites

Andrea Kalli

These three reasons to build content for yourself may not convince you to switch everything to internal platforms, but they should serve as a reason to take more control, exert more influence over, and tightly protect your own content. Copyright law is complex, except when you keep your property.

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Local Business – Only 1.3% of Fans Actively Engage on Facebook

Small Business CEO

And how often are you reminded of specials and promotions from that business that make you act by purchasing or contacting them, or maybe even refer them to a friend? At the same time, how often do you see your favorite business’s info, posts, comments, likes, etc. when you log on to Facebook? So what does this mean for a local business?

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Taking the time to acknowledge someone and say thanks.

Laughing all the Way to Work

This could include sympathy cards, thank you cards, birthday cards, congratulations on a promotion, a card to reconnect with a client you havent heard from in awhile, or many other reasons. I dont often promote any businesses from my blog, but I thought this one was worth talking about. To send to clients of your company.