Whether it’s e-mail or plain old fashioned pen and paper, there is a bit of art in writing a good letter to someone. Generally speaking, a letter is more intimate and more informative than regular correspondence. For example, you might be writing to someone you haven’t seen or heard from in some time. Or you ...
Writing a memo at work can be frustrating. While the memos are not very long they often contain important information that people need to know. You want them to be concise and short and to the point. If the memo is about a topic that is going to be unpopular you want to be sure ...
Fortunate is the bride able to afford a wedding planner to help morph a thousand details into a day to remember. Wedding planners are doubly important these days. Women immersed in careers find themselves perpetually squeezed for time and frankly, moms of brides are so busy themselves, the caricature of a harried “MOB” racing through ...
Writing business letters is a forgotten art. The Internet has made us lazy writers. With a few keystrokes, we can kick off a short e-mail without thinking much about content, much less formatting. Have you ever reviewed your own e-mails and discovered misspellings, incomplete sentences, formatting mistakes, and grammatical errors? Usually we think nothing about ...
I do much of my business transactions through email and snail mail. Because of this, I like to make my correspondence look as presentable and intelligent as possible. When I can’t stand before my business contacts, I have confidence in my letters. From the moment they’re opened and read, to when they are filed away, ...
Admit it. You learned how to write a business letter in high school, and perhaps in college, but you have forgotten most of the particulars. Given the ever-changing rules for writing and formatting, this is probably for the best. It seems every few years the rules are changed anyway, so why should you try to ...
The ability to write a proper business letter is something that everyone businessperson should develop. In an age when text messages loaded with abbreviations have become a common means of communicating, the basics of putting together a concise and coherent business letter has escaped some. Fortunately, it doesn’t take long to get into the swing ...
if you are thinking of going into mail order, the first thing you should do is put your product in as many mail order catalogs as you can. You don’t have to just use the traditional mail order catalogs, there are online catalogs as well. An average mailing by a company run by a single ...
Businesses need other businesses to be successful. One business does not have the time or the money to do every aspect of the planning, developing, etc. that goes into completing projects. Businesses rely on other businesses to provide services such as distribution of products, providing expertise about a new area of a project that is ...
