When I read this headline, I couldn’t imagine this being done – who has that kind of money lying around, but still: there are some insights here into how people communicate. How to Sell a $35,000 Watch in a Recession.
Category Archives: communication
Ten Tips on Conducting Professional Interviews
[ vocal branding ] Ten Tips on Conducting Professional Interviews
Improving Your Listening Skills | Man with no Blog
Gary Barber has some excellent advice on Improving Your Listening Skills
communicate better: improve your voice!
Over at Tim Noonan’s excellent “vocal branding” blog is this article on five desirable qualities of a vocally conscious voice. Also worth your time on this topic is this short article by Susan Berkley on sounding your best.
best practice for email design.
An excellent way to start designing HTML emails – 20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources for Beginners. Read them through, make some decisions, and start making a newsletter.
how to choose the right graph
If you’ve ever tried to insert a chart in Excel, you will have noticed all the options for charting data. This simple diagram shows when you should choose a particular type of graph.
how to tell if you’re being boring
Lately I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people for the first time, and this list of eight tips to know if you’re being boring rings true. Thanks to everyone who has put up with me being boring in the past – I’m trying to improve!
instead of a nametag
Looking for a way to help a group of strangers start up a conversation: how about wearing a badge that has the answer to a non-personal question on it: for example, What’s your favorite design related word?
some ideas about podcasting equipment
If you’re thinking about doing some podcasting, you might like to learn about audio quality and the process of recording. I had never given it a lot of thought until hearing the recent BoagWorld podcast 189 (scroll down near the end to find the notes on podcasting). After recording almost 200 podcasts, their equipment is …
is it too late to tweet at conferences?
Has tweeting at conferences had its day? If you’ve been following conference hashtags on twitter lately, you might have noticed that the tweetstream can end up being multiple people tweeting the same quotable quotes. The more twitter users at the conference, the more pronounced this is. The article above recommends writing short blog posts about …