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This article identifies three very common organizational communication issues that can lead to a low-morale, low-trust work environment.

There are three specific examples of how the issue was originally brought to the attention of the organization's leaders, what the original intent of the communication was and then how the underlying, real issue was brought to the surface so it could be fixed.

The 3 examples are from a real client case study and were all identified in one three-hour employee meeting to begin transforming the agency to develop a "Championship Culture Read More

Marketing podcast with Liz Strauss (Click to play or right click and “Save As” to download – Subscribe now via iTunes

Liz StraussMy guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is Liz Strauss, CEO and founder of SOBCon and author of the popular Successful-Blog.com. We talk about social media, of course, the upcoming SOBCon Conference in Chicago (April 30), and the blending of online and offline worlds – my current favorite topic Read More

This post is about selling, customer service, managing, and relationships. and virtually all relationships.

I regularly visit two dry cleaners.

Dry cleaner #1: The front desk person always has a smile on her face, calls me by name, acts excited to see me, and we chat it up for a couple minutes every time I'm there.

Dry cleaner #2: The front desk person doesn't Read More

Effective communication is a key for organizational leaders to be able to positively influence their team members so the organization can achieve desired results.

Yet there are seven common mistakes leaders make that subconsciously sabotage their effectiveness and kill employee morale, motivation and productivity creating a negative and sometimes, even a toxic work environment.

This article provides an overview of the seven most common communication habits in which many leaders engage, along with the source and impact of each Read More

Why you need to adapt your social media communication to reach your international audiences, and a few insights into cultural differences on the main social media platforms Read More

Many Canadian businesses are faced with a conundrum: do they set up their website on a .ca domain or on a .com domain. There are pros and cons for each, and some of those are related to SEO, to the rankings that the website can achieve in the search engines Read More

Experian Hitwise recently announced that “Facebook” was the top organic search term in the U.S. during the four weeks ending March 27, 2010 amongst the three major search engines. This means that Facebook related terms accounted the top spot for Google, Yahoo and Bing. Read More

Brace yourself: Facebook is trying to take over the world. Or, if not the world, at least the entire Internet. Read More

Harley-Davidson, Nike, Playboy, Coca-Cola, VW, and Apple logos have been permanently etched into the skins of customers worldwide. Why do they do it? Read More

There is the old saying that when going gets tough, the tough get going, well that applies in sales too. Anyone can take an order, it takes guts, strategy and the ability to execute to overcome chal Read More