Communication Articles

Business » Communication | By Sandra Montano @ Tuesday, 11th July 2006 @ 8:33 AM

As more businesses look for new and creative ways to reach new customers as well as cut costs of communicating within the organization, the subject of web conferencing often comes up. What is web conferencing, and what benefits can it generate for a company? To answer the question of "what is web conferencing?" one need only look to a resource that has become common to businesses of all sizes during the past ten years: the Internet. The basic answer to "what is web conferencin... more...

Business » Communication | By Liane Bate @ Monday, 3rd July 2006 @ 10:50 PM

Sometimes the only the thing that determines whether or not you make the sale is how well you communicate with your prospects and customers. Communication really is an art that needs to be practiced and refined. You may think you know exactly what to say, but it doesn’t take much to turn a person right off. I’ve never been a big talker, and I never want to say anything stupid, so I mostly just keep my mouth shut! Good thing for me that listening is an effective communication technique, but i... more...

Business » Communication | By Sandra Montano @ Friday, 30th June 2006 @ 1:37 AM

With the proliferation of web based conferencing options on the market today, it can be a daunting task to determine which web conference solution is right for you. By following a few basic tips, you can find come up with the best answer to your needs. One of the first places to look is at one of the free web conferencing solutions that are offered by the makers of various operating systems. While limited in their abilities, the price may be right if all you need is the ability to show a ... more...

Business » Communication | By Tony Jacowski @ Thursday, 29th June 2006 @ 7:55 AM

If you thought that reaching the job interview was the last step between you and your dream job, you need to think again. Interviews are about selecting the most suitable candidates. Even recruiters are of the same opinion, albeit in a different way than you may be thinking about. So, it is better get equipped to face a few strange questions in addition to the standard ones. But you should never underestimate the power of strange questions. Unless you are expecting them, strange questions... more...

Business » Communication | By Randy Siegel @ Thursday, 29th June 2006 @ 5:54 AM

When people ask me what I do, I am ready with a ten-second sound bite. In the length of time it takes for an elevator to travel one floor, I can summarize my work: “I help businesspeople become more powerful communicators through self-awareness, self-disclosure, self-acceptance, and skill development.” In the past, I have written a good bit about self-awareness and skill development, and some on self-acceptance, but I have yet to write on self-disclosure. For me, self-disclosure is the ... more...

Business » Communication | By Randy Siegel @ Wednesday, 28th June 2006 @ 8:03 AM

Think back to a blind date, interview or party when you first met someone new. Chances are that within four seconds you made a snap judgment on how much you liked and trusted the person. We do it to other people, and other people do it to us. It’s called the “four-second window,” and our challenge as communicators is to learn how to master first impressions in order to open the lines of communication. For a few, the “four-second window” is a breeze. These rare men and women ... more...

Business » Communication | By Sandra Montano @ Monday, 26th June 2006 @ 2:04 AM

Holding conference calls has become pretty routine in our world today. Still, there are people out there who do not know how to make a conference call. Here are some basic tips. If your need is simply to connect one or two other parties with yourself, you may consider utilizing the conference feature provided with your local phone service. Typically, the charges are rather high, but if you have a one-time need, this quick and easy solution will usually fill the bill. For instructions o... more...

Business » Communication | By Peter LeSar @ Sunday, 25th June 2006 @ 3:04 AM

As more American companies form business relationships with foreign companies, communication is more important than ever. But how do companies interact with each other to accomplish this task? Translation services used to be the one of the only ways to communicate with those who did not speak English or Spanish. But more and more these days, knowing a second language is becoming a job requirement rather than an extra skill. People who speak another language such as Spanish are needed mor... more...

Business » Communication | By Daegan Smith @ Sunday, 25th June 2006 @ 1:31 AM

There are good ways and there are bad ways to market a product or service. One of the marketing ways that always gets flak is the technique called cold calling. Also called blind calling, cold calling is a technique where a marketer calls up or contacts who is a random person who might want to buy the product or service that the marketer is selling. Cold calling is the same as blind guessing who your next customer will be. Simply put, cold calling is calling a prospective customer even if he o... more...

Business » Communication | By Sandra Montano @ Thursday, 22nd June 2006 @ 2:21 AM

During the last several years, a number of companies have begun to offer free conference call services. Their message is a pretty basic one; why pay for conferences when you don't have to? Assured that their customers will never see a bill from the conference provider, people have jumped on the bandwagon, only to find themselves disappointed and going back to their former providers. There are several reasons people find themselves disappointed with these services. The immediate and ... more...

Business » Communication | By Lee Dobbins @ Wednesday, 21st June 2006 @ 8:02 PM

Learning how to make a conference call is simple - if you know how to use the phone you should have no problem. Conferencing is a well known way to put together a meeting between people that are not in the same geographic area. Whether it be a meeting between co-workers that need to discuss a project or between you and a client to discuss a problem, if you know how to make a conference call, it can save both sides time and money. Teleconferencing can be don through an audio conference c... more...

Business » Communication | By ameen kamadia @ Tuesday, 20th June 2006 @ 3:36 PM

Sometimes, as small mortgage companies, we get scared by the larger lenders. They have so much more money than we do. They have more employees, great websites, 800 numbers, celebrity spokespeople, and huge advertising budgets. So they must also have great systems that are so much better than ours, right? Wrong. These large companies use the same words, the same procedures, the same applications we do. There is nothing magical or extraordinary about them. And as a test, I called a c... more...

Business » Communication | By Peter LeSar @ Tuesday, 20th June 2006 @ 3:32 PM

As per the U.S. State Department, U.S. companies tend to lose about $50Bn in potential sales just because of poor translation. Due to Incorrect and culturally inept language translation, most of these companies face further problems. Professional translation services will definitely help in building good image for the products/services these companies have to offer. Translation is amongst the simplest and most lucrative methods to enable any business to make a mark in the most impregnabl... more...

Business » Communication | By Peter LeSar @ Tuesday, 20th June 2006 @ 3:22 PM

With the latest language translation software, English to Arabic and Arabic to English translation is easy. As per statistics, website visitors were found to spend double the time with thrice the likelihood of making a purchase on a site where the information is in their ethnic language. The number of web users outside the United States is now in excess of 50% and a website that features no other language in addition to English, is basically alienating a huge chuck of the world’s... more...

Business » Communication | By Sandra Montano @ Tuesday, 20th June 2006 @ 3:16 PM

Over the last thirty years, conference calls have gone from a business tool that was the province of only the biggest companies to an everyday way of holding meetings for organizations of just about any size. As such, the competition these days for business is fierce among various conference call providers. This climate can work well for you when the time comes to consider just which of the many conference call providers will earn your patronage. The first thing to do in selecting a confe... more...

Business » Communication | By Peter LeSar @ Saturday, 10th June 2006 @ 6:15 PM

Language and communication issues may be the greatest impediment to breaking into the Chinese market. The ability to speak and understand Chinese is essential to business success. But in addition to having a capacity for English to Chinese translation and comprehension, the ability to be able to translate from Chinese to English is also invaluable. It can help improve advertising and marketing efforts and assist in business-to-business endeavors. The Chinese economy is red hot. It has bee... more...

Business » Communication | By Sandra Montano @ Wednesday, 7th June 2006 @ 6:44 AM

Many executives and workers alike secretly believe that all meetings are actually a waste of time. Interestingly enough, several independent surveys in business periodicals have confirmed that, in fact, meetings are the single largest time waster at large firms—or at least at firms that regularly conduct meetings. This is due in part to the use of conference calls. Since many business transactions are accomplished through various forms of conference calls it necessary for your business to... more...

Business » Communication | By Keith Londrie @ Thursday, 1st June 2006 @ 8:04 AM

Almost any MLM program you run into is a legitimate business opportunity. There are, though, as with any business, people out there scamming. If you are dealing with a legal and proper MLM program, they will sell products to the public minus extras or hidden costs. They will also allow you to simply buy, and not force people to become distributors. These proper programs will pay commissions to those who sell actual product, not just for recruiting. Just be aware of the program you are joining an... more...

Business » Communication | By Saleem Rana @ Sunday, 28th May 2006 @ 9:56 AM

This is a very unsexy topic, unlikely to raise your pulse, but I think these concepts, once understood will make a major difference to understanding exactly how you can upgrade your success in anything. While you may find this article somewhat abstract, you will also find many useful applications for it, once you grasp the universal applicability of these two concepts. The two concepts are processes and resources. A process is anything that has a starting point, a sequence o... more...

Business » Communication | By Terry Frerker @ Saturday, 27th May 2006 @ 12:57 PM

If there's something you've got to keep an eye on on the internet, it's the big guys. Their movements have ripples that reach to every corner. When Amazon thought of the idea of having other sites reselling their products, they changed internet direct marketing forever. Some caught the wave and surfed to the top, others are still wondering what went wrong. There are some ripples being made as we speak. eBay in planning to gobble up Shopping.com with classifieds becoming a ... more...