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Business Communication

Good business communication skills are essential to anyone who wants to run a successful business. These articles on business writing and public speaking focus on improving your communication skills. Writing a business plan, writing sales letters, and improving your public speaking skills are only some of the business communication topics covered.
Dress Your Business Communications for Success
Business communications are all about making a good impression on the people who can decide your fate. Dress up your business communications and look like you aspire to be more with these communication tools.
How to Write a Mission Statement
The mission statement articulates the company's purpose. It announces to the world at large why your company exists. Here's how to write a mission statement in three easy steps and some sample mission statements.
How to Write a Vision Statement
A vision statement is your ticket to success as the vision statement provides the inspiration for both your daily operations and your strategic decisions. Here's how to write a vision statement in three easy steps.
3 Keys to Business Phone Greeting Success
Telephone greetings are critical for businesses because prospects are deciding whether or not to do business with you. Yet many companies convolute the telephone greeting to the point that employees hate saying it and customers and prospects dread listening to it. When it comes to phone greetings, there is power in simplicity. Here are the three keys to business phone greeting success.
Speak for Success Online Course
Designed to help you shape up your oral communication skills, the seven speech lessons in this online public speaking course will make you sound more polished and professional – and ultimately, because of the power of good business communication, become more successful.
Business Plan Outline
Writing a business plan? Conveniently broken into eight sections, this outline of the business plan links to detailed articles that explain how to research and write each section of the plan.
Sample Business Invitation Letter
Feel free to customize this sample business invitation letter and use it to invite people to serve on your own small business advisory board.
Write a Sales Letter That Will Wow Them
Sales letters can be extremely powerful; marketing studies show that they outperform other direct mail formats such as brochures and postcards. Here's how to write a sales letter that will wow your readers and persuade them to buy your product or service.
10 Sales Letter Tips for Maximizing Your Sales Letter Response
Written a sales letter you think will knock their socks off? These sales letter tips will ensure you're maximizing the return on your sales letter campaign.
Writing the Marketing Plan
Your marketing plan is the blueprint for communicating the worth of your products or services to your customers. Use this step by step guide to develop a successful marketing plan, either as part of a business plan, or as a stand alone.
The Mathematics of Persuasive Communication
Phillip Yaffe reveals the secrets of good business writing - the kind of business writing that communicates clearly and directly to customers, staff and associates. The first secret is related to the differences between expository writing and creative writing.
Newsletters Are Smart Marketing
Reap the benefits of regular communication with your customers by producing a newsletter; what could be better business promotion? Janice Byer outlines the pros and cons of different newsletter formats and where to find newsletter content.
How to Write an RFP
The purpose of a Request for Proposal is to have several companies bid on the work, thus producing more competitive prices. However, if it is not done correctly, it can produce no bids or bids that are a waste of your time. About Management Guide F. John Reh presents the steps to writing a successful RFP.
The Winning Elements of Business Proposals
About Small Information Guide Darrell Zahorsky explains how to make your proposal stands out in a stack of competitor proposals by including the five elements of a winning proposal.

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