Career Advice: Eyeball Etiquette

Written by Richard Lowe


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Avoidance of eye contact implies fear and subservience. Combine that with a weak handshake and a disheveled demeanor and you have someone that you should not trust. In fact, you have a person whom you should not allow anywhere near you.

Some good rules to follow for "eyeball etiquette" are listed below. Be able to look people inrepparttar eye or face as they are speaking, but don't get into a staring contest. Occasionally looking around at other people, say in a meeting, helps maintain a good sense of balance inrepparttar 106758 conversation.

Keep your face friendly as you speak. If you have a hostile appearance and you are looking people inrepparttar 106759 eye, then you are implicitly challenging them. Unless you arerepparttar 106760 leader of a gang, this is probably something that you want to avoid.

Men, it's bad manners to glance at a lady's chest (or other sexual body parts) as you converse. Don't think women notice? They do, and it lowers their opinion of you. Treat any women in your office as you would like to be treated - with respect.

In meetings, keep your attention onrepparttar 106761 speaker. You are inrepparttar 106762 meeting to gain and give information or direction. Keeping your eyes onrepparttar 106763 person who is speaking implies that you are paying attention. It's also a good idea to occasionally look down at your pad of paper (you should always bring pen and paper to meetings) and write a few notes. This screams out, "you just said something important so I am writing it down". It's also an opportunity to avoidrepparttar 106764 implicit challenge that could arise from a constant, fixed stare.

In meetings, you should also occasionally look around. There are other people in a meeting (usually), and if so you should be sure to look at them once in a while to get their reactions, and to also invite comment and discussion. Atrepparttar 106765 very least, it's a way to shake yourself awake ifrepparttar 106766 speaker is boring or monotonous.

When your boss is speaking, keep focused on him or her. Your boss is telling you something, man, look at him! This person has authority over you and presumably has power over your raises, reviews and progress uprepparttar 106767 corporate ladder. Listen to him, and show you are listening by looking at him.

There is nothing interesting onrepparttar 106768 floor. Have you ever noticed that as most people walk they are looking atrepparttar 106769 ground? What inrepparttar 106770 heck is so interesting aboutrepparttar 106771 floor or pavement that it commands all of their attention? Sometimes I just have to glance down and see if perhaps some artist came by and painting something wonderful onrepparttar 106772 floor while I was out! People, there is an entire world out there - look around and see what's there.



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Publicity Campaigns: How Many Hours.How Many Months?

Written by Todd Brabender


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HOW MANY HOURS: A large number of hours will be spent planning and shaping your publicity campaign forrepparttar media market. The preparation ofrepparttar 106757 media market research andrepparttar 106758 polishing ofrepparttar 106759 media release may seem painstaking, but when done right, they are well worthrepparttar 106760 effort. Afterrepparttar 106761 initial launch ofrepparttar 106762 campaign, be prepared to spend at least an hour or two each day maintaining it: conducting numerous media follow-ups and making new media pitches, (emails, faxes, mailings and phone calls); fulfilling media requests (forwarding product photos, media kits/product samples, arranging interviews) and tracking/clipping articles and features.

Here's a brief rundown onrepparttar 106763 number of hours that may be involved in a typical campaign: (These hours are averaged estimates. Many PR specialists might be able to getrepparttar 106764 work done more efficiently for you.)

CAMPAIGN LAUNCH Media Release Writing/Editing: 5 hours Media Market Research: 15 hours Media Distribution: 10 hours ------------------------------------------------------------------ TOTAL LAUNCH HOURS: 30 hours

CAMPAIGN MAINTENANCE: 30+ hours /month (3-Month Campaign) (90 hours) ------------------------------------------------------------------- TOTAL CAMPAIGN HOURS -120+ work hours

If you haverepparttar 106765 time, staff and expertise to launch your own campaign, then take advantage ofrepparttar 106766 media and get your message to them. But if your expertise lies in another area, and you or your staff lack publicity generating skills (or have little or no experience in dealing withrepparttar 106767 media) it might be best to hand it off to someone who can make sure its done right -repparttar 106768 first time. Ask yourself these questions when deciding whether you can handle your own publicity campaign:

· Do I haverepparttar 106769 expertise and time to get it done effectively without hampering my current workload or that of my staff? · Do I haverepparttar 106770 writing capabilities to put together a media release or feature pitch to which editors, reporters and producers will respond? · Do I haverepparttar 106771 resources to conductrepparttar 106772 media research and distribute my release to those media outlets?

If you answered "yes" to all, not just some of these questions, then perhaps you can benefit from launching your own publicity campaign. Best of luck!



Todd Brabender is the President of Spread The News Public Relations, Inc.. His business specializes in generating publicity & media exposure for innovative products/businesses/websites. http://www.spreadthenewspr.com (785) 842-8909 todd@spreadthenewspr.com


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