Entries from October 2008 ↓

We answered the question of mailing addresses in Wendy’s post what’s in an address? but most of us communicate by e-mail so we often get asked a more urgent question:
How should I format my e-mail signature? What information should I include?
In August 2007 Mitch Wagner wrote a great article What Does Your E-Mail Signature Say [...]

I was in Seattle last week where, in my hotel bar, I met a bunch of folks who were attending a Business Intelligence (”BI”) conference. Road warriors are used to striking up conversations with strangers and, given the week, I thought most of my discourse would be about politics (the presidential debate was on) or [...]

I was happy to see a recent offer from Skype in my inbox with the promise of 30 minutes of free calls to land line and cell phones around the world. As a start-up, we need to keep our operating expenses low and Skype allows our team to stay connected from anywhere in the world. [...]

I recently read an article, Accounts not receivable, that provided the following factoid:
A recent survey of large public companies in America … shows that “days sales outstanding” (DSO) - or the number of days it takes companies to collect money owed to them, often by other firms - hit an average of 41 in 2007, [...]