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Executive Coach and Business Consultant, Alex Nottingham, Hits Amazon Best-Seller List With New Book, “Counter-Attack”

Alex Nottingham, business consultant and author, recently hit Amazon.com’s Best-Seller List with the new book, “Counter Attack,” climbing to #2 in the Direct Marketing category.

Orlando, Fla. February 3, 2011 – Business consultant, executive coach, attorney, and author, Alex Nottingham, recently joined a select group of America’s leading entrepreneurs and businesspeople to collaborate and co-write the business and marketing book titled, “Counter-Attack: Business Strategies for Explosive Growth in the New Economy.” The book also featured noted business development expert, best-selling author and speaker, Brian Tracy. Celebrity Press™, founded by JW Dicks, Esq. and Nick Nanton, Esq, is a business book publisher that publishes books from “thought leaders” around the world.

Often times, we want to save money by doing things ourselves.  We may put together our own website, take our own pictures, or even do some video work.  However, the risk is that you end up looking like an amateur.

We suggested to one of our clients, Tony Sona, to get a professional photographer.  He gladly accepted our advice.

Let's take a look at the before and after pictures:

Business email etiquette is essential in today's fast paced computer age. A great deal of communication, whether it be between an employee and a client, or employee-to-employee, is done via email. It is an effective way to have a conversation without having to take time out of the day to schedule a conference call, and it is also a means of having a documented conversation. This way, one can always refer back to the paper trail of what was said in the conversation.

It is also convenient for many business people who are always on-the-go because most cell phones have an email function. Now, people can simply go online with their phone to check their emails, and even post blogs and updates on their social networks.

Unfortunately, with the rapid growth of these social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, people are quickly becoming accustomed to writing the same way that they would write on these websites, in an email. Slang, abbreviated words, overuse of inappropriate punctuation, and symbols, are only a few of the common misuses that people are committing in a business email.

One must remember that even though email seems more casual than a formal meeting or conversation, it is still work related and should be viewed in the same way. It will always make one seem more professional to have a well tailored and grammatically correct email. The email should be no different for work, then if you were composing a formal business letter.

Here are some helpful tips and points of what to-do, and what not-to-do when one composes a business email: