Posted on September 16, 2009 by Cindy Carpenter
Shortly after my post about how spelling errors can cause your buyers in another country to dismiss your company as “unprofessional,” comes this post at Harvard Business about sales emails that are “lost in translation.”
Nadia Nassif writes about two kinds of problems in sales emails: first, spelling and grammar errors; and second, using a generic [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2008 by Cindy Carpenter
The Boston Globe published an interesting article yesterday about brain research on the differences in perception between Westerners and Asians.* The article cites several examples of differences in perception from earlier experiments, and then talks about recent research with brain scans that show differences in the way we actually use our brains, even in very [...]
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