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Email Like a Professional

By Jordana Beh

March 6, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Email Like a Professional

Over the course of the year, along with learning how to market books, I’ve picked up a few tips about how to market yourself. After all, the hiring process (which we are all heading toward!) is usually just marketing your skill set to an employer’s needs. One of the keys to success in the quest for employment—whether finding a new job or retaining your current one—is undoubtedly professionalism. It’s almost like good design; it’s recognized by a few when it’s good and noticed by all when it’s not. So, I think it’s time to get down to brass tacks and talk about professionalism and email.

Emails are the bacon fat clogging my productivity levels, and I bet they are clogging yours too. Sticking to the successful formula of the Four Cs of Copyediting, I’ve come up with my own Four Cs of Emailing.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: email, employment, inbox clutter, Marketing, professionalism

On Finding Your “Niche”: Escaping the Publishing Trajectory

By Amanda Matteo

May 16, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

On Finding Your “Niche”: Escaping the Publishing Trajectory

I spent my time in the New York City publishing scene sitting in a dark hole. Or, at least, that’s what I—and the three other girls with whom I shared one single table in an incredibly cramped, vaguely-uninhabitable alcove—called it. I had just graduated college, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and was ecstatic about the opportunity to […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: burnout, change, employment, moving, New York City, niche, Portland, publishing, rage

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