Knowing I was going to be out of touch for a while, I prepared everything I needed ahead of time. That included setting up the following autoresponder message for all the e-mails I would be receiving while I was gone.

The next time you order a pint of your favorite frosty brew at a pub or restaurant, check out the glass. You might be getting shortchanged. In response to rising costs, some establishments have turned to raising beer prices and (shudder) substituting traditional 16-ounce pint glasses with 14-ouncers, known as…

Issue #2402 WEALTHY: What’s most likely to make you a bundle in the next two years?  (Clayton Makepeace) HEALTHY: 3 reasons to waste less food (2 of them might surprise you!) (Judith Strauss) WISE: General Douglas MacArthur on opportunity ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Should you worry about how much your…

Let’s say you own a business and you’re trying to decide what kinds of products you should be developing. Or you’re a copywriter trying to select the clients and projects most likely to make you a bundle over the next year or so. Right off the bat, you know it isn’t going to be easy.

If you were at a work-related function in, say, New York or Chicago, would you address people in Portuguese? Probably not. But you’d be surprised by how many businesspeople lapse into foreign “languages.” I’m talking about using technical or industry-specific jargon.

A “claque” (KLAK) – from the French for “clap” – is a group of fawning admirers, sometimes hired to applaud at a performance.

The 7-million-square-foot South China Mall in Dongguan, China is the largest in the world

If you could be a fly on the wall at ETR, there’s no telling what kind of valuable information you could pick up. Just the other day, in fact, MaryEllen revealed a small but powerful piece of advice… something that could change your whole perspective on marketing.

Three decades ago, Herbert Benson, MD, the pioneering doctor who helped introduce the concept of mind-body medicine to the U.S., studied qi gong while he was researching what he termed “the relaxation response.” He concluded that to reach a state of deep relaxation, all you have to do is control your body, your breathing, and your mind.

To “adumbrate” (uh-DUM-brate) – from the Latin for “shadow” – is to foreshadow or give a sketchy outline.

If your designer or Web development firm suggests a cool Flash design, resist the temptation and say no.