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When you are handed a business card of a professional with letters after their name, what thought comes to mind? That of the infamous billionaire Thurston Howell III, the famous character from TV sitcom Gilligan’s Island , who was tactless, blameful, pretentious, and lazy? Or, the customer-serving, career-mind, educated professional who wants to do the job right the first time to earn your praise and your smile? Letters after names mean things. They should be a prerequisite when choosing your next professional. The Difference is in the Details Letters after names are officially called “post-nominal letters.” They can be earned for a number of accomplishments. Letters can be earned for academic education, accreditation, certification, designation, and / or recognition. Though the result is the same – the professional can place some letters after their name – the prestigiousness of the accomplishments are not the same. There are clear levels of accomplishmen...

If you’ve made a mistake in your business, a verbal apology is much more difficult than a written one. In a written apology, time can be taken to chose and pick words appropriate for the situation. A written apology gives time to the recipient as well to think about the situation and respond accordingly. If the business relationship is intimate, the approach has to be more romantic. References to the good times spent working or venturing in a project together may be included to suggest that it would be very foolish to terminate a relationship that both parties cherish. “I am sorry” letter in business preferably should be written by the owner of the company and best accompanied by small gifts. Even if the letter is a brief one, it must specify what the apology is for. The feeling of regret and repentance must be put across very clearly. Handwritten letters are said to work wonders in such cases. At times apologies need to be put across in a customer relationship as well...

No matter what size of business you work for or own, there will most likely come a time that you have to write a business letter of some type. Writing letters, whether they are for business or for personal needs, can be very stressful if you are not accustomed to writing them, but by using a system and the letter templates that come with it, you can craft the letters that will meet your business needs quickly and easily. The ideal system should include many different template options that will fit any possible situation for your business. These templates should be MS Word formatted to allow you to cut, copy, and paste the parts that you need for your own business letters to take some of the worry and stress out of the writing. The samples of business letter templates should encompass all of the different letters that you may want to write in your business dealings. What types of business letters are typically used in the corporate setting? Think thank you notes, sympathy letters, finan...