Diana Kostigen
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- Obesity: Ways employers can help cut down on sick days
- Ways to stay organized at work, at play and after a long, hard day
- Giving the gift of love back to the community this Valentines Day
- Top Tips to Make Business Travel more Tolerable
- Electronics: When does spending your hard-earned cents, make sense?
- New electronics give more reasons to stay in bed on the weekend
- Three ways to get back around the dinner table after a long day at work
- The right computer monitor for both home office and home entertainment
- Hi-tech gadgets to keep you and your pet happy at work
- What not to Wear While Workin' it at Work
- Cool backyard entertaining for clients and coworkers
- Ways to maneuver meals on the go without the fast food frenzy
- How to make your workspace a little bit more livable
- Tips for tackling the job search in tough times
- To give or not to give; gift giving etiquette in the workplace
- Table manners, tipping and phone talk: Business etiquette tips
- Beach-ready body by summer; Tips for busy business professionals
- Morning Madness: Better get yourself a "beefy" breakfast
- Power surge protection
- Sattelite TV & radio keep commutes a bit cooler this summer
- Morning Dash; Smart bathrooms get you out the door a little quicker
- Microsoft outlook top tips and tricks
- Top summertime trend fashion fixes
- Discout shopping brings new means to an end
- Asheville's Aesop brings new legacy to business leadership
- Employee incentives help keep productivity up while keeping costs down
- Keeping connected: how networking can increase your net worth
- Business partnerships are better for clients and help build businesses
- Successful salesmanship doesn't have to mean selling your soul
- Business coaching helps better your business and yourself
- Smart home office: it's time to "tech" it up a bit
- E-mail ettiquette while you're at work and at play
- Bad customer service could be the catalyst for a crumbling company
- E-newsletters are a simple way to clients and your company connected
- Training is just as important on the job as it was on the campus
- Linkdin helps take business networking to the next level
- Self-care for a bit more sanity
- Working out the website woes
-Four ways to stay focused to avoid those workplace "fender benders"
-In business branding, image really is everything
-During Tough Times, Asheville Businesses need to Stand Together to Give
-Choosing a Business Name Need not be Challenging
-Business Branding Part Two: Who's your Target
- Make 2009 the year of "no business fear"



"Shop Talk" Asheville Citizen-Times January 2008- current