Salaries. It's the elephant in the room, the bush many professionals spend too much time beating around, the 800-pound gorilla that most professionals would do anything to avoid wrestling with. 

Can negotiating your salary be awkward? Yes. 

Does it have to be? No. 

We all know that feeling of anxiety that stirs within us when trying to explain why we deserve to be paid a certain amount of money. We're here to put that fear to rest and give you the tools you need to negotiate your way to the salary you deserve.

Join us Wednesday, June 29 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PTfor our next #BizChats Twitter chat, where we'll be discussing the good, the bad and the ugly of salary negotiation. 

Joining us will be: Karen Keller, creator of the Keller Influence Indicator® and influence expert; Lewis Lin, author of Five Minutes to a Higher Salary; Meghan Godorov, career consultant & speaker; and Victoria Pynchon, negotiation consultant, author, & trainer at She Negotiates. 

Follow @MashBusiness, and join the chat by using the hashtag #BizChats. Don’t miss out — we have tons of tips to share. We look forward to hearing your questions

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