Sat.Feb 04, 2012 - Fri.Feb 10, 2012

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I'm Not a Bank: Dealing With Late-Paying Clients

Virtual Moxie

(Image Credit: 123RF Stock Photos). Molly wrote to pick my brain : "I have a client I really enjoy working with. Unfortunately, she sometimes pays late. It’s getting to be more often, too. Whenever she has to pay late, it’s because either she didn’t bill her clients on time so her money didn’t arrive soon enough to use it to pay me, or her clients are late paying her and she doesn’t have it to pay me on time.

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7 Ways to Tell a Story That Makes Employers Crazy About You

On The Job

Career experts often advise job seekers or networkers to “tell your story.” But what does that mean? Should you share how you won the school science fair in third grade or how you once locked your keys in the car with the engine still running? It’s difficult to know exactly what story to tell at the right time – and how to make it interesting enough that eyes don’t start to glaze over or someone pulls the fire alarm just to get away from you.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Videoconferencing

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. When preparing for a video call, check your background. Try to broadcast without any distractions or movement in the background as this may affect the quality of the call. 2.

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The Rise of Small and Micro Manufacturing

Small Business Labs

U.S. manufacturing is on a roll.   The New York Times recently called manufacturing a " Surprising Bright Spot in the U.S. Economy ", the sector has added 330,00 jobs over the last two years, manufacturing economic indicators continue to rise and the President has made manufacturing the center of his economic policy. The times are even more exciting for small (less than 100 employees) and micro (less than 5 employees) manufacturers.  Most people don't realize how many sma

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Inspire Your Team, and Everybody Wins

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. As a Virtual Assistant, it’s likely you have team members that help you in supporting your clients. . And, for many of you, you may also have a team to support YOUR OWN business! What does your team mean to your business? If your business is running optimally, your team is likely RUNNING your business! Having a team has allowed your business to expand, offer a wide variety of services, take on more clients, and bring in more income.

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Busting a few blogging myths for small businesses

The Small Business Blog

When I speak to business owners, whether to a group or one on one, about social media and, particularly, blogging, I often get a sense of unease in the room. A lot of that is to do with people’s fears about writing, being wrong, being creative, having enough time, criticism from others etc etc.

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I Miss the "Mail Moment"

Small Business Labs

Bell tolls for the U.S. Mail, as we know it is a wonderful story from USA Today on the end of a great American traditional the postal service calls "the mail moment"   This moment occurs when we collect, sort and open our mail - and do so with a bit of excitement and anticipation.   Younger readers will wonder what I'm talking about.  They've never experienced the pre-email, pre-social media "mail moment"  But folks who grew up prior to the Interne

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Moxie Tip 113: Scram, Fear!

Virtual Moxie

If fear drives you, you'll never have the business you want. Figure out what the fears are, root them out (with help if you need it!), so that they're out of your way once and for all!

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10 ways to sabotage your job interview

Job Advice Blog

If you’re job search isn’t yielding the results you’d like, chances are you’re sabotaging your own efforts. Over the course of 22 years as a recruiter and 3 years as a coach, I have repeatedly seen people get in their own way and not realize it. Here are 11 ways in which you might be [.].

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Guide to Winning New Clients

The Small Business Blog

Your business will only succeed if you have a healthy client base. In that respect any business, big or small, faces two continuing tasks. Winning new clients and keeping existing clients. Both are as important as each other and together they will ensure the success of any business.

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Employer Embraces Older Workers

On The Job

I've heard plenty of horror stories about age discrimination in job interviews, so it was really refreshing to hear something positive about an employer who not only actively seeks out older job candidates, but older workers who say they've found new careers that inspire and rejuvenate them. Here's the latest story I did for Gannett/USAToday.com. Gisela Ashley had been a real-estate agent for about 18 years when she decided to take inheritance money from her father and go back to school.

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Want to Win "How to be a Finance Rock Star" - Then Help Find Fluffy!

Stephanie LH Calahan

My good friend Nicole Fende is really excited about her new book and so am I!  She is running a fun promotion to bring exposure to her book and you could benefit! Don’t miss your chance to win a copy of Nicole’s new book How to be a Finance Rock Star. All you have to do is help Nicole find Fluffy the Finance Feline, who is currently MIA, gallivanting around the globe.

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Freelancing and the 3 Laws of Future Employment

Small Business Labs

New Geography's The Three Laws of Future Employment looks at a mix of issues around future employment with a focus on whether or not we need more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) graduates. The part of the article I'm most intrigued by are the 3 laws of future employment.  These are: Law #1: People will get jobs doing things that computers can’t do.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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A Bias For Action – Vital

The Small Business Blog

Successful Business Ownership Many commentators point to ‘innovation’, ‘nimbleness’ and ‘flexibility’ as advantages entrepreneurs and small business owners have over their BigCo competitors.

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Kobe System: Expansion of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Productivity Bits

Have you seen Kobe Bryant’s “Kobe System” advertisement ? In the ad, Kobe facilitates a seminar for highly successful people on how to achieve greater success. His audience includes Tony Robbins, Kanye West, Richard Branson, and Serena Williams, among others. I am fascinated by Kobe Bryant’s latest Nike advertisement mainly because I look at it as expansion of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

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The Cost and Benefits of Career Coaching

Job Advice Blog

So, what is career coaching? Many people nowadays use the term career coaching, but they’re not sure they understand its meaning or whether they’re using it in the right context. Any kind of coaching consists of the practice of supporting an individual or a group that has the objective of reaching a predetermined goal or [.].

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Be a Change Agent

Office Dynamics

Hello Monday Motivators! You are the first to get a peek at a chapter from our new book for executive and administrative and executive assistants coming out March 1, 2012 entitled Who Took My Pen. Again? I am sure you are wondering what writing project I was working on for 2 months when I took a break from Monday Motivators! Jasmine Freeman, Nancy Fraze, and I have been working on an awesome collaborative project that was born at our 18th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence the end o

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Moxie Tip 116: Chase or Attract

Virtual Moxie

You can chase the work and clients by chasing hot skills, or you can do what you love and attract clients who need that. What sounds better to you?

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Powerpoint Presentations

Ian's Messy Desk

You would think in this day and age of Garr Reynold and Presentation Zen , Seth Godin and Really Bad PowerPoint or Cliff Atkinson and Beyond Bullet Points , there would be no excuse for poor quality PowerPoint presentations. Unfortunately, people continue to churn out ineffective presentations. Here are some links and resources for improving presentations: Joseph Sommerville provides a list of common presentation sins.

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The Global, Human, Strategic Accountant

Small Business Labs

The CPA Success blog has a good article on the new Chartered Global Management Accountant designation. This is a joint effort between two large accounting associations, the AICPA and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. This is interesting for several reasons. First, the accounting profession realizes businesses of all sizes are increasingly global.  This means accounting professionals need to have the skills to advise their clients on global issues.  It's good to s

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What is a Cash Flow Projection?

Office Organization Success

One important area of your Financial Management System is that of a Cashflow projection. Put simply, a Cashflow projection shows whether your anticipated income will be able to cover your expected (projected) expenses and this report is very beneficial to you in your business. It is an annual report and, if set up correctly, will show you how cash will flow through your business throughout the current financial year.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Moxie Tip 114: Don't Leave $ on the Table!

Virtual Moxie

You could be leaving money on the table if you don't let your clients know what you've learned and how you've upgraded your skills and how all of that can help them. You can also be leaving money on the table if your upgraded learned and skills allow you to help clients in new and powerful ways but you don't raise your fee. Don't leave money on the table!!

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How to Conduct Small-Group Meetings

Ian's Messy Desk

One approach to ensure effective decision making in small, informal meetings is to develop motions and decisions through consensus. Consensus occurs when there is general agreement by the group on the decision being made. Well managed meetings allow all participants to be part of the decision making process. Here are some techniques a chairperson can use to encourage and support group participation and discussion: The chair solicits views.

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Portuguese Assistants

Professional Assistant Blog

Image by tiseb. T his is a guest post from Diana Ferreira from Secretariando. There is a lot to be made here in Portugal regarding this career. The first problem is that being an Assistant is still not seen as a career at all. Executives have a career and assistants have a “small job” which consists of serving executives. The role of assistants inside corporations or public companies only recently started to change but changes are always difficult and slow.

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Want to know how to leverage the new signups to YOUR list?

Office Organization Success

One of the very first systems you need to create for your online business is a way for you to capture your website visitor’s details. And to do that you need to offer them something of value in exchange for them parting with their name and email address (this is also known as pink spoon marketing). Whatever it is you decide to give to your visitor, it needs to be of incredible value to them and solve one of their biggest issues — you need to give them your best stuff, without giving away t

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha