June, 2011

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iCloud for Business?

The Small Business Blog

Yesterday saw Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveil iCloud, Apple’s new cloud computing offering for end-users. Question is what is in it for small business or even micro business?

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How Your Childhood May Affect Your Career

On The Job

My mother had a stroke when I was 13-years-old and was paralyzed on her left side. While she regained some use, she had a constant numbness on her left side from the waist up for the rest of her life. At that time, she did her best to be the strong mother she had always been, but things changed. In many ways, I became the parent because she simply couldn't do the things -- emotionally or physically -- that she had before.

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Still Not Using Autoresponders?

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Boy are you missing out! I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve subscribed to a Virtual Assistant, Coach, Speaker, or any online business owner’s eNewsletter that did not generate an immediate autoresponse to thank me for subscribing. Instead, later that day or the next I’ve received an email, obviously from the business owner him/herself.

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Administrative Committees Can Help When You Need It Most

Professional Assistant Blog

Image by Irargerich. A n interesting thing happened to me today. One of the managers that is going to be moving into our offices from another location asked me if I could do her a small favour. Of course, I wanted to help out. She asked me if I could hunt down an iPad charger for her, as she left hers in her office and needed to give it a little boost for a meeting that she was having later today.

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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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It’s Not My Job: The Attitude That’s Killing Your Career

Eat Your Career

This article is the second in a 10-part series on the topic of overcoming career-limiting habits. In a recent study identifying the most common career-limiting habits , “It’s Not My Job” came in second place. This attitude is so prevalent in the workplace and, if you’ve ever worked with a person like this, you know how frustrating it can be. This is not the mindset of a team player.

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Local News Publisher Drops Website, Moves to Facebook

Small Business Labs

The local news company, Rockville Central, recently stopped publishing new content on their Web site and instead is publishing on Facebook. We've posted in the past on the growing trend of small businesses replacing traditional websites with Facebook.  We get a lot feedback telling us this isn't happening and isn't going to happen, but we keep seeing more and more examples.  And because we keep seeing new examples, we continue to think that over the the next 5 years

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Some Things Must Be Believed to Be Seen

Virtual Moxie

I’m teaching a class loosely called “ Get Me Outta Limbo! ” It’s for AssistU Virtual Assistants who feel stuck in some context as they build their businesses. Today was the first of four sessions, and I’ve gotten so much good feedback from participants about a certain thing I shared that I decided to share it with all of you, in case it’s somehow helpful.

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Four Principles to a Customer Focused Business

Make or Break Moments

'Hangers Cleaners in Kansas City was featured on Cool Runnings for taking a different approach to a pretty boring business segment – dry cleaners. Joe Runyon, the owner of Hangers Cleaners shares his thoughts on making a business successful.

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Five C’s of Better Trust Relationships

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. In building trust relationships, the 5Cs – Clarity, Candour, Commitment, Caring, and Communication – offer a simple yet effective guide: Clarity – is constancy of purpose in supporting individuals and teams with the resources of people, time and money that will enable them to accomplish their goals. When you provide resources individuals need to succeed, you ensure the development of the person and their best chance for success.

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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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5 Ways to Develop New Job Leads

On The Job

"Tell everyone you know you're looking for work" is a common refrain from career experts to job seekers. So, the job seeker goes on Twitter or Facebook and says, "I'm looking for a job." That task completed, the person then moves onto something a little less stressful, like trying to make the perfect margarita or catching up on fantasy baseball. For those of you with this job strategy, let me just tell you it's going to be a very long job search for you.

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Is Your Internet Browser Slowing Down Your Research?

Professional Assistant Blog

Image by espensorvik. Y ou're working on some research your manager asked you to do. Things are going well, but you notice that your Internet browser is running really slowly, especially, when trying to load pages with quite a bit of content. Has this ever happened to you? It has many times for me. Personally, I think that using Internet Explorer is not the way to go.

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The Atlantic's 14 Biggest Ideas of the Year

Small Business Labs

Interesting set of essays from The Atlantic on the 14 biggest ideas of the year.  They describes these essays as: A guide to the intellectual trends that, for better or worse, are shaping America right now. (Plus a bunch of other ideas, insights, hypotheses, and provocations.). Here are the direct links to the essays that most caught my eye:  The Rise of the Middle Class - Just Not Ours.

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How to Be a More Reliable Professional

Eat Your Career

This article is the first in a 10-part series on the topic of overcoming career-limiting habits. Unreliability was identified as the number one career-limiting habit and it’s no surprise. After all, if the people you work for (and with) can’t depend on you, what purpose do you serve? Truth be told, unreliable people are actually dangerous to the success of the entire team.

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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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Four Principles to a Customer Focused Business

Make or Break Moments

Hangers Cleaners in Kansas City was featured on Cool Runnings for taking a different approach to a pretty boring business segment – dry cleaners. Joe Runyon, the owner of Hangers Cleaners shares his thoughts on making a business successful. And in his case – being successful in an industry that is declining. Watch the video, [.].

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FacileThings Gives Time Back To You

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. This guest post is provided by Francisco Sáez of FacileThings. A couple of years ago I was immersed in a very busy and unpleasant lifestyle, working too hard as a Project Director for a Spanish software development company. I hardly had time to enjoy weekends because of the strong feeling of not catching up on my commitments.

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Easy Ways to be Productively Profitable - Listen Live Wednesday at 11:00AM CST

Stephanie LH Calahan

Does your day seem to disappear before your eyes?  Critical tasks left undone? Desperate for a solution?  Productivity and profitability do go hand in hand! Tune in and join Nicole Fende and me to learn about profitable productivity and become a Finance Rock Star. Wednesday, June 29, 2011 -- 11:00 AM CST. Hosted by Nicole Fende, author of the forthcoming book, "How to be a Finance Rock Star" Nicole is a credentialed actuary, experienced CFO, former Investment Banker and Presi

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Urgent Tasks? Many Mistakes!

Professional Assistant Blog

Image by Erin! Y ou get an e-mail from your boss asking you to do a very urgent task. You realize that you are leaving in an hour and can't stay behind. You explain to your boss that you would be able to complete the task in time, but due to the lack of time on your side, there might be errors made and would prefer to postpone it until the following day.

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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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Comparing Small Business Owners and High-Growth Entrepreneurs

Small Business Labs

High-growth entrepreneurship - mostly from the technology industry - has become the poster child for U.S. business success.  Start-up founders have rock star status, with their exploits covered in places like Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone in addition to the business press.  Yet high-growth entrepreneurial enterprises make up less than 1% of U.S. small businesses overall.  This means, of course, that the vast majority of America's small business owners aren

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Killer Customer Service, or Customer-Killer Service?

Customers Rock!

A friend of mine has been a member of a particular airline’s frequent flier program (we will call this major US airline, AirlineX) for a number of years. He even has a credit card linked to that account to help accrue points. This friend had earned enough miles for a free trip to Europe but hadn’t been able to fly AirlineX for awhile since his company now required him to fly the cheapest option (which this airline never was).

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Top 5 Tips for Avoiding Small Business Procrastination

The Small Business Blog

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Long To-Do lists can be depressing and make it difficult to get started. Arrange the list so that the quickest tasks are completed first and the list will get shorter. 2.

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Getting Coached Is Catching On

Job Advice Blog

One of the most basic rules in economics deals with supply and demand. Today’s job market certainly has a significant supply: 13.9 million people looking for jobs. But demand has been meager for the past several years; it probably will continue to be for the near future; and—at least at this point—it does not show [.].

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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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How to Improve your Homes Energy Efficiency Rating

Eco-Office Gals

Making your home more energy efficient has many benefits, including reducing the cost of high energy bills, improving personal comfort, and helping to protect the environment. As the cost of energy rises and people’s awareness of the harmful effects of energy production increases, the demand for environmentally renewable energy sources becomes greater than ever before.

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It is Easy to Answer "Where Does My Time Go" with Chrometa - Interview CEO @BrettOwens

Stephanie LH Calahan

The question of " Where in the world does my time really go? " is often asked by frustrated business owners.  You work hard and it seems that there are never enough hours in a day.  This gets even more complex if your business uses time tracking to bill clients.  I remember the first time I was told I needed to track my time in 15 minute increments - we called them units.  It was back when I worked for a large consulting firm.  I thought the idea of tracking

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McDonald's Very Cool Interactive Billboard

Small Business Labs

McDonald's created a billboard in Stockholm, Sweden with a Pong-like game called Pick n' Play that allowed people passing by to play using their smartphones.  Players who did well at the game won coupons for free food at a nearby McDonald's store. JWT Intelligence has a nice description and a short video showing people playing the game.

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Cover Your Butt: Using E-mails To Track Dialogue

Professional Assistant Blog

Image by Valerie Everett. ? D o you get numerous requests from your staff on a regular basis? Of course, who doesn't. But the question really is, are you able to prove that you did the task that you were asked to do? I'm sure that everyone one of us has encountered this at least once in our careers, more so for the veteran Administrative Assistants.

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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