July, 2012

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Moxie Tip 214: Motivating Factors

Virtual Moxie

Know what motivates you. You can’t fight City Hall, they say, and I’ll add that you can’t fight your own nature with any degree of success. So knowing what motivates you will absolutely bring you one giant step closer to the practice of your dreams. And if that’s not a truly good incentive, I honestly don’t know what is!

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A Woman, still in a Man’s World

The Small Business Blog

The equal pay act was passed in 1970, and you guessed it, us women are still low earners compared to our male counterparts, sometimes earning only ¾ of a man in the same job. In a world where everyone is seen as equal, everyone should be paid equally right?

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Reach Your Goals With a Self-Management Checklist

Ian's Messy Desk

Everybody faces challenges in managing certain aspects of their lives. Someone who loves to go trail riding on a bicycle will have no problems motivating themselves to exercise. However, putting aside time to sit and read might be problematic. On the other hand, the reader might have problems putting down the book and getting active. This self-management checklist can be applied to any area of your life where you need to gain some control.

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Food Trucks = Business Model Innovation

Small Business Labs

The gourmet food truck craze sweeping the nation is a classic example of business model innovation.   And the response from brick and mortar restaurants is a classic example of how incumbent industry participants tend to respond - by using their political power to try and fend off the innovative new firms.   Business model innovation refers to taking a new approach to an existing business or industry.

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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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Barriers Don't Mean The End

Office Dynamics

Happy last Monday of July! Do you believe it? I certainly feel like I have been on the fast track this year and feel like soon I will be putting out my Halloween decorations. In fact, in my mass of catalogs that arrive in my mail, I saw the first one promoting Halloween decorations. Really? Can I please finish my summer? Anyway, life is passing by quickly and I want to share something exciting with you and encourage you that while you may have to put your dreams or goals on the back burner, they

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Why Ask Why When Clients Choose Other VAs?

Virtual Moxie

In May, I wrote a post about letting go of the disappointment when a client chooses another VA. A related question I am sometimes asked by Virtual Assistants is why clients choose VAs other than themselves. These are Virtual Assistants who have mad skills, and who generally are befuddled when clients don't work with them. Mental masturbation--that's what pondering is.

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Created My Own 90-Day Plan

Office Organization Success

We went on another family movie night this week … this time to see the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. It was good — we all enjoyed it! I also spent some time this week on creating my 90-day plan so that I know exactly what I need to be focusing on over the next 90 days. I love days when I get to sit down and plan … gone is the overwhelm.

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New Test Identifies Arrogant Bosses

On The Job

Do you have a boss who discredits the ideas of others while claiming to have superior ideas? Does your boss blame other people and refuse to take personal responsibility for anything? Does your boss reject feedback? If so, you have all the makings of an arrogant boss, someone who can drag down an organization with his or her sense of superiority in all things.

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Small Businesses Often Choose Not to Grow

Small Business Labs

One of the things we consistently hear in our interviews with small business owners (male and female) is most don't want to grow their businesses beyond a certain size.  In most cases the size they want to limit their business to is quite small.   We first explored this topic years ago when we held a series of focus groups to define small business success.  We found small business owners defined success as meeting their personal objectives for the business.  Rarely wa

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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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Top 5 Tips for Dealing With Holidays in a Small Business

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Don’t let it come as a shock to you when an employee is off on holiday.

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Minute-taking webinar, August 14, 2012

Laughing all the Way to Work

It is time again for another minute-taking webinar. My goal for these webinars is to make minute-taking not seem so scarey by breaking down the steps you should take before, during and after the meeting. To take good minutes you need to be prepared and informed. I find if you have these twos things, along with the necessary skills of an admin, you will be much more confident to take on this role.

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Moxie Tip 213: Want to get Ahead?

Virtual Moxie

Just stop. Stop chasing the clients. Stop chasing the skills. Stop chasing the work. Take the time to get help with laying or strengthening your foundation, and then move forward again. To keep doing what you’re doing and expecting to see different results—well, that’s the definition of insanity.

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Quick Biz Tip: Creating A Filing System

Office Organization Success

Creating and maintaining a filing system is the very foundation that your business is built on, so this is the very first system you need to put in place – an efficient and effective filing system. With a proper filing system in place you will very quickly and easily be able to find the information you need, when you need it.

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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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What's the best way to deal with username and password avalanche?

Office Dynamics

What’s the best way to deal with the username and password avalanche? by MARY ELLEN SLAYTER on JULY 5, 2012 8:14AM. in ADMIN PRO FORUM. Question: “Between all my different computer applications at work and at home, I’m absolutely drowning in usernames and passwords—many of which require updating every couple of months. Has anyone finally thought of an easy, secure way to wrangle all of these things?

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Having a Vision For Your Business Is Critical—What’s Yours?

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Have you ever had a really great dream where everything was perfect and things happened just as you wanted them to? And you wake up feeling calm, peaceful and happy? I love dreams like that! Visions can be a lot like dreams, except that visions are mental images that you actually create yourself of how you imagine something to be.

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5 Cloud Computing Security Concerns and How to Mitigate Them

The Small Business Blog

More and more small businesses are moving to cloud computing, signing up with private service providers that offer highly functional, subscription-based solutions that are far cheaper than the traditional in-house hosting method.

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The Boys Initiative - Trying to Stop the End of Boys

Small Business Labs

One of the great things about blogging is you hear from lots of interesting people.  For example, the folks over at The Boys Initiative commented on our post The End of Boys. The Boys Initiative is a non-profit focused on promoting boys health and achievement.  They have a fascinating blog - Attention Must Be Paid - that covers the wide variety of issues boys are facing.   The editor of the blog, Mark Sherman, has a great article in Psychology Today called The End of Boys. 

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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 212: What You Need to Get Clients

Virtual Moxie

It’s not that you can’t get clients without first building your skill set you can, by knowing how to handle the gaps between what you currently can’t do and what the clients need. It’s also not that you can’t get skills without having clients, first—you can, by focusing on learning things that help you make more of your strengths.

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Last 3 Days To Get The Business Building Success Kit

Office Organization Success

Through this simple, 6-week virtual training program you will discover how to: Create a super-duper filing system so you never lose critical information again. Set up your financial management system so that you can easily track your revenues and expenses. Create a fabulous contact management system to make follow-up a cinch = more clients! Put together an irresistible free taste so that you can draw more clients into your pipeline.

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Should you lie for your boss?

Practically Perfect PA

As you’ll know I’ve just started a new job and am in the process of learning how my manager likes to work. Mostly I’m figuring out how he wants me to manage his diary and emails but also how he prioritises his time, which calls he will take and if he really does have an open door policy. This is knowledge that an assistant can only gain over time but eventually it does become second nature and this is where I think we have to be very cautious.

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Las Vegas Project Gains LEED Credential, Thanks to V.P. Cindy Ortega

Eco-Office Gals

As more people become aware of environmental issues, businesses are responding with green marketing campaigns. Many are also establishing more sustainable practices in their business operations. While Las Vegas casinos aren’t the first place one would think of as being eco-friendly, the CityCenter development is in fact a leader in green practices.

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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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Our First eBook Is 99 Cents

Office Dynamics

Exciting news! We just published our first eBook in Office Dynamics history. This eBook is available on Amazon.com right now and it's only 99 cents! July 25 & 26 we are celebrating the release of this eBook with an eBook Launch Party and offering the book at an introductory price of only 99 cents. The eBook will be $8.99 by Friday so hurry and get your copy purchased now.

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Household Income in America

Small Business Labs

People tend to way overestimate how much money people make.  When we tell people the median U.S. household income is about $50,000, we're often told that can't be true and it must be much higher.   NPR has a nice summary of the household income for America's 114.6 million households that includes the following chart.  It shows a breakdown of how many households made different amounts in 2010 (U.S.

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Moxie Tip 211: The Power in Your Words

Virtual Moxie

My words are very powerful. For me. Your words are equally powerful. For you. And your words will resonate more with the clients you attract if they are, indeed your words. If they’re not your words, then the person attracting the clients is, well, someone else, and what’s the point of that when YOU are what you’re “selling?” Be you. Do you. Share you.

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Let Me Help You Create Your 90-Day Plan

Office Organization Success

Another week has whizzed by again … although much quieter this week, I did manage to get two movies in. We took the boys last weekend to see Spiderman, and I had a girls’ night out on Tuesday and we went to see Magic Mike! I’ve been sharing with you over the past couple of weeks about how I’m changing my business model so that it involves more direct one-on-one work with you, and that, as part of that change I’ll be releasing a brand-new program.

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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