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

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How to Shorten Your Job Search

Job Advice Blog

People in transition know that finding a new, suitable job is a process—and most often, an unpleasant and lengthy one. While this is true in most cases, it doesn’t have to be that way, provided the job seeker understands the search process and becomes efficient with planning, creative thinking, networking, and research. Where Do You [.].

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Things To Think About Before Quitting Your Day Job and Starting Your Own Business

The Small Business Blog

When you’ve got a great idea for setting up your own business, the freedom of being in charge of your own destiny can be very alluring. So, it can occasionally be tempting to throw caution to the wind and get started straight away.

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Listening With Heart

Virtual Moxie

Here’s a story: There once was a little girl who wanted to talk with her father when he got home from work. She loved waiting for him to arrive so she could tell him all about her day. But each night he would sit in his chair, and read his paper while she talked to him -- muttering the occasional "uh huh" along the way, and managing to smile or chuckle at appropriate moments.

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Coworking Facilities as Mini-Industrial Clusters

Small Business Labs

We've noticed that a growing number of coworking facilities are starting to look and act like mini-industrial clusters. Industrial clusters are geographic concentrations of firms that broadly serve the same industry and have common needs for talent, technology and business infrastructure.  Firms within a cluster may be competitive or cooperative and are often reliant on other firms in the cluster as suppliers and/or customers.   Some of the best known large U.S. clusters include

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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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Finding the Right Clients Starts With Knowing Where To Look

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Some years ago (for those of us “seasoned” enough to remember), there was a very popular country song entitled, “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.” It was quite a catchy little tune, and it came to mind as I began today’s article. Do you ever feel like you’ve been looking for clients the same way? Indeed, finding the right clients can be a challenge.

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Moxie Tip 219: Are You a Life Preserver?

Virtual Moxie

Stay away from the want to save, and the people who want to be saved. What I would suggest you look for are the people who already have it together and want to bring you in as a partner to help take their businesses further, rather than the people whose businesses are a mess and are looking for a savior.

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How to Convey Executive Presence Without Saying a Word

On The Job

I cannot believe the latest column I did for Gannett/USAToday seems to be sparking an online squabble over dog training techniques. Let me make one thing clear: This column is not about dog training techniques. Now, read on if you want to know how to establish your credibility through body language. When Cesar Millan , known on TV as the Dog Whisperer , walks into a room full of canines, the four-legged followers know immediately that he's in charge.

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Lack of Time and the Rise of Personal Services

Small Business Labs

We've long been fascinated by the growing number of small personal services firms.  These are firms that provide life support services to increasingly harried, time-constrained and often affluent consumers. Basically, these folks are paid to do things that in the past we used to do on our own, or did without. This category includes traditional personal services like gardening, house cleaning and pool cleaning.   It also includes a growing number of newer professions like�

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#Cinchspiration Week #5-6

Eco-Office Gals

I didn’t drop off the face of the earth dear readers. I’ve just been beating myself up inside and I struggle when it comes to sharing the ugly truth. I haven’t done well lately, and I have no one to blame but myself! Life has been one hurdle after the other and I’m just eating my way through it I guess. I’m not going whine or cry, I’m just going to try to get back on track.

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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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Moxie Tip 221: When Challenge is Good

Virtual Moxie

An important distinction is the distinction between challenging work, and challenging clients. You want to the former to keep you sharp, and keep things interesting. You absolutely do NOT need the latter. Look for challenging work, and easy clients.

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Tea Maid

Practically Perfect PA

If there is one thing people know about me it is that I love a good cup of tea, I am English after all! I plan my tea breaks at work so that I get a chance to step away from my desk and, you know, load up on some caffeine while having a small amount of ‘me’ time. I worked at a few different places before I moved into an assistant role and I always made my own tea or coffee and because of this I never really made drinks for anyone else, call me selfish or fussy but that was the way it was.

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Big Name Chefs Starting Food Trucks

Small Business Labs

Good article on Zagat's on Hawaiin celebrity chef Sam Choy starting a food truck in Los Angeles. According to Zagat's his Pineapple Express truck will bring "poke, Kalua pork sandwiches and Mauie Wowie chopped salads to those starved for a taste of the islands."      It turns out a lot of well known chefs are starting food trucks, or partnering with others to start food trucks that take advantage of the celebrity chef's brand.

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Quick Biz Tip To Organize Your Blog

Office Organization Success

Create Categories: These are a great way to organize your articles and group relevant information together. You can create several main categories for your articles, and even create sub-categories if you’re so inclined. By assigning each one of your blog posts a category, you will make it really easy for your blog visitors to find the information that they’re most interested in.

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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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Moxie Tip 217: Spreading Yourself Too Thin

Virtual Moxie

Online relationship pundits often make it sound like you should make time for everyone who wants it--that's the way to build relationships. But if you look at them closely, you'll see that they don't actually do that. They can't--if they did, they'd have no lives outside the connecting they did with people who wanted their time. And you can't do that, either.

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Tea Maid

Practically Perfect PA

If there is one thing people know about me it is that I love a good cup of tea, I am English after all! I plan my tea breaks at work so that I get a chance to step away from my desk and, you know, load up on some caffeine while having a small amount of ‘me’ time. I worked at a few different places before I moved into an assistant role and I always made my own tea or coffee and because of this I never really made drinks for anyone else, call me selfish or fussy but that was the way it was.

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Environmentally Friendly Web Hosting

Eco-Office Gals

The world is full of people who care about the environment and who are willing to do everything that they can to help the environment. Recycling, reducing energy consumption, changing purchasing habits, driving less; the list goes on and on. Many people even purchase computers that are energy efficient and when their computer is no longer usable, they send it off the electronics recycling depot.

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Using Big Data to Improve Neighborhoods

Small Business Labs

Described as the Facebook for Neighborhoods, the startup Next Door recently raised $18.6 million which will be used to expand operations. According to a GigaOm story about Next Door , they have: "about 3,700 neighborhoods on board in 48 states with a median of 600 to 700 members in each network. The service is adding 22 neighborhoods every day now."  Next Door is an example of the growing number of companies focused on neighborhood enhancement and discovery.  Another ex

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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 218: Knowing What You Want

Virtual Moxie

Imagine how freeing it would be if you knew so clearly what you want and don't want for your practice and your life. Imagine that, knowing that, you could get so good at deciding in less than five minutes whether to give another person any of your time without second guessing yourself, or later, looking back and wondering if your decision was "right" or "smart.

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What is Your Business Website Saying?

Tips From T. Marie

Did you know that 75% of web users admit that they judge a business based on the design of their website? A Stanford Web Credibility study proved it back in 2002. If it were true 10 years ago, imagine how true it is in today’s ‘connected’ society! I guarantee that number is higher today, probably somewhere closer to 95%!! Smartphones, tablets and other portable computing devices have given us all the ability to research any business we may be interested in quickly and easily

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5 Tips for a Greener Office

Eco-Office Gals

Many offices are doing their part to go green these days. You really can’t afford not to with all the paper and electricity that is being wasted on a daily basis. Unfortunately, not enough of them are implementing the kinds of green, waste-cutting measures that are necessary. Below are just a few simple tips you can use to make your office environment just a little greener. 1.

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Knee-Deep in Launch Mode

Office Organization Success

I am loving watching the Olypmics … and it’s great to finally see Team GB win a few gold medals! It’s less than three weeks now until the boys head back to school. The summer seems to have flown by so quickly. I promised them that next week we’ll go school supplies shopping. Any excuse for me to head off to Staples! This week I’ve been knee-deep in a major launch for one of my clients.

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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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Pet Supply Sales Continue to Grow

Small Business Labs

Regular readers know we like pet trends here at Smallbizabs, especially the trend towards pet humanization.  This is the growing trend of pet owners seeing their pets as full fledged family members and themselves as "pet parents" Pet parents treat their children well, which is why pet industry revenues continue to grow.  According to an article in Media Post,  U.S. retail sales of non-food pet supplies totaled $11.1 billion in 2011, up 2% over 2010.

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Caution: Enter at your own risk!

Laughing all the Way to Work

I once worked with someone who had body language that you could read like a book. Stern looks, sad demeanor, very angry looking at times, sighing, interrupting while you were talking, especially when they were not in agreement, by harrumphing, sighing and rolling the eyes. It was disconcerting, but they didn't appear to be aware they were doing it. When I pointed it out, they said, "I can't help the way I look".

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When the sick day really isn't one, how do you explain it?

Office Dynamics

I noticed this question was a hot topic and I certainly had an opinion on it. I am looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this one as well. From our friends at Business Management Daily. When the sick day really isn't one. Question: “Like many companies, mine differentiates between sick time and personal time. Sometimes, I wake up in the morning and just feel like spending the day at home or running errands, but because we’re supposed to schedule personal time in advance, I’m stuck with hav

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The Subtle Benefits Of Being Born In The Wrong Place

Brilliantly Better

I was born and raised in Romania. For many years, I thought I was born in the wrong place. From a certain point of view, I still believe this. There are just too many things going wrong around here: we don’t have proper roads, our politicians are notoriously stupid and it’s almost impossible to get [.].

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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