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Love Your Career

Office Dynamics

I have always been a “career-minded” woman since I was a little girl. When I was about 10 or 11, I went from house to house in our neighborhood selling my Mom’s used magazines. When I got a little older, I went to work at my uncle’s beauty salons in Cleveland, OH. I was responsible for collecting money from the customers and straightening the product shelves.

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The Large and Rapidly Growing U.S. On-Demand Economy

Small Business Labs

The research firm BIA/Kelsey estimates that in 2016 local U.S. on-demand economy generated $34 billion in revenue. They are forecasting this will grow to $57 billion in 2017.  BIA/Kelsey is an analyst firm focusing on the local advertising and marketing marketplace. Because of this, they have a relatively narrow definition of the on-demand economy.

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Top 10 Venues in London that Every PA Should Know About

Practically Perfect PA

So your boss has asked you to find another unique meeting room, locate a cool party venue for the office do and source a screening room for an investor pitch. Your to-do list is as long as your arm and you have no idea where to start. Enter HeadBox. HeadBox is an online marketplace where you can instantly search, book and pay for fantastic Spaces for meetings, off-sites and events.

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Safety First: Avoid Disasters By Minimizing Risks at Work

Eco-Office Gals

Workplace safety is an integral part of any successful business. If employees feel safe in their work environment and there are no injuries, there’s no need for disruptive downtime. Additionally, preventing the likelihood of injury claims helps to keep premium costs reasonable, which is beneficial for everyone. Implementing a thorough workplace safety policy involves analyzing several areas of your workplace.

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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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How Even Obnoxious Colleagues Can Help Your Career

On The Job

When you're on the job, you often engage in idle chitchat with your colleagues. "What's your favorite hobby?" "Is is supposed to rain today?" or "Do you have big plans this weekend?" are some common topics. Nothing earth-shattering -- just a way to be pleasant to co-workers. Many years ago, a new co-worker of mine asked me in the first 10 minutes of meeting her: "How much money do you make?

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Why focus for productivity?

Clutter Coach

by Did you know that sticking to your task makes you happier? When you let your mind wander, even to a pleasant memory, studies show you’ll be unhappy. I remember reading about this in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s terrific book Flow. In it, he writes about being in the flow, where you are totally engaged with your task, whatever it is. Being in the flow feels great.

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3 Simple Steps To Manage Your Budget And Cashflow

Office Organization Success

Along with paper piles, budget and Cashflow is another area that can be a huge source of overwhelm and frustration! . And I bet the very title of this article made you think twice about reading it. In your corporate days you would have had a bookkeeping/accounting department that took care of all of this for you – they paid the invoices, they tracked the receivables, they tracked the income, and they told you the bottom line!

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Audio Testimonial Video for Credibility Building and Reputation Management

Andrea Kalli

Here’s a perfect example of a testimonial video that doesn’t include anyone recording themselves on video. It uses audio instead. It’s ideal to highlight the clients who you have impacted the most and want to praise your relationship and work. One idea is to have a call-in phone number that records the message into an easy to share format, such as mp3.

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3 out of 4 Americans Have Smartphones

Small Business Labs

Pew Internet recently updated their technology adoption numbers for the U.S. As the Pew chart below shows: nearly nine-in-ten Americans today are online, up from about half in the early 2000s. roughly three-quarters of Americans (77%) now own a smartphone. nearly three-quarters (73%) of Americans indicate that they have broadband service at home. 69% of U.S. adults are social media users. 51% of U.S. adults own a tablet computer, up from just 3% in 2010.

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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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Podcast 043: Boss hat/employee hat

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! In this episode, I’ll talk about alternating between being the boss and being the employee in order to be more effective. Here are some highlights: Why do I have to separate them? What if I’m better at one than the other? I just want to do it.

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Why You Shouldn't Always Trust Your Gut

On The Job

How much do you trust your gut instincts? According to a new research, you may be relying on them too much. While there is often a lot of data and analytics available to use in a hiring decision or a performance evaluation, for example, many employees still rely on their own intuition to make a decision, find researchers at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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IT Network Assessment promo video for client

Andrea Kalli

This short and visual IT Network Assessment promo video for a client may not seem like much, but it’s perfect when placed at the top of their Network Assessment web page. In under 20 seconds, it includes many elements, however brief: branding, credibility building, problem, solution, an offer, call-to-action. All wrapped up in a design consistent with the underlying theme – that technology is what they do and who they are at their core.

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Career Success A to Z: K is for Karma

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. This week’s topic is a little out there, but stick with me. Once again, my thoughts on this topic are fully summed up in my book, The Proactive Professional. So below, I provide a short excerpt: Building Career Karma. I strongly believe in the concept of karma , the Buddhist belief that your actions in this life will come back to you in the next.

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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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Real world productivity

Clutter Coach

by Sometimes I come across a description of what productive people are like and I think, that’s not me. It’s probably not even most people. If productivity seems effortless, it’s because you’re not seeing what’s behind the scenes. Here’s what you’re missing. How do productive people get things done? The tasks are on their to do lists.

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The Lost Art Of Customer Service Within The Tech Industry

Small Business CEO

Reinvigorating Customer Service in the Tech Industry. The tech industry is often highly impersonal — especially among companies that sell digital goods. A company can sell a digital service entirely over the Internet. The buyer pays online, and the service activates itself automatically. During the buyer’s entire time as a customer, he may never interact with an actual person.

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These are the Productivity Tools I Love

Productivityist

I’ve long been a big believer in focusing on the approach before the application. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t use my fair share of tools to get the job done. So I’m going to share with you the productivity tools that I love, broken down by how they help me with the three core components of my approach to personal productivity: Time Theming , Task Mapping , and Taking Stock.

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3 Productivity Mistakes ALL Entrepreneurs Tend to Make…

Brilliantly Better

This is a guest post by Matthew Turner. Did you know that Arianna Huffington once broke her cheekbone because she was so exhausted and burnt-out from the “hustle”? It’s true. Back in 2007, she was sat at home on the… The post 3 Productivity Mistakes ALL Entrepreneurs Tend to Make… appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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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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Top Tips for Gathering Actionable Data for Your Business

Small Business CEO

Understanding your customer base is one of the key elements of running a successful business; but that can be a much more difficult prospect than it sounds at first brush. How do you gather quantitative data about potential customers? How can you analyze it for actionable information? How do you deploy those suggestions in your business framework? All of these questions are big ones for businesses which are trying to be more data forward.

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How I Fixed My Broken Writing Process

Productivityist

Belle B. Cooper works on content and copywriting for RescueTime , an app that helps you understand how you spend your time so you can be more productive every day. For the past four or five years, I’ve been spending hours every week researching and writing articles. Almost every article I write requires several hours of research. Plus, there is always drafting and editing time.

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How to Rank Your Business Website on Google

Small Business CEO

It’s true, being visible online is the bread n’ butter for any small business owner in the digital age. Although most of us know this, we often find it difficult to allocate time to it. At No Yelling, we have made point of incorporating SEO strategies into our daily operations, making it easier for us to tackle new locations and grow the business. We rely heavily on SEO to generate leads and have developed some neat little tricks over the years.

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Learning to Scale: How to Grow a Home-based Food Business

Small Business CEO

Many home-food businesses, particularly artisanal producers, fear that there is no way to sustain or scale their food business without investing in their own premises and resources. Thankfully it’s just not true thanks to rental commercial kitchens. If you’re one of the UK’s 2.9 million homepreneurs, don’t be afraid to grow your food business.

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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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Worker Worries – Preventing the Simple Mishaps of Workplace Safety

Small Business CEO

Workplace injuries are one of the worst things that can happen to your employees and your business. Not only does it cause your employee physical and emotional distress, but it also decreases work morale, and can also put your business in serious financial trouble if something drastic has happened. Don’t let your business fall victim to an injury or hazard that can be easily prevented; we’ve put together 5 simple tips and tricks that can help you prevent the simple mishaps regarding workplace sa

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5 Tools to Protect Your Small Business

Small Business CEO

Small-business owners are always fighting the clock. But time management isn’t just essential to getting more done. Saving extra minutes here and there can be the difference between stagnation and business growth. That’s why I’ve been pushing my team to build resources that make business owners’ lives easier. Last fall, they built a tool I’m proud of.

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5 Tips for a Successful Product Launch

Small Business CEO

A successful product launch is what every business wishes for, but which a few achieve in real life. Having a revolutionary new product or service is no guarantee of success. After spending millions in product development, you can watch your brainchild fail to gain traction from day one. While it may look easy when Apple sells over a million new iPhones in the first few days, successful launches require strategy.

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7 Steps to Being a Better Client (or, How to Make Sure The Job’s Done Well)

Small Business CEO

As the client, you’re paying for a service (in our case PR, video or integrated comms) because you either don’t have the time or the expertise to carry it out internally. And since you’re the one footing the bill, it’s understandable that you might think your job is simply to sign the contract and then wait for the agency to deliver. They’re the experts after all, so there’s no reason to expect that they wouldn’t just get on with it.

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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