Sat.Mar 10, 2012 - Fri.Mar 16, 2012

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Stop procrastinating! How to Overcoming and Avoid Procrastination - 30 Tips

Stephanie LH Calahan

Procrastination is the #1 reason business owners find that their business stalls. Recently, we conducted an informal poll of the 1000 participants that signed up for Fire Up Your Biz - Enrich Your Life and found that over half of our respondents had questions around procrastination, lack of motivation and generally just not getting things done! So, I asked my expert panel: Putting off critical tasks for a later date can break a business.

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4 Basic Types of Speeches

Ian's Messy Desk

The four basic types of speeches are: to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade. These are not mutually exclusive of one another. You may have several purposes in mind when giving your presentation. For example, you may try to inform in an entertaining style. Another speaker might inform the audience and try to persuade them to act on the information.

Health 190
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The Moxie of Reinvention

Virtual Moxie

Yesterday was a big day here at AssistU , and I wanted to share the news with you. If you’ve been reading VMoxie for any length of time, you probably know that at the end of 2010, after 13 years, we stopped training VAs. Our Virtual Training Program was still super solid, but with the economy tanking, our revenue model and our delivery model no longer made sense for us in a way that would allow us to continue.

Mentoring 180
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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Work-Life Balance

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. Make sure that you are able to prioritise your workload in order to tackle it in the most efficient way possible.

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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 Far Are You Willing To Go To Get Your Brain Work Better

Productivity Bits

$99 can get you the chance of increasing your “learning rates.” But are you willing to spend that if it involves sending your brain “increased amount of electrical current”? The DIY Kit, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), as described in a BGR report , is “a safe and effective means of increasing cognitive performance.” The way I understand it is it stimulates some part of your brain which then somehow increases neuronal excitability.

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Moxie Tip 133: Are you committed?

Virtual Moxie

My friend Jessie Marianiello always thought she wanted to be a writer, and teach writing at the University level. Well on her way but not as happy as she thought she would have been, one morning she asked herself, "What do you really love?" The swift answer was, "Dogs and art.". In short order, and without a plan B, she'd quit her teaching job, and committed herself, wholeheartedly, to a new venture, Stray Dog Arts , and to doing exactly and only what she loved.

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Advantages to Creating Passive Income

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Business a little slow? You might wish you had some passive income right about now. The good news is – now you have a little extra time to create some, and it may be easier than you think. What is passive income? It is a source of profit that occurs with little or no effort on your part to maintain. An excellent source of passive income is an information product, also known as “knowledge-based goods” or “digital goods,” to be distributed online.

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The Future Of Education Is Online

Productivity Bits

How to teach kids more effectively? The school environment is the most important portion of that. There is no doubt about it. There is an urgency that school children need to learn more math and science. That is specially true here in the US. What if the parents can utilize a cool tool to augment their kids’ learning? What if the hardest part of this tool is convincing kids to sit down and watch videos (I guess, that is not hard at all)?

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LAST DAY Today for the Superlicious Leap Day VA Giveaway

Office Organization Success

Unfortunately today is the last day for this Massive Giveaway Event. If you have not already taken advantage of it, do it now. Don’t hold it for another day. It will not be there tomorrow: [link]. Just to recap: A whole bunch of top VAs, OBMs, trainers, coaches, and others have teamed up to give you TONS of Products at no cost to you: training. e-books.

Training 141
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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 134: Looking Back to Look Ahead

Virtual Moxie

Sometimes, the best way to think about the future is in the context of the recent past. Consider creating a wordle --either from your business blog, or maybe your web site. .

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How Your Gaming Habit Could Earn You a Big Payday

On The Job

Recently I've noticed there are a lot fewer screaming kids while I'm running my weekend errands, and I think I've figured out why: All the kids are plugged in. Even kids who can barely walk are holding mommy's cellphone or daddy's iPad. They're playing games, intently drooling over whatever is on the screen. While some may "tsk, tsk" at plugging kids in so early (and so often), this story I did for Gannett/USAToday at least shows that maybe the reason little Billy is fooling with an iPhone at 4-

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Womply - A Deal Site Focused on Loyalty

Small Business Labs

One of our Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2012 is Loyalty Meets Daily Deals, which we describe as: We think 2012 will see daily deals morph beyond shotgun-style attempts to bring in new business to more targeted methods and systems designed to attract, retain and reward loyal customers. The startup Womply is an example of this shift.  The company’s Loyalty Cloud product provides a simple way for merchants to reward loyal customer.  It's very straight forward: Merchants decide o

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Eco-Options: Shaklee

Eco-Office Gals

I’ve had the opportunity to try several Shaklee products in the past. I’ve enjoyed cleaning with Basic H , a super concentrated cleaner which can be made into all-purpose, glass or degreaser based on the number of drops you add to good old water. I love their laundry line as well. About Shaklee: Our mission at Shaklee is to provide a healthier life for everyone and a better life for anyone.

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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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The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business – Comment and Part 1

The Small Business Blog

About a month ago I read the following post: The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business on the MarketingProfs site.

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Why Men Don't Take Women Seriously at Work

On The Job

Are you one of those women who carries a handbag big enough to hold all your essentials? Like lip balm, a change of shoes, a first responder medical kit, a small sewing machine and a hair straightening iron? If so, you’re obviously prepared for any event that may arise while you’re at work, rather it’s frizzy hair or a small dagger wound. But you’re also sending a very strong signal to others in your office that you’re not someone to be taken seriously.

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What is the Post-PC Era?

Small Business Labs

During Apple's recent iPad announcement CEO Tim Cook made several references to the "post-PC era" This led to a flurry of articles on the topic. At the simplest level, the post-PC era refers to the growth of computing devices that are not traditional PCs.  More specifically, the current use of the term refers to the growth of smartphones and tablets.      The term and concepts date back at least to the late 1990s when discussions of computer and Internet

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Moxie Tip 136: Creative Solutions

Virtual Moxie

Happy clients can keep your practice full. And one path to keeping them happy is to create custom solutions to every challenge or opportunity. Think to yourself, "What solution would be the best for my client given everything I know about who and how she is in the world?" Then suggest that. Don't simply feed the client a gob of stuff you've heard about or blindly recommend what a colleague shares with you.

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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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Improve Your Life with Time Management

Ian's Messy Desk

Time management is fundamentally about focus. The Pareto Principle states, 80% of effort not managed or focused generates 20% of the desired output. On the other hand, 80% of desired output can be generated by 20% of effective effort. You see how much is lost or gained with well-managed time. Time management involves scheduling appointments, goal settings, planning, to do lists and prioritizing; core skills that need to be understood to develop efficient personal productivity.

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Create Simple Systems

Office Organization Success

A system simply describes HOW you do something i.e.: How do you create a new client file? How do you handle client enquiries? How do you monitor receipts/expenses? How do you track contact data? How do you stay in touch with your clients/prospects? If you want to manage your business more efficiently & effectively, change your thinking around running your business – think in systems/steps/processes.

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Gatekeeping: what does it actually mean?

Practically Perfect PA

According to Wikipedia the word ‘gatekeeper’ is a person that controls access to something or more recently an individual who decides whether a given message will be distributed to a wider audience. The term ‘gatekeeper’ is used in association with PAs/ EAs frequently, you will see it in job applications, CVs, articles relating to the industry and everything in between, but what does it actually mean to us?

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Moxie Tip 135: Good Standards

Virtual Moxie

Business OWNERS make the rules/standards for their businesses because they're good for the businesses they own. As a business owner, it’s critical to step up when someone tries to remove your right call your own shots in your biz.

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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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Optimize Your Time on Social Media: Avoid the Social Media Time Suck

Stephanie LH Calahan

Ashley Zeckman wrote a great post about how to effectively use your time on social media.  In it, she covers: Avoiding Shiny Object Pitfalls. Tips for an Optimized Focus. Tools for Optimizing Your Time. Curation Tools – good for quickly gathering. It looks long, but takes about 2.5 minutes to read and is filled with geat actionable steps.  Here is the link:  [link].

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Study Shows Proximity-Based Coupons Work

Small Business Labs

Knowledge@Wharton's Mobile Marketing - Location Matters - But How Much?  covers a study done in Germany on the effectiveness of delivering customized coupons to users, based entirely on their location. The quick summary is location-based coupons proved proved to be very effective.  Key quote: The data showed that when marketers caught their audiences at the right place and at the right time with the right coupon, they were able to directly influence consumer behavior, incre

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Personal Objectives for Life Balance

Ian's Messy Desk

More than ever before, we play many roles in our lives. We are workers, parents, spouses, friends, caregivers and volunteers in their communities. We also try and make room in our lives for taking care of our own well-being. Not surprisingly, achieving balance among all these competing priorities can be difficult. Here in Canada 58% of people report overload associated with their many roles.

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Decisions, Decisions.

Laughing all the Way to Work

As an admin it is sometimes hard to know when you should go ahead and make a decision and when you need to wait for your boss. Recently, on an admin site, someone suggested setting out every scenario she could think of and ranking whether it needs the boss's approval or not. Although I understand why she would want that, I thought an easier way would be to break it down as follows: Will it embarrass the company?

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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