Stephanie LH Calahan
APRIL 27, 2011
No matter if you are a one-person show or you have a business that has many employees, unless you have business processes in place, you may find the business growing "out of control." The activity of organizing and writing down key activities and when they need to get done is critical to your ability to grow your business and thrill your customers.
Virtual Moxie
APRIL 26, 2011
At first, I was going to post this graphic I made for Love Lavishly and leave it at that--thinking it teaches enough moxie all by itself with no need for comment. And then, on a call with my Ultimate VA Members, one of them shared that she has a client she loves, but whose work has become horribly boring. She went on to say that she loves the relationship (which has been strong and good for quite some time), that she didn't want to leave it, and that she doesn't know what to do.
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The Small Business Blog
APRIL 23, 2011
Looking at business of all sizes, you can’t escape thinking about how vulnerable business is at different growth phases – some sizes seem to be more stable than others. Micro businesses seem to be very stable because there is limited change from month to month, overheads are low, they are often run from home.
Eco-Office Gals
APRIL 24, 2011
Hope Everyone had a wonderful Easter filled with family, friends, tradition and peace! Love to all from our family to yours! Post from: Eco-Office Gals Happy Easter 2011.
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!
Stephanie LH Calahan
APRIL 25, 2011
This month, my son has been playing on a school (American-style) football team. This is the first time he has ever played football, other than throwing the ball around in our yard. Watching their practices and listening to the coach got me thinking about how there are a number of correlations that I could make between successful sports teams and successful businesses.
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The Small Business Blog
APRIL 27, 2011
When you look at products like WinWeb’s Online Office Suite you realize that it provides you with far more than just small business cloud computing software or Software as a Service (SaaS), it is actually a complete small business IT “Infrastructure as a Service&# (IaaS).
Eco-Office Gals
APRIL 26, 2011
The following is a guest post submission. Moving to a new home doesn’t need to be a wasteful experience. There are easy steps you can take to go green while you go home. Even though moving is generally a stressful experience, using these eco-friendly tips, at least you can rest assured knowing that the unpleasantries did not spill over onto the environment.
Stephanie LH Calahan
APRIL 29, 2011
If I did not have their stuff all over the place, I might get something done! I hear this story all of the time when I talk with professionals that are contacting me for help with productivity and organization. When you have an office, or your only office, in the home there are usually added complications. One complication is other people's stuff!
Loosely Speaking
APRIL 25, 2011
Season 2/Episode 13 Program Notes. Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the “AZVAs the Podcast&# link to listen to the episode now. iPod users can find the episode in the podcast directory at the iTunes Store. Here’s that link ! Contents of this episode: Discussion/Announcements/Tips: Tara and Katie chat about ways to find client in tourism and hospitality, whether you are a small business owner (building contractors, for example) or virtual assistant.
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The Small Business Blog
APRIL 29, 2011
Do you know why people buy your product or service? There can only be two reasons, either it makes them feel good or it helps them to solve a problem. It can be argued that some products do both, ether individually or both at the same time.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 26, 2011
After reading John Warillow’s excellent book Built to Sell , my first reaction was John picked the wrong title. It's an excellent book for entrepreneurs looking to sell their businesses, but the lessons are useful for anyone interested in building a successful company. Which is why I really like the book’s tag line: “Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You.” Built to Sell is about building successful, growing businesses that can scale beyond the ow
Ian's Messy Desk
APRIL 26, 2011
Image by JWA Commons via Flickr. We don’t all sound the same when we speak. Some of us have deep voices, while others have squeaky, or soft, or frail, some are slow, others are rapid. Some voices are easier to listen to than others. The voice you project is determined by three factors, all of which can be controlled. Energy —The energy in your voice reflects your attitude and enthusiasm.
Complete Organizing Solutions
APRIL 26, 2011
Don’t forget to check out the new BLOG ! This week we are taking a look at what a simplified life looks like and discussing how excess can paralyze us. And here is an old school approach to memory keeping I shared with my readers! Don’t miss a thing, subscribe today!
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The Small Business Blog
APRIL 27, 2011
The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Use the search engines to find similar blogs that write about the topics you will be discussing. 2. Get started building your blog.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 29, 2011
There is a growing backlash against Twitter these days. This tends to happen in the tech field when something has been as hyped as Twitter. Fortune's recent cover story - Trouble@Twitter - is an example. It spends most of its time on management discord at the company. But the article also points out that Twitter traffic has leveled off, users are spending less time on the site, and almost half of the registered users aren't active. The picture above, BTW
Andrea Kalli
APRIL 25, 2011
Submitting Your Site to Industry-Specific Web Directories. . Web directories have grown significantly less popular among internet users due to the rise of powerful search engines. Nevertheless, getting listed in such sites still prove to offer crucial benefits to online entrepreneurs and internet marketers depending on link building campaigns to support and enhance their overall internet marketing strategy.
Tips From T. Marie
APRIL 28, 2011
Over the past 18 months my WordPress website creation services, offered under my Girly Girl Geek division, have become extremely popular.When I started offering the service I offered several money saving ‘packages’ as well as more individualized sites that required a consultation, estimates and a higher price tag. One was quick, easy and inexpensive, the other was highly customized, more time consuming and could get expensive depending upon the site.
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.
The Small Business Blog
APRIL 28, 2011
According to pan-European research conducted by Vodafone, 78 % of European SMEs believe that responding faster to customer inquiries is key to win new business. Other research suggests UK SMEs adopt key technologies like cloud computing much slower than their European counterparts.
Small Business Labs
APRIL 27, 2011
I like to follow research from investment companies because they put their money (actually, other people's money) where their mouth is. Leading Sectors for Innovation from Fidelity Investments looks at innovations in health care/medical devices, media and entertainment and information technology. The medical innovation areas covered include genomics, biotech pharmaceuticals and digital health records. Interesting quote on genomics : "The cost of sequencing a human ge
Brilliantly Better
APRIL 27, 2011
Tweet For the last 14 months I’ve been learning how to become a self-published author. And by that, I mean not only PDF ebooks available on the blog, but also printed books on Amazon, Kindle versions and, of course, for the latest hype in town, ePub-based ebooks in Apple iBookStore. What follows is a (very) distilled story of my own experiences. But as distilled as it is, prepare for a few thousands words article (I suggest putting aside at least 20 minutes to read it from the top to the bottom)
The Shrink for Entrepreneurs
APRIL 25, 2011
I’ve been talking to business owners about addictions lately. My filing cabinet of client notes reveals some interesting trends amongst business luminaries and addiction is a big one. If you’re a business owner reading this blog, I’ll take a bet that you’ve struggled with an addiction. It might not have been the exciting kind of drugs (after all, we’re entrepreneurs not politicians) – maybe it’s food or my personal favorite, caffeine.
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.
The Small Business Blog
APRIL 28, 2011
The UK economy grew by 0.5% in Q1 of 2011 – apparently reducing the risk of a double-dip recession. Different sectors have grown at different speeds, the manufacturing sector is doing very well, while others are struggling to make any gains. Bank lending to the SME sector has fallen again, which makes you wonder.
BioTeams
APRIL 27, 2011
Very interesting article by Matthew Syed , a former Commonwealth table tennis champion. which suggests that experts (Unconsciously Competent) can suddenly flip under stress to "beginner mode" (Consciously Competent) with the accompanying degradation in their performance. Image: Chelsea miss penalty kick. This happens when the performer gets triggered to become hyper careful about aspects of their game which previously flowed automatically producing a totally counter-intuitive effect than intende
Small Business CEO
APRIL 26, 2011
We have all heard it said that a service by a particular business, when it exceeds your expectations, is done from the heart. I do not doubt that but it is also my belief that customer service is the heart of any business, no matter its size. If money or finance is the lifeblood of a business, we can then assume that there would not be (financial) blockage as long as the heart (customer service) is healthy and strong.
Men With Pens
APRIL 28, 2011
I had a crush on the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Looking back, the obsession may be attributed to attending Blue Angels air shows as a child. Or, perhaps a more practical reason was the cause – the jet looked really, really fast. And like any obsessed seven-year-old boy, F-16 posters hung above my bed and I’d mastered the sound of the afterburner at full blast.
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
Service Untitled
APRIL 25, 2011
Sometimes companies just need to say “no.&# Organizations can’t honor every customer request not to mention that companies do not have unlimited resources even making it possible to never have to say “no.&# Sometimes we don’t know how people are going to react, but we don’t want to lose someone’s loyalty – much less their business.
Advice From a PA
APRIL 29, 2011
I know I have not been blogging much lately. I'm still working at my current gig, but I recently got an agent, so I'm also reworking my tv pilot and I barely have time to do anything else. Sorry :) Back to regular programming. I love a good podcast, so if you or your boss is into listening to them in the car or at the gym, one of the best podcasts I have ever heard is Marc Maron's WTF Podcast.
Small Business CEO
APRIL 28, 2011
Last week, on Small Business Trends Radio , they covered an important topic that most every business owner can relate to. At some point every person has to deal with personal tragedies such as illnesses, accidents, a death in the family, etc. How we deal with those tragic times can directly affect our businesses. Tony Cole knows first hand how a personal crisis can put the brakes on any small business.
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