Sat.Sep 15, 2012 - Fri.Sep 21, 2012

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Exciting new partnership for WinWeb

The Small Business Blog

My company WinWeb has struck a new partnership with Xenca, the fast growing providers of wellbeing products. They have chosen us as their cloud partner for the new Xenca CloudApp which is available now for all 600 of their members to access for free!

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5 Strategies to Become Highly Successful and Get More Done

Office Organization Success

Business owner’s To Do lists are endless … I mean there is so much to do all the time that it feels like a never-ending cycle of To Do lists! And they can spend all day being “busy” but at the end of the day never feel like they’ve accomplished anything…. … they still don’t have a full practice of ideal clients. … their marketing systems are hit-or-miss. … they do not have consistent cash flow.

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Why Everyone Wants Small Businesses as Customers

Small Business Labs

One of the most interesting shifts we've seen since we started researching small businesses is the change in view of small businesses as a target market. A decade ago relatively few firms - large or small - considered small businesses a key target market. Today, lots of firms do.   This fact was highlighted in a letter sent to the management team of Office Depot by the Hedge Fund Starboard.  They recently bought 13% of Office Depot's stock and are pushing the company to restr

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Moxie Tip 244: What's Your Destination?

Virtual Moxie

Focus on what you want, and what you hope for. Walk toward that. Keep your eyes on that. Make every action about that. And trust that which matters—which will never be your fears.

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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 To Help Your Team Come Up with Brilliant Ideas

On The Job

If someone looked you in the eye and said, “You have 10 minutes to come up with the most creative, most breakthrough idea this industry has ever seen” you might be tempted to laugh in that person’s face. After all, you’re lucky to remember to feed the dog after the long days you put in at work, let alone the hours you log at home. Come up with a breakthrough, brilliant idea?

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Smartphone Usage Booms, Young Adults Lead

Small Business Labs

According to Nielsen : "U.S. Smartphone penetration continued to grow in July 2012, with 55.5 percent of mobile subscribers in the U.S. now owning smartphones.This is a significant increase compared to July 2011 when only 41 percent of mobile subscribers owned smartphones." Not much of a surprise, but it's always good to have the numbers.   Young adults are leading the way in Smartphone ownership with 74 percent of 25-34 year olds now owning smartphones, up from 59 percen

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What the Mob Has Done to the Virtual Assistance Profession

Virtual Moxie

A private coaching client recently shared that she’d been asked by a prospect, “How will you promote my new book?”. My client wondered what I would have said had I been in her shoes. My response? “I’d say, ‘I’ll help you find the best publicist available.’”. Now, I know that’s not what the client would have wanted to hear. The client would have wanted to hear all the fabulous publicity ideas I had for her that would skyrocket her sales, her platform, and send her off to best-seller land.

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New Venture: Mobile Responsive Designs

Eco-Office Gals

I’m happy to announce a new project. It’s still in the works, but it’s live so what better time to let you know it’s out there? Mobile Responsive Designs is a joint effort between myself and Applied InfoSystems to bring you our WordPress custom theme designs on the new line of mobile responsive themes from StudioPress. Mobile Responsive themes “morph” to fit the screen you are viewing them on, no more pinching and squinting on your smart-phone to read your fav

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Top 5 Tips for Choosing Small Business Viral Marketing

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. Viral marketing is perfect for any small business without a large marketing budget to spend on advertising. So, in all likelihood, this will include YOUR small business!

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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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Quiz: Are You a Workaholic?

Eat Your Career

It can be difficult to achieve the perfect work/life balance. In fact, there may not even be a “perfect” balancing point. The general idea is to have both a satisfying career and a fulfilling personal life. But sadly, many of us get so caught up in our careers that we let our personal lives suffer. While we’re struggling to make a name for ourselves, get that big promotion or just remain a part of the team, our family and friends feel neglected and our personal commitments get ignored.

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Moxie Tip 243: Are You Profitable?

Virtual Moxie

There simply is no other choice than to cover your indirect business expenses with your fee. Doing anything else leaves you unprofitable, and being unprofitable means you'll be out of business. If you're finding that you can't "afford" trainings and other opportunities, look first toward your profit--I'll bet it's non-existent.

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Daily Deals Not Dead Yet

Small Business Labs

Whenever I talk to someone about the daily deals business I'm reminded of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie scene where an undertaker is dragging off a man who says "I'm not quite dead yet."   For those not familar with this movie, rent it. Or go see the stage version, Spamalot. Both are quite funny.   But I digress.

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Are You Worried You're Not Unique at Work?

On The Job

I remember in junior high all the girls dressed the same. Blue jeans, boots, white belts, flannel shirts and pea coats. I would rather have jumped into a trash compactor than not look like everyone else. But as I got older, of course, I wanted my own style. I wanted to stand out. That's what happens to many people in the workplace, it appears. A new study looks at how we all feel threatened when we don't feel we're "special" enough.

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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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Focus, Share and Package Your Passion with Ease

Stephanie LH Calahan

Do you have many different interests?  Are you a multi-passionate entrepreneur?  I am! Multi-passionate business owners often have many ideas percolating in their heads.  Often, we have so many that it’s hard to get focused. In some cases we can even forget about getting clients and creating programs because we are stuck looking at the day's bright shiny object or interest!

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Moxie Tip 245: The Simple Truth

Virtual Moxie

Have the moxie to tell the truth. The reality of what you offer is so awesome that you don’t have to “spin” it in order to make it appear more attractive. AND , you do the client no favor by presenting anything other than the completely real and true picture of what’s going on in every context.

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How to Navigate a Career Change

Eat Your Career

Looking to move onward and upward? Yes, it’s possible– even in THIS economy ! Check out my most recent segment from Fox 31′s Good Morning Colorado below where I share 4 tips that will make the process of changing careers much easier to manage. Remember, it can be stressful and overwhelming, but it can also be very worthwhile. If you’re ready to start the process, consider working one-on-one with a career coach.

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Are you jumping steps in the relationship cycle?

The Small Business Blog

Recently I read a read an article from Forrester called: “B2B Marketers Have A Blind Spot: The Buyer Journey”.

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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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Stay Focused Tip #3: Hit the Unsubscribe Key

Office Organization Success

Unsubscribe from ezines that no longer serve you – and, yes, I realize I may be shooting myself in the foot when I say this to you. But having fewer emails landing in your inbox will really make a difference to your inbox overwhelm and will allow you to focus only on those mentors/teachers that serve you best.

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Moxie Tip 242: What's Right For YOU?

Virtual Moxie

Wherever you are in your practice and your life, please be sure that what you're doing is what's right for you. Make sure that the direction you're moving in is one that lights you up inside. Make sure that you're courageous enough to become and share who you really are in life and in work.

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Passion and Purpose – Keys to Finding (or Not Finding) Your Niche

Step It Up VA Coaching

You are a talented individual, and through your past positions you may have acquired a pretty big proverbial hat collection with all of the different ones you’ve had to wear. So when you’re developing your business, don’t be too hasty in picking one and throwing the rest out. It’s important to identify which hat is the most comfortable; which one you like wearing the most, and which one makes you shine every time you put it on.

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New Venture: Mobile Responsive Designs

Eco-Office Gals

I’m happy to announce a new project. It’s still in the works, but it’s live so what better time to let you know it’s out there? Mobile Responsive Designs is a joint effort between myself and Applied InfoSystems to bring you our WordPress custom theme designs on the new line of mobile responsive themes from StudioPress. Mobile Responsive themes “morph” to fit the screen you are viewing them on, no more pinching and squinting on your smart-phone to read your fav

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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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Want To Create An Online Marketing System?

Office Organization Success

You’re told EVERY DAY that you need to implement the latest hot marketing strategy and it will add thousands of new subscribers to your list! But the truth is…. You just need a system! You don’t need to implement every new marketing strategy that you hear about … you just need to implement the RIGHT strategies for you and your business. And not only do you need to implement the right strategies, but you also need to have the RIGHT systems to support those strategies.

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Time Management, Setting Priorities and All That Jazz!

Office Dynamics

Dear Monday Motivators, I am really writing you on a Monday morning! I normally write Monday Motivators the Friday or weekend before but I find that writing this weekly perk-you-up is getting farther behind. It isn’t because it is not on my mind or because I don’t care about you. It is because my To Do list is getting bigger and bigger; I am managing more people than ever before; more people need my time and attention; and I have a BIG event that I am launching October 1!

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Sick of Hearing About Productivity? You Should Be

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

We’re all sick of it. Despite this, I still tend to rant about productivity. It’s not just because I’ve wrestled with the beast. I rant because entrepreneurs are ignoring productivity, at their peril. And I don’t mean they’re ignoring information about it, I mean that they’re ignoring looking at their own productivity levels.

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Keeping Cloud Computing Costs in Check

Small Business CEO

The cloud is a boon for companies with small budgets and small (or no) IT staff. It is seen as a way to keep costs in check. But as so often happens with budgets, there are expenditures that you plan for, and then there are the costs that seem to appear out of nowhere. The cloud, of course, is not immune to cost overruns. According to Carl Fransen with CTECH in Calgary, Alberta, cloud-related costs seem to be nice at the start but can add up after a while.

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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