Sat.Apr 28, 2012 - Fri.May 04, 2012

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5-Step Checklist for Sending Out Email Broadcasts

Office Organization Success

Being consistent in your business is one of the critical factors for ensuring long-term growth, and one of the ways to ensure consistency is to create systems. Everything you do in your business, from responding to emails to working with clients, needs to be systemized and documented, so that it’s very easy to create a repeatable process in your business.

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Asking the Right Question Could Be a Career-Booster

On The Job

I was recently with family who had several young children. It was fascinating to watch how curious they were about everything. It seems every sentence started with "why" or "how." Even though it drove their parents a bit nutty, I really wish we could hang on to more of our curiosity and a need to learn and understand. Here's a story I did for Gannett/USAToday on why you may want to tap into that inner 5-year-old at work.

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Can YOU Control the Interview?

Job Advice Blog

Think what the interview is all about. Sorry, but it’s not about you. It’s about the interviewer’s perception regarding your fit into the organization’s culture combined with your ability to perform the job very well. No interviewer is looking for Mr. Average. So, what does the word perception include here? Primarily two issues: the image [.].

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Top 5 Tips for the New Tax Year

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. If you found the tax deadline to be very stressful, it is likely that you are doing something wrong throughout the year.

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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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"No" is Never About You!

Virtual Moxie

When there’s a wished-for client or a client you work with that you've put time and energy into, hearing that s/he's decided to go in a different direction is disappointing. Disappointment is a completely understandable response to the situation, too. ?. What’s not reasonable or smart is to think that a client saying no to working with you is saying something’s wrong with you.

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Will Tablets Become Our Primary Computing Device?

Small Business Labs

Forrester just released a report called Tablets Will Rule the Future Personal Computing Landscape.  In it they forecast that tablets will become the primary computing device for most users  within the next four years.  From a forecasting standpoint that's a pretty bold statement - especially given the short time frame of only 4 years.   In terms of numbers, Forrester is saying 375 million tablets will be sold globally in 2016.  This is almost twice t

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Are you and your customers using the same language to find each other?

The Small Business Blog

Have you tried to find yourself lately? Now, that’s not meant to be soul-searching philosophical question. What I mean by the question is, have you considered what your customers are really looking for recently? How would they describe what they are looking for?

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Moxie Tip 163: Leopards' Spots

Virtual Moxie

Don't think that someone who behaves badly to you shortly after meeting will behave differently if given a place in your practice. As the saying goes, leopards don't change their spots.

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Do you have a process for working with new clients?

Office Organization Success

Having a clear client intake system in place makes it really easy to bring new clients on board. So, next time you’re having a conversation with a potential client (whether that’s in-person, over the phone, or via email) and they express an interest in working with you, you can say, “Great! The next step is to …” and tell them what happens next.

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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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Book Review: Small Town Rules

Small Business Labs

Small Town Rules - How Big Brands and Small Businesses Can Prosper in a Connected Community argues that a combination of social, economic, demographic and technology shifts have resulted in business in general looking more and more like business in a small town. The authors are two highly respected small business experts, Becky McCrae and Barry Moltz.   Becky is the author of Small Biz Survival , a well known blog on rural and small town business and Barry is an author, speaker and consult

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Life in the little league

The Small Business Blog

At 5 feet 3 inches, or 1.60 metres if you work in metric, I should be used to feeling small so why then over the last 20 plus years of running my own businesses have I often felt like an inhabitant of Lilliput Land that has just seen Gulliver walk around the corner?

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Moxie Tip 162: Slow Waaaaaay Down

Virtual Moxie

Slow waaaaaaaaay down in your interview process. Why? Because one of the worst things you can have happen in your practice is to leap into a new relationship with a client, only to realize in fairly short order that you made a huge mistake and need to get out of the relationship. That is, in all respects, the business version of the quickie Vegas wedding (a la Britney Spears—who needed an annulment just a bit more than two days after her wedding in 2004!).

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How To Deal With Negativity at Work

On The Job

Sometimes there is nothing more irritating than those trite phrases like “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” When you’re having a tough time in life, your first inclination may be to tell those full of such homespun logic to go suck a lemon. Those people don’t have to deal with an ogre boss or a long commute, you think, so they don’t know that it’s difficult to just be so darn positive all the time.

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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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How My New Blog Earned A Page Rank of 3 In One Month

Productivity Bits

I know Google Page Rank is no longer a true barometer of how your blog is “performing” in the blogsphere. Google have said themselves that we should not use Page Rank to measure our blog’s performance. Very true. There is nothing else I can use to check metrics aside from hits and pageviews. Nonetheless, I look at Page Rank as a way to check how my SEO efforts are affecting my blog technically.

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Tips to bring business success

The Small Business Blog

Running a business, given its share of rewards and risks, could be a very daunting challenge. It is commonly thought that running a successful business requires large amounts of capital, hundreds of employees, to name a few – this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case.

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Think you don’t have time to market? Think again!

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. We’ve all done it – putting our marketing and business building tasks on the back burner, because we think we don’t have the time to get it done. We may even feel as though in order to market, we need to take time away from our client work. But, if we don’t invest time back into our businesses, how will they grow?

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Surviving the open plan office

Practically Perfect PA

Pin It. Over the years most of my roles have been based in large open plan offices where I sit in amongst dozens of other colleagues, all working away at a common cause… well presumably! As an Executive Assistant I’ve always found it tricky working in an open plan environment for a number of reasons but mainly because of the amount of time I have to spend hiding the confidential documents I am working with while being interrupted yet again by a colleague asking for something!

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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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Moxie Tip 164: Who Does the Client Need to Be?

Virtual Moxie

If you go in to an interview thinking you need to impress, you’re probably not doing that, and you’re probably not ending up with the greatest clients. Instead, let’s turn interviewing upside down; think instead: “Who does this person have to be to earn a place in MY practice?” It’ll change the way you interview.

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Are you up for an adventure?

The Small Business Blog

This is the ongoing tale of one tiny business – Mother’s Garden – and our journey, the lessons and never-ending learning, the pain and the glee.

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Migration from Mexico Stalls

Small Business Labs

According to a study from Pew Research , between 2005 and 2010 more people moved from the U.S. to Mexico than the other way around.  The chart below is from Pew.       This reverses a long term trend of large numbers of legal and undocumented Mexicans moving to the U.S. In fact, 30% of all immigrants currently living in the U.S. are from Mexico.

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Create and Launch Your First Info Product in 30 Days … Registration Open

Office Organization Success

I’ve had many clients take on the challenge of creating their first info product in 30 days, and they’re always surprised at how simple it is. It really is possible to add a new income stream to your business in just one month — and you can do it really inexpensively too! If you’re ready to add a new income stream to your business — or even if you’re just thinking about it — then I’d like to invite you to my upcoming, live virtual workshop, where I’ll share al

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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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Trust

Office Dynamics

Dear Monday Motivator, The following is a short excerpt from the book, Who Took My Pen. Again? on Trust. Being Trustworthy. Being trustworthy is about how you conduct yourself. It goes without saying that you should always default to being trustworthy from the get-go; exhibiting trustworthiness in how you handle. yourself. confidential information. corporate resources. your time. your tasks and assignments.

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Moxie Tip 161: Have an Interview Process

Virtual Moxie

Have a very specific interview/consultation process that you use with potential new clients.

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Online Dating Goes to the Dogs

Small Business Labs

We love pet trends here at Small Business Labs.  PSFK has a good post on the rise of online doggie dating sites.   They cover two sites that have recently gone into beta.   Match Puppy is available in New York City and according to the article it allows dog owners to: " arrange playdates, find matches for breeding or just meet up with other dog owners.

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These are the kind of weeks I enjoy

Office Organization Success

This week has been the kind of week where I really love running my own business; it’s been so varied in workload that I’ve really enjoyed the week. Just a quick snapshot of what I’ve been working on: — Creating a new program portal using Infusionsoft and InfusionWP plugin. I love learning new systems and setting things up. Add to the challenge of Infusionsoft’s major software upgrade and it’s been quite an interesting week. — Working on installing and setting up two

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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