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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

One question I get a lot is around the topic of professional certifications. People want to know if they’re worth it. After all, professional certifications cost hundreds—if not thousands—of dollars. And most require a significant investment of time and energy on top of it. So, do professional certifications actually have a measurable career payoff?

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Can a PA help their employer be more enterprising?

Practically Perfect PA

Can a PA help their employer be more enterprising? Today’s organisations require their employees to be more enterprising, more aware of the needs of customers and more involved in developing their products and services. It is harder than ever to differentiate as a business, keep customers returning and increase profits. By having every member of staff thinking in an enterprising way and being more commercially minded it is possible to stand out above the competition.

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Managing Your Time (Part 1 of a 4 Part Series)

Office Dynamics

I have been in the business world for 47 years now and one thing that never changes is managing our workload and setting priorities. Everyone I talk to is trying to keep up with the accelerated pace of business and change. At Office Dynamics, we always seem to be in a flurry of activity throughout the year but certain seasons are busier than others.

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How to Answer "Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?"

On The Job

Job interviews can be stressful, but as I've said before, the more you prepare for them, the more stress you can eliminate. Part of that preparation is understanding there are going to be standard interview questions and even a few weird ones. It also means that the hiring manager is trying to get a "feel" for you. Are you a slacker? A whiner? Ambitious?

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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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Cyclical and Structural Forces Behind the Growing Independent Workforce

Small Business Labs

MBO Partners released their 2017 State of Independence report today. In 2017, the total number of independent workers (self-employed, freelancers, independent contractors, etc.) in American rose to 40.9 million, up 2.8 percent from 2016. And MBO Partners is forecasting the independent workforce will continue to grow over the next 5 years, reaching 47.6 million in 2022.

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MSP Managed Services Provider Explainer Video – DEMO

Andrea Kalli

Worked long and hard creating this MSP Managed Services Provider Explainer Video DEMO. If you want to see more, check out my showcase videos: [link]. Technology Marketing Videos for your IT Support and Services or MSP Business. Andrea Kalli – expert in providing industry leading videos for: – IT Services Provider explainer videos. – MSP or Managed Services Provider explainer videos. – IT Services Provider marketing videos. – MSP or Managed Services Provider marketin

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Podcast 060: Managing passwords

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! It’s about creating good passwords, keeping them safe and, of course, being able to remember and find them! Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. This podcast is based on my book, 52 Simple Ways to Get Organized, available on my website.

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Mapping Key Emerging Technologies

Small Business Labs

Maps are a popular way of displaying emerging technologies and how important they are and/or how quickly they will impact business and society. Almost all technology analyst firms produce maps. They do this to try to display complex information in a simple, digestible form. Traction Technology Partners , a firm that tracks and analyzes emerging technologies for enterprise clients, has created an interesting tech trends map (click to enlarge).

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Really Easy Ways to Save Your Small Business Money

On The Job

Of all the challenges small businesses face, holding the line on costs while trying to expand or with a slow economy may be one of the toughest. When sales slow or expansion eats into your profits, don't panic – consider these 10 easy ways to cut costs instead. 1. Get free press Can you recommend the latest fashions that are affordable on any budget?

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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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IT and MSP Managed Services Provider – Driving Technology marketing video

Andrea Kalli

My latest IT & MSP Managed Services Provider technology marketing video with a futuristic automotive theme. Is your technology driving you? Or are you driving your technology? The messaging focuses on business owners struggling with their technology and maintaining network security updates and management. Call-to-action is offering a free network assessment and diagnostic.

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8 productivity traps to avoid

Clutter Coach

by What is productivity, really? It’s not just clearing off your desk or ploughing through your email inbox. Stop, take a breath and make sure you’re getting the important stuff done. Obviously, productivity involves producing. Producing widgets, events, reports, sales. The more producing you do, the more money you have and the greater success your company has.

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Tips For Boosting Employee Morale

Small Business CEO

Being a business owner comes with many responsibilities, which is far too many to mention them all. Keeping all your employees motivated will be an ongoing task that will require the assistance of your entire team of supervisors. If your workers are not motivated, they will not be as productive as they could be, if it were the other way around. Every worker has a mind of his or her own, so you will need to start by making sure everyone is one the same page.

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3 Places You Can Look At To Make Forward Progress Faster (and Better)

Productivityist

The City of Victoria recently added a dedicated bike lane on one of its streets. I’m not talking about a simple dividing line, either. They put in medians to separate the lane from motor vehicle traffic and several other features to make these new lanes (and altered infrastructure) as noticeable as possible. I hadn’t driven this route since the construction began, so all I got to see was the “before and after.

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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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IT Service Provider Animation Explainer Video – Demo clip

Andrea Kalli

This is a partial example of another IT Service Provider Animation Explainer Video Demo, with animated characters. Full video still in the works. Ideal for technology marketing and videos for tech businesses. Technology Marketing Videos for your IT Support and Services or MSP Business. Andrea Kalli – expert in providing industry leading videos for: – IT Services Provider explainer videos. – MSP or Managed Services Provider explainer videos. – IT Services Provider marketin

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Instant Team: Game-Based Learning for Accelerated Team Development

BioTeams

Sadly, you cannot create a High-Performing Team in a day or afternoon or even over lunch. However, if you are put in the position where you, as a leader, simply must get the very best out of a group of your colleagues in very short timescales you can fast-track them towards more effective team-working using 3 simple ingredients: 1. Mechanisms such as competitive business simulation games or other short team challenges. 2.

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Par Chadha Interview on Serial Entrepreneurship

Small Business CEO

Par Chadha is an electrical engineer with a long history of creating innovative companies in the technology arena as well as building bundled industry solutions through M&A of leading platforms. Chadha founded Osicom Technologies with his wife in 1981 and drove innovation through the development of numerous Patents: Patent 5343324 – Bias control and method for electro-optic modulators; Patent 6151336 – Time division multiplexing expansion subsystem; and Patent 6400478 – A wavelength divisio

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Tackling Transition with Shawn Razek

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by engineer by day, aspiring productivity hacker, and co-founder of to-do list app Vista List, Shawn Razek. Here’s the crux of Shawn’s mission: “Time is something we are all trying to make the most of and I want to do my part to help others accomplish that through coaching and creating great tools.” . Some of the takeaways from our conversation include: The transition from high school to college (and then to the workforce) is often a big change.

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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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Do You Know Your Company’s Elevator Pitch

Audacious Admin

I’ve recently returned from Rome where I attended the Vonlanthen Global EA Summit. Going through my notes from the conference, one thing in particular sticks out. Know your company’s elevator pitch, as well as your own This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot. I recently attended an EA event that a co-worker also attended. I heard one of the other attendees ask them what our company does.

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DDoS Damage: Why Ecommerce Sites Are So Vulnerable, And What Can Be Done

Small Business CEO

When it comes to the bad things in life there are degrees of awfulness. For instance, falling down a flight of stairs is bad. Falling down a flight of stairs in front of an important potential business partner who does not seem interested in signing on the dotted line just because someone is pitifully holding an ice pack to his or her face is worse.

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The Importance of Persistence in Business

Small Business CEO

The phrase ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going’ is particularly appropriate in the business world. Persistence, and the willingness to overcome a wide range of obstacles, usually determines the fate of a company. Below are some of the main reasons why persistence is the most important characteristic every business professional should have.

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Writer’s Guide to Establishing Trust on SMB Service Pages

Small Business CEO

Small service-based businesses must have service pages that not only promote their services but are also optimized for local keywords. If you want to come up for local keywords, it’s important to write service pages that convert and will continue to be evergreen. A few methods, and there are a lot , to increase your conversion rates while also properly optimizing your page for local keywords are: 1.

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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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How To Discover Real ROI Using Workplace Analytics

Small Business CEO

Return on investment is at the forefront of every business leader’s mind when it comes to marketing initiatives and customer experience. Why? Because these things are important to attracting and retaining customers and increasing their business’s bottom line. But while spending ample time in these areas is both necessary and important, external metrics aren’t all you should be worried about.

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Why Millennials Need to Think About Buying Gold

Small Business CEO

If you are a millennial, you are probably still trying to launch a career, secure a job position, and perhaps make enough money to get married and settle down. Things like gold are probably the farthest from your mind, unless you are an investor or a trust fund owner. If you are, or ever have, thought about buying gold, then great. That means you are on your way to securing your future finances.

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5 Ways Every SMB Could Use Digital Marketing to Increase Profits

Small Business CEO

If someone offered you a machine that could give you one hundred new leads every week would you be interested? Forget a Ferrari, that machine would be your dream come true. The machine is called Digital Marketing. It does require some input in the form of your time and effort, but most of that can be delegated to an employee once you have systems set up.

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The Why, How and The Painstaking Steps Taken to Achieve The Dream of Being Your Own Boss

Small Business CEO

Ten years ago I was working a full time job, I had a decent salary and a seemingly steady life. I was working 8-9 hours everyday (plus overtime too many times a week),and coming home after work and simply laying in front of the TV became my purpose in life. I worked just like everybody else around me, I had to pay my bills, I had to let go of all the dreams I had as a young adult and embrace reality.

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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