Small Business Labs

AUGUST 30, 2011

For the 10th year in a row, CRM Magazine has released their annual list of the top customer relationship management (CRM) software vendors and products.    Key quote on SugarCRM: "Extending its winning streak to four years, SugarCRM swept 2011’s open-source category, scoring the highest marks in almost every metric. . 

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Success

MARCH 23, 2023

Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner, says, “ We invest in the very best founders who identify as women, people of color or LGBT in the United States. They don’t get the same amount of money that other startups get, so they have to come up with other strategies to be successful.” I personally identify as all three.”

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Work With Stephanie « 106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World | Main | Make Your Resolutions/Goals from a Customer/Client Perspective & Grow Your Business Next Year (The 3 Ss) » Start 2011 off Organized! Here are a few simple suggestions for starting 2011 out the organized way!

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 5, 2022

If so, then you know how hectic project management can be at times, especially if you don’t have a centralized platform to keep track of your tasks. Before you know it, you’ll have 15 email threads to keep up with, as well as loads of time-tracking spreadsheets for each team member. Trello Power-Ups. What is Trello?

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Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 25, 2011

It may seem unnatural to manage up in the top down world of business but this is exactly what you must do to be successful in business. Here are 10 tips for managing those relationships above you. Decode your boss’s management style -I’ve yet to see a situation where a boss molds his style to that of his employees.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

All the hedge fund managers in Greenwich, Connecticut, probably didn’t pay for their Ferraris by being nice to people. We felt we had a good value proposition… Things began picking up pretty well, and it turned out that what we thought was missing from the marketplace really was missing.”. Nice people don’t always finish first.

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MARCH 8, 2023

And the pool of millennial small-business owners is growing—just last year, they made up only 7% of the survey sample. She started her first company, PandoMedia, an investigative journalism site covering the technology industry, in 2011 when she was on maternity leave from her job as senior editor at TechCrunch.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

You can’t always control the flow of the big questions, but you can manage the small ones. president-elect of the International Positive Psychology Association told The New York Times in 2011. They just showed up when the judges had decision fatigue and therefore making the lowest-maintenance calls. Will I be too hot?

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Cloud-based project management software has revolutionized how companies manage their workflows, time-tracking, and communications for years now. That is unless you’ve yet to upgrade to a project management app, in which case you’re still stuck with the hassles of managing projects across multiple locations.

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Success

APRIL 8, 2024

That keeping up with the Joneses can lead to expenses surpassing income—and the debt that comes with it. Mahoney says managing lifestyle creep and navigating inflation is a matter of putting your money where your values lie. in 2011 to 27.3 However, it’s not just lifestyle creep that’s causing this growing debt. Mahoney asks.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 3, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Judi is the community manager of the task management application Producteev.com. She is an active member of several community management groups and passionate about inspiring others to become contributors – whether in the Producteev community or elsewhere. Guest Post. – Marlon.

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Success

JULY 7, 2023

When GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons was flunking out of high school in Baltimore in the late 1960s, no one guessed that he’d end up a tech billionaire. In describing his journey from East Baltimore, Parsons says his neighborhood was a little rough: “If you got your car jacked, it would probably end up there.” Never give up.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The restaurant features tall sweeping glass “flames” that reach up to the tall ceiling at its entrance. She also described, “MBO” or management by objective, a concept developed by Peter Drucker. We must coach our managers by defining their MBO, and link priorities to the big picture. The décor is smashing! Consult others.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

According to Christensen : Disruptive innovation describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors. The Christensen Institute adds that a disruptive innovation.

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. To get rid of this phone call mayhem, we came up with Call Reminder Notes an app that allows you to assign Reminder Notes to Phone Contacts, showing Reminder Notes during call with that Contact. Effective time management. Post-its pop-up on your phone’s screen instead of your desk.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 4, 2011

At one point early on, they had a fear of walking the three steps up to the stage, but they moved past their fears by thinking, “we knew it could change the organization.”. On the way to introducing Star via “NATS” at Novant, there were several challenges to growth and success. The first challenge was their deep emotions, such as “No!

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Eat Your Career

JULY 5, 2011

Because I can give you the tools to be more efficient and, ultimately, it will FEEL like several extra hours have been added to your day—hours that don’t have to be spent catching up on work, racing from one task to the next, or worrying about how to get it all done. Date : Thursday, July 14, 2011. Time : 2:00 pm EST / 11:00 am PST.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 31, 2018

  Back in 2011 when we first starting asking about this in surveys, we assumed the vast majority of independent workers would view self-employment as being less secure than having a traditional job.  This is up from 41% in 2012. The data is trending up for several reasons.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 13, 2011

There are four main problems in project management. The third problem in project management is when the project team ends up rushing at the end. The fourth problem in project management is trying to do several things at once, and you ending up doing nothing well. © 2011 Brian Tracy, author of Full Engagement!:

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Productivity Bits

APRIL 14, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Ulrich is the creator of Organisemee – a web-based collaborative task management application. His 16 years of experience managing medium and large-scale business processes and IT projects have taught him a lot about achieving high levels of productivity. Visit the original article at [link].

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 19, 2010

It doesn’t take a brain scientist to see that more and more firms are counting on employees and middle management to handle their own calls, prepare their own documents and make their own travel arrangements. Facilities /Office management: A great example of this is to learn about the company phone system.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Guest Author. If you are willing to use Feng Shui to set yourself up for success, you can certainly do that. Smaller items can be easier because they don’t break up the flow as much. Still, cluttering up your house isn’t a very good idea. Visit the original article at [link].

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 19, 2010

It doesn’t take a brain scientist to see that more and more firms are counting on employees and middle management to handle their own calls, prepare their own documents and make their own travel arrangements. Facilities /Office management: A great example of this is to learn about the company phone system.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 13, 2011

However, if you are setting up this rule for receiving emails from a particular person, then choose ‘From people or distribution list’ Now you have to enter specific words. 2011 (c) Tracey Lawton. Related article: 5 Top Tips for Managing Your Emails. This will make them much easier and quicker to sift through.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 13, 2011

However, if you are setting up this rule for receiving emails from a particular person, then choose ‘From people or distribution list’ Now you have to enter specific words. 2011 (c) Tracey Lawton. Related article: 5 Top Tips for Managing Your Emails. This will make them much easier and quicker to sift through.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 13, 2011

However, if you are setting up this rule for receiving emails from a particular person, then choose ‘From people or distribution list’ Now you have to enter specific words. 2011 (c) Tracey Lawton. Related article: 5 Top Tips for Managing Your Emails. This will make them much easier and quicker to sift through.

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Office Organization Success

JUNE 24, 2011

As I was teaching at a recent workshop the same question kept cropping up again and again, and it went something like this: “I’m just starting out in my business. What advice would you give me for knowing where to start in terms of setting up my online systems?”. c) 2011 Tracey Lawton. Get an all-in-one ecommerce solution.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 15, 2018

" This pretty much sums up the advantages of being successfully self-employed.  There is less risk because there’s no regular payroll to meet and less stress because there aren’t employees to manage. This is up from just a bit over 2 million in 2011.  There are many advantages of being a solopreneur.

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On The Job

MAY 24, 2017

Be aware that no matter your level on the career ladder, a hiring manager or recruiter is not above pulling a stunt like this. Don't pick up the phone until you've taken and released a deep breath and you're away from a chaotic atmosphere. If possible, also stand up so that your voice is coming from a stronger place.

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Admin's Note: Since I've been busy keeping up with my work and trying to achieve some productivity in real world, I haven't had an extra time to devote to my blog. You could be out enjoying your day instead of up to your ears in dirty dishes and laundry. Pick up around the house.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 28, 2023

But there’s also an impulse we have to try to define and manage human relationships with numbers in similar ways. We’ll measure how people interact and, as we know, what gets measured, gets managed. One idea presented in the book that does seem to hold up well is his idea of the coefficient of inefficiency.

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Allwork

MAY 20, 2022

When his children were grown up and left home, he decided to sell his house and furniture and start travelling full-time to most countries in the world. . But that doesn’t stop us from reaching far-flung destinations, having wild adventures, and managing everything that makes living aboard a moving vessel possible.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Now, I’m a huge Outlook fan and have written about how you can organize your Outlook inbox through setting up Rules and Filters. All of a sudden all the wonderful rules and filters I’d created in Outlook didn’t, obviously, transfer to Gmail, and so I ended up with this huge glob of emails in my Gmail account … and I mean there were hundreds.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Now, I’m a huge Outlook fan and have written about how you can organize your Outlook inbox through setting up Rules and Filters. All of a sudden all the wonderful rules and filters I’d created in Outlook didn’t, obviously, transfer to Gmail, and so I ended up with this huge glob of emails in my Gmail account … and I mean there were hundreds.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Now, I’m a huge Outlook fan and have written about how you can organize your Outlook inbox through setting up Rules and Filters. All of a sudden all the wonderful rules and filters I’d created in Outlook didn’t, obviously, transfer to Gmail, and so I ended up with this huge glob of emails in my Gmail account … and I mean there were hundreds.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 26, 2017

As the CB Insights chart below shows, the amount of venture capital investments in pet tech startups is up 4 fold over the past 5 years.   And based on the continuing growth in pet spending, it seems the investors behind these deals aren't barking up the wrong tree.  billion dollars.

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Productivity Bits

AUGUST 5, 2010

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. The Next-Action Lists, along with the calendar, are at the heart of daily action-management organization. Managing your tasks under these two elements become easy with the use of the online tool called Simple GTD. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal.

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