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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

Success

Scalability refers to the ability of a business to increase revenue without much increase in costs. Work with a professional graphic designer at the planning stage of your business and consider all the possibilities for future growth. That logo may look fine close-up on a business card.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

Success

Sadly, this is the conventional wisdom on networking: talk about yourself with as many people as you can for just long enough to hand out your business card in the hopes that some of these seeds will sprout, even without watering. Customers for life, they refer their friends to you, and frequently. Some bad, mostly good.

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10 Sites for Quotations

Ian's Messy Desk

When I am looking for quotations , these are 10 sites I have bookmarked: Wikiquote – A wiki of quotes from the Wikipedia family of reference. There is a lot of knowledge to be culled and transfered from others. The brainy quote – thousands of quotations organized by topic, author and type.

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Communication Productivity Tip: Don't Make People Search for You.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  This is the back of my card as a sample of what I mean: Creating Your Online Business Card An online business card is one site that lists all of your connection points online.  If I had not taken the time to complete my profile, we probably would not be doing the project in January.

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Good Ol’ Fashioned Marketing is Still Good For Business!

Step It Up VA Coaching

Put birthdays on your calendar and send cards to your clients – your kindness will be remembered, and so will you when the opportunity comes up for a client to refer somebody to your company. A good way to keep track of client birthdays and send out cards automatically is to use an online service like SendOutCards.com.

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Retrieve Your Files With Ease

Professional Assistant Blog

Do you feel that you should have some sort of control over these files on how you find them, for future reference? I gave in my health card and was asked to be seated. Your boss could ask you for something at a moments notice and you are expected to find the information within minutes.

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Co-Workers Annoying You?

Professional Assistant Blog

Taking a break is good for your health, but its not a bar or a club. Here are some tips on getting your team members to lower their voices: Ask the group of people to quiet down, move their conversation to a meeting room or even take the conversation outside. Its nice to socialize at times, but we are here to work.