Sat.Mar 19, 2011 - Fri.Mar 25, 2011

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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

" I have no idea who those people are, but they were important to me at one time. " That is what a recent client told me when I opened a drawer in her office and found it filled with business cards. The cards had been collected over a year or so of miscellaneous networking events and trade shows.  She'd had good intentions of making connections after the events, but the cards never made it farther than her desk drawer.  Over time, she had forgotten who many of the people

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5 Simple Career Management Tips Everyone Should Follow Starting Now

Eat Your Career

There are a few standard career management tips I recommend to every professional regardless of position, industry, experience level, or future ambitions. These things are super easy to do and they help ensure you’re taking at least a minimally active role in your professional development. No matter how busy you are, there’s just no excuse to ignore these tips.

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World Water Day 2011

Eco-Office Gals

Today, March 22, 2011 is World Water Day: The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems. – from un-water. Not too many moons ago, my family was in a position of knowing what is like to go without water.

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Depended on, not dependent on

Virtual Moxie

Last week, I wrote about being sick , and loved getting your good wishes, as well as your comments about handling being away from your work when you need to be. In one of those emails, a question from Aimee in Texas that I said I’d tackle today (yep—back in the office, feeling a bit raspy-voiced, but otherwise a-ok!). She writes: "Thank you for helping me remember that I need to care for myself first.

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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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Productive Marketing: Is Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle? It Could Be!

Stephanie LH Calahan

One of the reasons that I can get so much done in my business and in life is because I like things that are easy to implement and this is certainly one of them.  Marketing business coaches will tell you that one of the best ways to market on the internet is to re-purpose your content.  If you follow me on my various platforms ( www.SocialWithSteph.com ) you may have noticed that I do this quite a bit.  Why spend time crafting something to only use it once?!

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Spring Clean Your Business

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Spring is coming, and with it, an opportunity for a little sprucing up! Time to make a clean sweep of your office, your business systems, and even your mind! As a Virtual Assistant, you likely work from a home office. Chances are, your clients are all over the country (or the globe), and will never come to your office for a meeting.

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VIDEO: How To Plan Your Small Business Cashflow

The Small Business Blog

I know from listening to many readers of my blog, and small business owners, that cashflow planning is something that can be intimidating. I made this video to show just how simple and uncomplicated cashflow planning can be. There’s no need to make it complicated or time consuming, cashflow planning is vital for small business success, but it can also be incredibly easy.

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Link Lineup: Small Business Tools, Time and Todos, Productive Marketing and More!

Stephanie LH Calahan

Every other Wednesday, I share links to a number of different blogs and sites.  Today, you can see content on: Small Business Tools. Time and To-Dos. Productive Marketing. Data Backup. Small Business Tools 101 Small Business Web Applications You Must Check Out - [link] -- Small Business Trends has made an outstanding list of web applications that you should check out!

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Do Workplace Etiquette Rules Need to Change?

On The Job

What's the rudest behavior you've seen at work by someone with a smartphone in their hand? It may take you a minute to think of the No. 1 worst behavior (many people seem to carry a list in their pocket), but before you spout off, I want you to consider something else. What's your rudest workplace behavior? Are you snarking about someone else's behavior when your manners are less than stellar?

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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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Dress Greener for the Office

Eco-Office Gals

Contrary to popular thought, you don’t have to rely on clothes that stomped on Mother Nature’s feet to get to your closet. Admittedly, it’s easier to stop by the mall on the way home after you’ve spilled coffee on a white blouse, but let’s remember that most of the clothes you’ll find there are unfairly traded and harvested in ways that would make Mother Nature scream.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Security Awareness

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Make sure that employees are fully educated about all of the potential security risks that your business faces so that they are prepared to meet security challenges head on. 2. Try to integrate your security policies with the latest security technology and software wherever possible. 3.

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Top 10 Tips for Managing Up in a Top Down World

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. by: Roberta Matuson. 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. 1. 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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The Growing Role of Analytics in College Basketball

Small Business Labs

Meteorologist Becomes a Go-To Guy from the New York Times covers a free college basketball statistics website used by many college coaches.  The site and the analytics were developed by a Utah based meteorologist as a hobby a few years ago.  Using data in sports is not new.  Sabermetrics , the study of baseball statistics, has long been popular with baseball managers, executives and fans.  But what is new is the amount of data being collected and the sophistication

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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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Are You Changing Lives?

Men With Pens

“I change lives.”. During my recent trip to SXSW , I overheard these three words often. Someone would ask a person what they did for a living and more often than not, the person would brighten, smile and chirp up the answer. “I change lives!”. And I would think to myself, “Well, now. That’s kind of dumb.”. Sorry, but it is. You’re a human being. You change lives all the time, every day.

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Top 100 Small Business Podcasts

Small Business CEO

Each year Small Business Trends Radio takes the time and effort to share with us the best small business podcasts the internet has to offer. And they not only list a few great ones but they go above and beyond to list 100 of the best! That gives you hours and hours of the most valuable small business information out there. To save you time from sorting through the selection, they categorized them for easier browsing.

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How To Build Up People With Praise

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. Successful relationships are key to personal success. There is little accomplished today that does not require some measure of support from community or teams. If you want to develop successful relationships, work on building up others. You know the people who encourage you and how good you feel when you are around them. You have likely encountered those that would tear you down, and you know how that makes you feel.

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Baby Boomer Startups - Need, Ennui or a Lack of Alternatives?

Small Business Labs

The Wall Street Journal's In Charge Blog has an interesting post asking if baby boomers start businesses out of need or ennui?   This question got me thinking, and not just because I thought an ennui was a large, ostrich-like bird that lived in Australia.  One of the key forecasts in our Changing Face of Small Business report from 5 years ago was that baby boomers would increasingly choose to work for or start small businesses instead of pursuing traditional ret

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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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Why the comparisons you make determine your success

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

There’s an uncomfortable truth about being human that none of us like to admit. It’s another one of those universal facts that none of us really escape. Even though we try to pretend we’re above it. This little habit-of-thought drives almost one hundred percent of our ambition and motivation. In other words, this is a powerful part of our psychology!

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How “Small” Is Your Small Business?

Small Business CEO

According to a recent SBA press release , there is a proposal to revise the definition of small businesses. This redefinition of how “small&# a business is, is in accordance with the Small Business Act. The establishment of size standards has two considerations. The first one is that it should have variance depending on industries to account for the differences between them and the second is that the policies set forth by the Small Business Administration should be for further help to smal

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Even accountants need to work on customer service skills

Service Untitled

April 15th is just over the horizon, and for many of us “tis the season&# to get in touch with our accountants. I doubt you will find many accountants in small windowless offices content with just the solitude of their numbers anymore. They have even transgressed beyond the generally unnoticed professionals at quiet business lunches or rotary dinners.

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The Amazing Growth of the Pet Industry

Small Business Labs

As a life long dog owner, I love following pet trends.  The Mini Trends blog has a nice post on both pet trends and the "Petrepreneurs" who are building businesses related to pets. The post has a good "state of the pet nation" description: "Even though more households have a dog than a cat, cats have the upper paw, with 93.6 million feline pets compared with 77.5 million canines.

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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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Internet Monitoring Software: A Productivity Booster

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest-Post. This guest post was provided by Lee Munson on behalf of GFI Software Ltd. GFI is a leading software developer that provides a single source for network administrators to address their network security, content security and messaging needs. More information: GFI Internet Monitoring Software.

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Are you confusing your clients with too many products?

Office Organization Success

When you have a whole mish-mash of smaller information products available to your clients and customers they become confused – they don’t know which product(s) to buy, and as a result may not buy anything! Your promotions also become harder because you don’t know what to promote so you try to promote everything, generally all at the same time and confuse your clients even more.

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How social awareness can improve customer relationship management

Service Untitled

Businesses grow as more customers come aboard, and that constant search for new clients is the life jacket for success. Of course building relationships with new customers are paramount; the hard part is taking the leads and transforming them into customers. One of the best ways to do that is through customer engagement; in other words having a customer relationship management strategy.

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How do awards help an organization’s branding?

Service Untitled

An appealing and highly recognizable brand helps an organization deliver their message as to service and the products they sell. We’re all salespeople – the difference is what and how we deliver. Our success didn’t just come about overnight; we’ve been working at it for a considerable amount of time. We have made connections, used innovative marketing techniques, and best of all, we have delivered what we promised.

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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