Small Business Labs
MAY 15, 2012
Although the overall labor market continues to improve, there isn't a lot of good job news for young Americans. The Economic Policy Institute's The Class of 2012 lays out how the job situation is for those 25 and younger. The key data is the current unemployment rate for workers under the age of 25 is 16.4%. A couple of other data points of interest are: For high school grads under 25 the unemployment rate is 31%.
The Small Business Blog
MAY 14, 2012
Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Using a credit card is actually a sensible thing for a business to do, provided they are going to be paying it off in full each month.
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Stephanie LH Calahan
MAY 16, 2012
Live conferences are a fantastic way to gain actionable knowledge for your business, rekindle former relationships and make new relationships. They also represent a significant investment in time and money. Yet, many people don't take advantage of the investment like they could. Today I'm going to share my secret tips for how you can triple your results from attending live conferences and events.
On The Job
MAY 18, 2012
I thought the manager’s face would explode. I was at lunch with a high level finance executive the other day when his cell phone rang. He looked at the number displayed on the screen and his face turned beet red – I think I even saw a couple of purple splotches mixed in. He let the call go to voicemail and his face color returned to normal after a few minutes.
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!
Virtual Moxie
MAY 15, 2012
Know who you are, what your business standards are, and then live them. Stand for something, or fall for anything. Have you taken my short, one-question survey about how you like your Moxie Tips? If not, you can read about it here , and then: click here to take the survey. Pretty please? :). I'm going to leave it up just through the end of this week.and your help is so very appreciated!
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Office Organization Success
MAY 17, 2012
The 4th Annual Done4You Giveaway of the Century is on fire! If you haven’t gone over there yet to see all the business and marketing services that are being given away…well, it’s time to do. so now! More than 50 contributors (including me!) have joined together to give away more than $1,000,000 in ACTUAL business services and other done-for-you products.
Small Business Labs
MAY 18, 2012
VUCA is an acronym developed by the U.S. Army War College in the late 1990's to describe their view of the future strategic environment. It stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity and we think this group of words does a pretty good job of describing today's business environment. We also think this operating environment explains why a lot of small businesses are not hiring additional employees. Things are simply too uncertain and too volatile to take on
Virtual Moxie
MAY 13, 2012
Be as, if not more, committed to the well-being of the relationship than you are to doing the work. And always be more committed to the well-being of the relationship than you are to being right when there’s an challenge. Have you taken my short, one-question survey about how you like your Moxie Tips? If not, you can read about it here , and then: click here to take the survey.
Step It Up VA Coaching
MAY 17, 2012
by Donna Toothaker. It is not uncommon for the summer season to be a slow period for many Virtual Assistants and business owners. This shouldn’t be a time to sit back and ride it out. Take advantage of this time to do those things that oftentimes get put on the back burner or at the bottom of the priority list. There can be a happy medium. Using this time efficiently can help things to run more smoothly during busy times , and can even allow for an increase in sales and service requests just by
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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.
Office Organization Success
MAY 15, 2012
This is your last call if you want to join me live for tomorrow’s virtual workshop: Create and Launch Your First Info Product in 30 Days. Why join me live? Because when you do, you’ll have the opportunity to ask me your info product creation questions right there on the workshop! Here’s a quick refresher… During the workshop you will learn how to: take your existing content and turn it into a paid info product. the exact system you need to have in place to automate the de
Small Business Labs
MAY 18, 2012
Best selling author Neil Gaiman gave the commencement address at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His theme was "Make Good Art" and in it he shared his "secret freelancer knowledge": You get work however you get work, but people get to keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time.
Virtual Moxie
MAY 17, 2012
Part of what’s covered by your fees are your indirect expenses, which include the benefits you have to provide for yourself. For this reason, it's patently untrue to tell the world that clients don't have to pay for your benefits. The truth is they do--but only a very small part of the total. Have you taken my short, one-question survey about how you like your Moxie Tips?
On The Job
MAY 14, 2012
As the economy starts to improve, more workers who have felt overworked and underpaid may be ready to jump ship. But in looking for greener grass, where will these employees land? A good bet is that workers will look not only for better paychecks, but for companies where they can grow their individual talents. After the job market of the past several years, workers are more aware than ever that they need to keep their skills up to date if they want to stay viable in the marketplace.
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Office Organization Success
MAY 14, 2012
Here I am in lovely Charlotte, NC, at Suzanne Evans’ 10K Club. We’re working with a great group of business owners, and I’m focused on helping them build their businesses with the right systems. This is the first of the 10K Club in-person intensives for the 2012 year, and everyone is so pumped and excited to be here. Registrations are going great for next week’s live, virtual workshop: Create and Launch Your First Info Product in 30 Days.
Small Business Labs
MAY 14, 2012
Shaker LaunchHouse is a 23,000 square foot startup accelerator located in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. They are sponsoring a 12 week residential accelerator program that will provide $25,000 in funding, classes on entrepreneurship, mentoring and networking for 10 startup teams. The program begins on September 3rd and is held at LaunchHouse (bring your long johns, winter starts early in Cleveland).
Virtual Moxie
MAY 16, 2012
Recognize goodness so that you can work together, and celebrate and promote one another, rather than pushing against one another.
Office Dynamics
MAY 13, 2012
Hello, Motivators! I would like to bring up some simple tips that we all know, subconsciously, yet sometimes we need to bring them to the forefront. Remember that you can easily blow your career by losing your cool at work. So know ahead of time what might cause such incidents and think about ways to deal with them civilly and compassionately: You feel left out.
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.
Brilliantly Better
MAY 14, 2012
I strongly believe that we, as humans, should come with our own custom user manual. Just like any other device in our lives, you know? Why having a user manual for your dishwasher, for your toaster, for your TV set, and not one for yourself? What if people misuse you? What if they push the [.].
Small Business Labs
MAY 16, 2012
Excellent article in the Harvard Business Review on The Rise of the SuperTemp. According to the article: "Supertemps are top managers and professionals—from lawyers to CFOs to consultants—who’ve been trained at top schools and companies and choose to pursue project-based careers independent of any major firm." The article goes to say: Most supertemps are refugees from big corporations and law and consulting firms who value the autonomy and flexibility of temporary or project-based
The Shrink for Entrepreneurs
MAY 17, 2012
Do you trust me? Trust is everything. Entrepreneurs are merchants of trust. More than any other group, except perhaps therapists. So this topic is near and dear to my heart. Entrepreneurs need trust like a fish needs water – in deal making, customer satisfaction, investment and more. Cutting edge research has put a spotlight on trust and everything that matters in business.
Small Business CEO
MAY 18, 2012
The reasons to go green are often pitched as necessary changes for the continued existence of the world with growing populations and pollution. While not wrong, going green often comes with a stigma of raising costs of business, and in an unstable economy it can seem dangerous to go through any dramatic change in doing business. Here are some examples of ways going green can save you money and be good for business, all while helping the environment.
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.
Brilliantly Better
MAY 17, 2012
I tried at least a dozen of productivity apps in the last 5 years. Since none of them was good enough for what productivity means to me, I wrote my own. It’s called iAdd, it’s only $1.99 (a fairly good price, if only you think you get two apps for that, an iPad one and [.].
BioTeams
MAY 14, 2012
Many business models used by organisations have never been calibrated nor verified against the organisation's historical data which seriously limits their usefulness. This is generally down to the way they have been structured and built and not because of a lack of calibration data. So how can you build business models which do not suffer from this fatal flaw?
The Shrink for Entrepreneurs
MAY 17, 2012
Do you trust me? Trust is everything. Entrepreneurs are merchants of trust. More than any other group, except perhaps therapists. So this topic is near and dear to my heart. Entrepreneurs need trust like a fish needs water – in deal making, customer satisfaction, investment and more. Cutting edge research has put a spotlight on trust and everything that matters in business.
Small Business CEO
MAY 15, 2012
Later today our sister site Small Business Trends is conducting a Twitter chat starting at 1pm EST. During this hour long chat Anita Campbell will discuss with us common branding mistakes and tips to fix them. So if you have branding questions about your business be sure to submit them on Twitter with the hashtag #FedExOffice. Then this afternoon, beginning at 1pm ET, follow along with the hashtag to see the answers.
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
Service Untitled
MAY 14, 2012
A strong business culture that is aligned with superior business goals outperforms their competitors by light years. These are the organizations who have figured out how to delight their customers and even make them smile. After all isn’t the Zappos’ motto “powered by service” incredibly motivational which delivers a message of trust and reliability?
Men With Pens
MAY 14, 2012
Let’s talk about your blog. I know. It’s a painful topic for many of you. You don’t know what to write, you don’t feel confident about what you DO write, and frankly, you’d rather not be blogging at all. It’s nerve-wracking, stressful and not as much fun as you thought it would be when you started it. You’re behind on your blogging schedule… and it’s been a while since you’ve written a post.
BioTeams
MAY 14, 2012
Elite sportsmen and women use advanced breathing and focalising techniques to get themselves "into the zone" where exceptional performance becomes the norm. TakeTen a small Belfast company have invented an innovative system to bring these techniques into our classrooms and workplaces in a fun and affordable way.
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