Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 31, 2011

Business Networking!  It is either something you love to do or something you would rather not do.  Many of my clients tell me that they would rather have a root canal than go to a local event to network! Does that feel familiar? Maybe that is because you don't make the most of the meetings you go to. Maybe that is because you are uncomfortable and feel like that kid that stood on the wall at school dances.

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On The Job

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Many people think they want to work from home until they do it. Then, they get tired of the isolation, the constant need to do housework or watch "Teen Mom" when they should be working. It's not for everyone, but if you can find a way to stay focused, it might be a way to forge a new career path. Here's a story I did for Gannett/USAToday: The job outlook hasn't been rosy for years, but at least one area continues to grow: remote work.

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Office Organization Success

AUGUST 31, 2011

That’s right! Suzanne is looking to add new members to her team. When you get bigger. You better get better. And now Suzanne is on the verge of launching and announcing some amazing new stuff and is looking for — YOU! A big expansion is taking place and she is looking to fill four new positions… yes you heard correctly! When most businesses are laying off… she is hiring!

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 30, 2011

As many of you know all too well, the east coast of the United States just lived through one of the biggest, baddest hurricanes to ever make landfall here, and it came on the heels of a not-insignificant earthquake. Did I ever think I’d really experience something like this one/two punch from Mother Nature here in Baltimore? Nope. This stuff really doesn’t happen here.

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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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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you separate yourself from your business activity.

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On The Job

AUGUST 30, 2011

When was the last time you ate a really good meal while in a meeting? If you're like most people, the boss might "order in" some pizzas, which show up cold, go down greasy and settle like a bomb in your stomach (along with the garlic bread and tepid soda and stale cookie you also consumed). That's why asking the boss out to a nice meal can have numerous payoffs.

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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.  CRM Magazine has 3 ratings categories - enterprise, mid-market and small business - and the top firms vary by category with one exception.  Salesforce.com dominates the leader board and is the highest scoring CRM company in all 3 categories.  Not surprisingly, Salesforce also won in the sales automation category.&#

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Job Advice Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

A recent visit to a public restroom made me smile. I was hoping nobody saw me smiling, but it was quite humorous. In this recently remodeled restroom, everything was automated. To wash my hands, I placed one hand under a U-shaped pipe, which squirted soap. I then moved my hand under the faucet, and water [.].

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 31, 2011

Clients don't "hire" VAs. Clients "work with," or, "retain the services of," VAs. Language of equality matters. Are you watching yours?

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Productivity Bits

AUGUST 27, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. This post is by Tom Moore. Tom is a gadget lover and entrepreneur writing for iLapdesk , retails of the famous laptop tray which they call a Lap Desk. F or many people, especially those in their 20s, no accessory is truly “theirs&# without a little customization.

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Office Organization Success

AUGUST 29, 2011

The boys started back to school this week and we’re all enjoying a normal routine again. I don’t know about you, but this time of year always bring out the planning bug in me. I think it’s the back to school thing. I feel I need to clear out clutter, plan what I’m going to be offering during the course of the next year, and generally just update and revise.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 29, 2011

Make it easy to contact specific groups of people by keeping and abbreviated list of contact information. E.g., all department members or a project team. Use the “group’ feature in your e-mail client to define a group of people as message recipients or to sort contacts by category. Related articles. Top tips for Outlook – Outlook – Office.com (office.microsoft.com).

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 30, 2011

There's nothing sadder than self-victimization. Avoid it by having high standards that serve you, by being self-aware, and by being 100% at choice.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Guest Author. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. B rands have become the most important factor for selling products. Once just a part of the larger business picture, brands now play a leading role and determine the success of a product and the related business. Brand building however, is not easy. It requires concerted and focused effort and various brand promotion exercises, many of which are expensive propositions.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

by Donna Toothaker. There is a saying that goes, “how you do one thing is how you do everything.&# This is especially true in business, but it also applies to your personal life and relationships. How you treat people, including your behaviors and actions toward others, crosses over into every area of your life. If you are someone people can count on, you will most likely be dependable in business relationships as well.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

SEOmoz  is a very successful software startup based in Seattle.  They provide software, tools, and resources that help their clients with search engine optimization (SEO).  They also host one of the most popular and vibrant online communities focused on SEO and in-bound marketing. They recently tried to secure a major funding round, but failed.  Their CEO, Rand Fishkin, covers the ups and downs of the process is an outstanding blog post:  Misadventures in VC F

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 30, 2011

Who doesn’t multi-task these days? In running your business, it’s either a gift you’re born with, or a demand you’ll have to delegate to an assistant. You may even be multi-tasking in areas you’ve never tackled before. While you may have hired many household tasks done in the past, more of us are repairing leaky faucets, landscaping, altering & mending our clothes, or even cleaning our own homes.

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Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As you genuinely embrace your status as a business owner, you'll see that status reflected in the way others treat you.

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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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Small Business CEO

AUGUST 29, 2011

More and more small businesses are setting up their Web headquarters on Facebook instead of a traditional website. This has several benefits over a typical small business website. For one, a Facebook page is free. It also provides an instant connection to potential customers in a way that standard websites don’t. You don’t need to hire a professional to design a Facebook page, and you don’t need to pay someone to optimize it for search engines.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Ad Age's What Will the Role of Whites Be in a Multicultural America  discusses how whites (also known as caucasians or euro-caucasians in more politically correct circles) are becoming a minority in the U.S. and what this means for marketers. It's a good article, covering a lot of ground around the U.S. becoming a majority-minority country where no ethic or racial group has majority status.  This will likely happen by 2030, if not sooner.  We're already close to maj

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 27, 2011

Activities like sewing and knitting keep my design eye in tune. By spending some time daily on those pursuits, I believe I am keeping my instincts sharp. Then, when a client asks me to create a new web ad for them, I can tap into a creative process that I can rely on. I usually begin by sketching out my design idea (whether for a web site, knitted or sewn project) and playing around with images (or fibers, needles, fabric and thread) for awhile.

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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 29, 2011

Tweet Last Friday I launched – in soft mode – my latest ebook, Brilliantly Better. During the last 48 hours anyone interested in getting it had the chance to buy it at a discounted price, 9.99 USD. As of now, the price of the ebook is at the normal level, meaning 16.99 USD. Also, a few other things have been completed, adding the final touches to the launch.

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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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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 29, 2011

The dark side of the entrepreneur’s learning curve isn’t often discussed. We’re so obsessed with reframing failure as “learning” that we ignore the scary reality of doing so. What if each learning curve you hit also meant a compromise of your goals and vision? What if you’ve “learned” so much on this journey that you’ve forgotten why you even began it?

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

This week, my kiddo had her first day of school, and we both were feeling a touch emotional knowing she was headed off to Grade One (albeit for far different reasons). It was a big change and a great unknown. And as I waved goodbye at the bus stop, I thought about how much facing that first day of Grade One can teach you about starting that project you’ve been working on, that launch you’ve been preparing, or even that first day of business you’ve been planning for so long.

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Service Untitled

AUGUST 30, 2011

If you had to cancel your flight because of Hurricane Irene, you may have been waiting on a “a virtual holding pattern&# for a customer service representative. Depending upon the airline a passenger chose, a lot of customer service left much to be desired considering hundreds of thousands of airline, rail and bus passengers were slated to be grounded as Hurricane Irene swept up the East Coast.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Tweet If I look back at the most successful posts on this blog (and there are more than 500 articles published so far) they’re all emerged as part of interactions, not as standalone revelations or epiphanies. They became popular only when they were part of some challenge or response to other bloggers. I don’t know if this is the rule on the internet, but it’s certainly true for this blog.

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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

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The Marq

AUGUST 29, 2011

Climbing Mount Whitney So, we’re at the top of Week 7, but there’s already a need to change the program. I’m not terribly surprised. The beauty of sharing ideas is that friends, fellow bloggers and readers often suggest better ideas or, at a minimum, means to improve. Chris T., one of our climbing crew members, made an excellent comment in the previous post.

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Productivityist

AUGUST 30, 2011

James Shelley: “Sheer happiness for happiness’ sake leads to numbness. I can not imagine any other consequence. For once happiness is achieved, what remains? Does not the bubble of the happiness economy eventually burst under the surplus of indulgence?” Louis CK: Gretchen Rubin: “To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” Trent Reznor: Don’t open your eyes you won’t like what you see.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

One of the best ways to become a better assistant is to be your boss for a day. What I mean by this is hire someone to take care of a task for you or be your assistant for a day with anything you need help with. It’s not until you are paying someone money, to help make your life easier, do you realize the challenges of finding someone good, eager. You will learn how time-consuming and difficult it is to train them or communicate to them how you want a task done to your liking and specifications.

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Productivity Bits

AUGUST 29, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. This guest post is by Haim Pekel, Marketing Director at IQTELL. M ost people agree that preparation and planning are keys to your long term performance. If you are prepared and cover all the angles, then you would probably perform better, right? Well, Not exactly. Planning ahead and over planning have an invisible line between them, a line that once crossed, takes you from getting things done to procrastinating.

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 28, 2011

Even if you learned 500 new things every single day for the rest of your life, you'd reach your deathbed not knowing it all, not knowing how to do it all, and certainly not wanting to do it all. So it stands to reason that there are no VAs who can "do it all." If you've been believing that, stop. Your time is now. Your place is here. Instead of worrying about what a potential client needs that you don't/can't do, boost your confidence 1000x by figuring out how you'd get those things handled.

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