Sat.Jan 07, 2012 - Fri.Jan 13, 2012

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5 Ways to Establish Friendly Relationships at Work

On The Job

One of the most difficult things about starting a new job is trying to become friendly with your colleagues without making yourself seem like a total dweeb. Be too friendly and you come off as a bit of a stalker or maybe a motormouth. Be more reserved and you might be perceived as snooty or weird. So, how to strike the right balance and start relationships off on a friendly note?

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Using Social Media to Build Relationships

Customers Rock!

A lot of businesses love social media because they feel it helps them spread the word about their organization and what they do. And it does. However, I strongly feel one of the most effective uses of social media is to build and deepen relationships with customers – be they consumers, clients, donors, or constituents. I predict this will be a big focus for social media in 2012.

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Smart Marketing = List Segmentation

Office Organization Success

How many times have you registered for a teleclasses – and the teleclass teacher has continued to email you to register for the teleclass? How many times have your purchased a product – and the product creator continues to email you to offer you the product? How many times have you registered for an online program – and the coach/consultant/mentor continues to email you to participate in their program?

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I Invite You to Make 2012 Different - Take a stand and say YES with me.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Warning - this message may be a bit more harsh than you are used to reading from me.  Read it anyway! If you are like most business owners, you created your business because you wanted to live on your own terms and you knew that you have something amazing to offer. But, have you realized that dream? Are you doing what you love, or putting out fires?

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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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8 Top Tips for Start-Ups

The Small Business Blog

January is perhaps unsurprisingly one of the busiest months of the year to start up a business, yet the statistics on survival rates continue to make shocking news. For example in 2010 297,000 UK businesses went bust, equivalent to more than 1,170 every working day.

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Could You Telecommute From Italy?

On The Job

Sometimes the highlight of my day is meeting the new UPS driver. Or cleaning out my keyboard that has become gummed up with peanut butter (the hazards of eating at your desk.) That's why I was intrigued to talk to someone who broke away from the mundane working world and set himself up to work from a truly fabulous place. Read this latest story I did for Gannett/USAToday.com.

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Stay or Go--Two Options For a Client Who Wants a "Break."

Virtual Moxie

Another fine Pick Anastacia’s Brain question! This one is from Lisa , who wrote: "Last year, I had a client take a one-month sabbatical away from her business so she could participate in a work-study program and try to figure out what direction she’d like to take her business. For the time that she was away, we suspended her retainer since I also took a two-week vacation during that time.

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Top 5 Tips for Making Your Small Business More ‘Green’

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Use energy efficient lighbulbs in your workplace and take advantage of natural light wherever possible. 2. Recycle any waste that is generated by your business.

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Forecast Lessons from Past Small Business Trends Lists

Small Business Labs

Last week we released our Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2012 list.  This is the 5th year we've done a public top 10 trends list (we've been doing small business forecasting for about a decade).  Part of the process of putting the list together is a review of past lists.  Here are 4 key forecasting lessons we relearned through this review: 1.  The future doesn't change that often :  This is another way of saying the vast majority of trends take a

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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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Increase Productivity

Office Organization Success

The first step in creating your organized office is to define your space. You need a dedicated space for your working environment, i.e. not the dining room table, or a corner of the living room. When you have a dedicated space it will lead to higher productivity in your business.

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Moxie Tip 98: Nightmare vs Dream Clients

Virtual Moxie

If a potential client doesn't want to work with you because of who you are, or something you believe in or do on your own time, the heck with him! Remember, you nightmare client is someone else's dream. Gotta love that!

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Sticks & Stones; Are Your Own Words Hurting Your Business?

Tips From T. Marie

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me… If you’re anywhere near my age you probably remember hearing the saying above. The problem is, it’s not true. Words can hurt you. And they can hurt your business too. Let’s say you’ve been contacted by a potential client. They point out that judging by the information on your website , not only do you have the skills they are looking for, your price is right.

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What is Wearable Computing?

Small Business Labs

A trend that is getting an increasing amount of coverage is wearable computing.  A recent  New York Times blog post covers the topic and talks about Google and Apple working on wearable computing devices that communicate via cell phones.   Wearable computing is not a new trend. For decades computing devices designed to be attached to the human body have been available.  Most of have been targeted at health and fitness.  Workout related heart rate monitors, for

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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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Just 20 minutes per week can get you new subscribers daily

Office Organization Success

Did you know that by just spending 20 minutes per week updating your online marketing system, you can add new subscribers on a daily basis? Yep that’s right! It’s what I do, and have been doing for years. And I continue to get new subscribers on a daily basis. When you know exactly what to do and how to do it, just about anyone can build their list in this way.

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Moxie Tip 99: Specialty Rates

Virtual Moxie

Anything you do at such a high level that you can offer it as a specialty (meaning you do it so well and so professionally that you could set up a business doing only that) deserves to have its own rate associated with it rather than being lumped in with the rest of your VA services. Another good reason to do it is that you can market it as an additional revenue stream to people who only need that service.

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Color My World with … Brown?

Loosely Speaking

Spa Cloths in Katia Jamaica, crocheted. I am up to my ears in brown yarn, and therefore brown knitted items. For several months prior to November, I did the same thing with olive and lime green. I formerly had dark brown hair but these days it is decidedly un-brown. I own one brown garment (and zero green togs) so I can’t understand why I keep picking up random skeins everywhere in assorted shades of BROWN, my least favorite color of all.

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Professional Makers Expand in 2011

Small Business Labs

TJ McCue has an excellent review of the growth professional Makers in 2011 on the Make Magazine blog.  For those not familiar with Makers, they are part of the new DIY movement of crafters, artisans, digital tinkerers and others interested in making and inventing things.  Most Makers are hobbyists, but a growing number are turning Pro and starting small, Maker-based businesses.  TJ's post captures some of the exciting Maker Pro news from the last year.

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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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Lots of new stuff coming up

Office Organization Success

A Happy New Year to you! I don’t know about you but I’m really excited for the year ahead; I have so many plans and new programs that I want to run, that I’ve already started implementing. And we’re only into the first week of the year! I’m excited on so many fronts. … excited about the open Q&A Livestream I held in the week; it was a lot of fun.

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Moxie Tip 100: Responsibility Without Authority

Virtual Moxie

Anything for which you accept responsibility, but cannot control, makes it, in my view, too great a risk--and vastly frustrating, to boot. If a client wants you to run with something, make sure you have the authority to really do that. If she wants to micromanage it, you don't.

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2011 in review

Practically Perfect PA

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the complete report.

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A Different Experience

Office Dynamics

Welcome to the New Year, Monday Motivators! I have missed writing to you for the past 6 weeks but I see that Nancy Fraze has done an outstanding job. In fact, you probably enjoyed a fresh perspective. I hope you soaked in her creative writing style as that is what captivated me about Nancy’s work when I first met her and why she is a part of the Office Dynamics creative team.

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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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Are You Staring At Me?

Brilliantly Better

As a digital nomad I get to work in public places a lot, especially coffee shops. Every once in a while I run into some mild problems , but, usually, nothing really serious. Until the other day. Sit down, relax, and make sure you don’t read this in a coffee shop too. The Premises. So, here I am, on a nice Monday morning, unpacking my laptop over a nice small table at my favorite Starbucks, arranging my cup of tea and plugging in the cable.

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Moxie Tip 97: Loved or Hated

Virtual Moxie

"I t's better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you aren't " - Andre Gide Enough said, no? :).

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Pinterest Tips – How To Properly Promote Your Business Brand

Small Business CEO

Back in October of 2011, I mentioned how the new social sharing site Pinterest can help you drive traffic to your business blog or website. As an example in the article, I mentioned that a recipe from my personal blog had been pinned over 7,000 times so far. Since then that number has grown to over 15,000. And that recipe has risen to second place in my traffic stats as most popular.

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Data visualisation - which diagram should I use?

BioTeams

Here is an excellent web link plus two great books which address the question which diagram or chart should I use to effectively present information visually. With at least 40 types of diagram and new ones being added daily this is a very hot topic!

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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