Sat.Jul 23, 2011 - Fri.Jul 29, 2011

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10 Signs You're a High Maintenance Employee

On The Job

There's been publicity in the past about demands by high-profile celebrities and music stars. They insist on only white in their dressing rooms -- from white M&Ms to white sofas to white flowers. Or, they may request that special water is flown in from a small town in the south of France via Air Force One. (The water is for their dog, of course.

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Service Providers - Consider this Tool for Accurate Time Tracking and Client Billing

Stephanie LH Calahan

Time is money, as the saying goes, but if you don't have a good way to track your time, you can't bill your clients accurately and ultimately are not making the income you should.  Today, I've asked Rachel Minihan to tell us a bit more about the tool that she uses and loves in her business. ~~~~~~. Service providers, do these sound familiar?

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How to rid the world of bottled water

Eco-Office Gals

Lately, all around us more and more cities, universities, companies, and the like are banning bottled water. Time even named ‘the war on bottled water’ #4 on its Top 10 Food Trends. “Once hip, bottled water is now unforgivably ‘90s,” John Cloud writes in the article. But why you might ask? Well, cost. Bottled water is at least 300 times more expensive than tap water.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Businesses on YouTube

The Small Business Blog

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. In order for your small business to get noticed on YouTube, make sure that you are providing content that is useful.

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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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24 Time Management Tips

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. Know what is important to you. Figure out your values. Make goals and review them regularly to keep focus. Learn to delegate: co-workers, professionals, family members, neighbour teenagers earning extra money can all help with your workload. Learn to say no. Stop being a perfectionist. Not everything has to be done perfectly. Clear the clutter from your desk.

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Should You Go Back to School?

On The Job

When I graduated from college you could not have gotten me back in a classroom for any amount of money. Nope. Could not have paid me to go back to school. I was done. Kaput. Enough. No more term papers, no more boring lectures, no more studying for stuff I didn't care about. Flash forward many years and the career I loved -- journalism -- was going down the toilet faster than a dead goldfish.

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Business Startup Software

The Small Business Blog

Thinking about starting a business? You may also wonder about what software to use, Microsoft Office (now even available online), accounting software and so on – but is that really the software you need right now?

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Moxie Tip 10: Play to the Strong

Virtual Moxie

You can't possibly give of yourself to everyone. So play to the strong, not the weak. By doing so, you'll grow faster, and you'll attract more of what and who you desire and less of who/what are a wast of your time and energy.

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What You Can Learn from @Charter about Social Media

Tips From T. Marie

As a Virtual Online Technology Assistant and a small business owner who has had a good deal of success using social media I’m often asked by others about how to use social media successfully for their own businesses. Often I feel I have disappointed them when I explain why I feel social media has worked for me because it doesn’t include auto-tweets , sales pitches or using a Twitter following or Facebook Page friends as advertising targets.

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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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Dr. Stanley Pearle: The Original Customer Relationship Builder

Make or Break Moments

This week one of my business heroes passed away, Dr. Stanley Pearle. Dr. Pearle was the founder and original owner and lifetime inspiration for the optical retail chain: Pearle Vision. I started to work for Pearle Vision in 1987 when the only optical discount was in August for &# Family Eyecare Month.&# We didn’t have computers in [.].

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Benefit Declines Makes Self-Employment More Attractive

Small Business Labs

It's no surprise that companies continue to cut workplace benefits.  According to a U.S. News article : "Employers have significantly cut many of the benefits they offer to workers over the past five years." The article goes on to list 21 workplace benefits that are going away, with reductions in retirement and health care benefits leading the way.

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Moxie Tip 11: Check Your Ethics

Virtual Moxie

Ethics are a big deal in life and in business. No one likes to deal with people whose ethics are lacking. How high are yours? For instance, would you know a conflict of interest if you saw one? And do you have a standard for how to deal with one when it shows up?

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How Much Training Do You Really Need?

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Is it really true that the more technical training and certifications you receive, the more valuable you are to clients? There are many classes and services readily available, but is it really necessary to do it all? In reality, this approach could backfire because it’s impossible to be everything to everyone. There is a good reason why specialists are more valuable than generalists who try to know and do everything.

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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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Dr. Stanley Pearle: The Original Customer Relationship Builder

Make or Break Moments

'This week one of my business heroes passed away, Dr. Stanley Pearle. Dr. Pearle was the founder and original owner and lifetime inspiration for the optical retail chain: Pearle Vision. I started to work for Pearle Vision in 1987 when … Continue reading → making a difference Dr.

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Water, Water Not Everywhere

Small Business Labs

Water, or more accurately the lack of water, is becoming a big deal.  For most Americans access to clean, safe water is a given. Water is so cheap we give it little thought.  For example, despite living in an area with high water rates, until today I had no idea how much a gallon of water costs (it's about a penny, which seems really, really cheap).  This is starting to change.  The Week's The Revenge of Water provides a good summary of the potential w

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Moxie Tip 12: Model Your Ethics

Virtual Moxie

One of the hallmarks of a terrific and successful Virtual Assistant is not only having great ethics, but modeling them for her clients. Isn't leading great? :).

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Minute taking webinar

Laughing all the Way to Work

Join me for an effective minute-taking webinar on Thursday, July 28 at 1 p.m. EST If you are interested, you can register here.

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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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Happy Accidents

Brilliantly Better

I’m not an active Buddhist, Taoist (or even a Christian, although I was baptized as such) but every now and then I stumble upon some beautiful stories emerging from those parts of the human mind. What follows is a beautiful Taoist story: There was an old man with a small farm in China many years ago. He had one son, who did most of the work on the farm and a a neighbor, himself old with a son.

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Death by Social Media: Is There Such a Thing?

Small Business CEO

No, it’s not a typo. I am referring to death caused by social media and not whether social media died already or not. We all know that social media is alive and well, in fact it is on another tab on my browser. People from all walks of life spanning different continents are socially active for various reasons. Business owners, PR managers and marketing gurus have wisely used social media as a platform to increase visibility, readership, their fan base and even sales.

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Moxie Tip 9: Goal!

Virtual Moxie

Keep your focus on what you want and WHO you want. If you don't know, or you don't pay attention, how can you reasonably expect to manifest it?

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How to Kickstart Your Book Project

Men With Pens

I’ve been called many things in my life. Patient is not one of them. So when I received strong interest for my fourth book from traditional publishers and was told they’d put it out in spring of 2012…. Well. Like I said, I’ve never been called patient. I decided to take control of my own destiny and circumvent traditional publishers – and I’m going to tell you exactly how I raised money, planned my coupe and sped up publication of my fourth book by one full year, so that you can do the sam

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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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Luck, Bad Luck And The Illusion Of Control

Brilliantly Better

I used to be a control freak. No longer than 4-5 years ago I was owning and running a moderately big online business. By “moderately big” I understand a network of websites with more than 1.000.000 unique users each month and a yearly income in the hundreds of thousands of euros. According to today’s economy, I guess this will easily qualify as a big business anyway.

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Give An Employee Engagement Tip, Win A $50 Amazon Gift Certificate

Small Business CEO

Distractions surround us everywhere, especially with the addition of social media into most employees’ work routines. At any given moment, an employee’s attention can be pulled away and focus can be lost for hours. So how can you make sure your workers remain engaged and focused on the tasks at hand? BizSugar.com is looking for you to provide your own tips for keeping employees engaged.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs one year on – What I learned and what comes next

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Hi Readers! Long time no see – I’m just returning from a blogging hiatus and I have some news to share. There’s been a lot happening. Also, this week (Wednesday, specifically) is the anniversary of my site launch – though I’ve had a website for sometime, I wasn’t really online until July 27th 2010. It’s been one hell of a year and I’ve got some war stories (aka entrepreneurial learnings) to share.

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Should You Really Call Yourself a Consultant?

Men With Pens

These days, it’s cool to be a consultant. Everyone’s becoming one. Hey, it’s the easy path to fast cash, right? You write a sales page, you promote your new service, and you become an expert. Simple. And most likely, you rock. Your fans and friends tell you that all the time, so it must be true. And they’re great too, and you tell the world all the time about your fantastic consulting clients.

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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