Marketing and Procrastination: 3 Ways to Avoid this Potentially Deadly Combo
Many entrepreneurs procrastinate on one thing or another in the course of running their business, so if you find yourself doing this, you’re far from alone. However, when it comes to small business marketing, procrastination can lead to a lull between clients, which is bad [...]
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Marketing and Procrastination: 3 Ways to Avoid this Potentially Deadly Combo
Grow Your Business with a Virtual Business Manager
The Top 10 Ways to Grow Your Business with a
Virtual Business Manager
Every now and then you stumble upon a set of small business resources so simple – yet so revolutionary – that rapid expansion of your business is ushered in. For many of today’s small business owners and online entrepreneurs, hiring a Virtual Business Manager [...]
Overcome Three Blocks to Productivity with the Power of Focus
Focus is what successful entrepreneurs use to maximize their business growth while maintaining their work-life balance. Most solopreneurs are able to focus to a certain degree but start to lose focus as their business grows around them. Overcoming three distinct blocks can help solopreneurs who may be spinning their wheels increase their focus and take [...]
GOAL: 4 Ways to Stick With Your New Year’s Resolutions Year-round
GOAL: 4 Ways to Stick With Your New Year’s Resolutions Year-round
By Guest Author Crystal Williamson
Should old acquaintance be forgot …
2010? It’s a new year and new decade! What are your New Year’s Resolutions for 2010? Lose weight, quit smoking (you know who you are!), start a holistic business … What were your resolutions last year [...]
Unlock the Secret to Successful Delegation with DISC Personality Profiling
Unlock the Secret to Successful Delegation with
DISC Personality Profiling
It happens every day; a relationship full of promise and potential for both parties falls apart with bad feelings on both sides. Although this might sound like something more worthy of a dating advice column, the fact is that most business relationships end badly for the same [...]
Increasing Productivity with Your Passion
Yesterday I was having so much fun creating systems and managing my client’s virtual team, that I skipped my lunch, didn’t take my cat out for her walk and do some personal things I planned to do. Now, please don’t get me wrong, I’m a serious advocate for work-life balance. I usually stick to my [...]
Team Building – A simple training process
I often hear from entrepreneurs that they’re challenged with how to train their Virtual Assistant (or team member) effectively – to communicate exactly what they want done, in the easiest and fastest way possible.
A simple training process that I use is the 5 step PEDAF technique. Educational and learning theory shows that the use of [...]
Team Building – How to Deliver Constructive Criticism
Recently I had to give my Virtual Assistant feedback on a task that was done incorrectly. My first instinct, being the ‘tell it like it is’ and detailed type of person that I am , was to state the facts and details – what was wrong , why it is wrong and what needs to [...]
How I gave feedback to my new Virtual Assistant to get exactly what I want done
Giving feedback to your team members is critical to your delegation and virtual team building success. You need give clear, specific feedback and establish frequent check in and feedback methods to manage the process. The type of feedback that you give will vary according to the level of delegated authority you use for each situation [...]
Team Building – How I am Getting out of Overwhelm Today
I woke up this morning feeling excited but also overwhelmed. I received 3 speaking engagement offers that are happening within 2-4 weeks from now. While they are great opportunities for me to talk about what I love most and to promote my services, a LOT of work needs to be done in a very short [...]
