Don’t Waste Your Money on SEO
Search engine optimization – SEO – is usually the first thing that comes to mind for business owners who want to get better results online. Is SEO a waste of money? It can be – or it can be your best investment for online success. The difference is in how you get started. The purpose […]
7 Tips For Getting Your Email Newsletter Delivered And Read
A lot of things need to come together to create a great email newsletter, including well written content, attractive formatting and an accurate match of the content to the interests of your target audience. But sometimes even a great newsletter ends up the victim of the subscriber’s Delete button before it even gets opened. Here’s […]
November Productivity Tip
We’re approaching the end of another year. And isn’t it true–the older you get the faster time seems to fly by. Now’s the time to start thinking about the life you want in 2009. Are you ready to tackle those habits that have been preventing you from keeping commitments to yourself? Here are your productivity […]
QuickBooks 2009 is here!
Here are a few of the enhancements designed to make your work in QuickBooks easier, faster, and more accurate: 1. There’s a new button up on the toolbar called “Company Snapshot”. On one screen, you can see an income and expense graph, customer, vendor, and account balances, plus your reminders. Pick either this or the […]
Politics in the Workplace
As Election Day approaches, politics inevitably seeps into the workplace. What if employees become disruptive, argumentative, annoying, or just plain unproductive on account of politics in the workplace? Does an employer have the right to limit political activities of employees in the workplace? The answer is: “It depends.” In the private sector, in some jurisdictions, […]
Your Self Esteem Advisor
In my last issue, I shared information on the advisor we have who talks to us about others. Today I’m covering the one who talks to us about ourselves. It’s called the Self-Esteem advisor. This is all about the type of advice you give yourself…about yourself. From some of the assessments I have conducted, sometimes […]
October is ‘Organize Your Files’ month.
You know. Those 18,000 pieces of paper stuffed in that file cabinet in your office. Yup, that’s how many are in there. And it’s growing. The ‘paperless society’ has been discussed since the early 1970’s yet we now produce more paper today than ever before in the history of mankind. Here are your productivity tips […]
Keep Your Customers Coming Back
Customer loyalty programs work big time for big companies but small business owners are often deterred from developing one because of worries about how much it would cost or how difficult it would be to organize and manage. As a matter of fact, the very same principles that keep customers coming back to big companies […]
Your Online Strategy – A Reality Check
“What’s your online strategy?” I recently asked a group of business owners this question, and heard everything from “I don’t think I really need a website for my business” to “I’m number one in Google for ‘widget installation’ and my Adwords ROI is over 200 percent” – quite a range of tactics, quite a difference […]
Your Empathy-Intuition Advisor
Empathy is the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. It’s about being able to see someone else’s world through your own eyes and identify with the other person’s emotions such as joy, pain, concern and frustration. This is generally based on a similar experience you have experienced in your own life. Intuition is […]