The Email Game

by Christine Morris on February 22, 2012

If you’re anything like me, your email box gets out of hand very, very quickly. Like hundreds- of- emails- a -day out of control. Cleaning out your mailbox can  become an overwhelming task. Plus, it is painfully boring and tedious.
Just the sight of a full mailbox can lead to complete overwhelm, but I recently found [...]

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How to Sabbotage Your Business – Failing to Set Boundaries

by Christine Morris on February 16, 2012

We’ve been discussing 5 things that you may be doing to unintentionally sabotage the success of your business, how to recognize them, how to prevent them and how to fix them. Those 5 things are:
Week 1 – Micromanaging
Week 2 – Failing to Manage Time Well
Week 3 – Failing to Set Boundaries
Week 4 – [...]

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iCal

February 14, 2012

Today’s Tech Tip is for our Mac users who wish that there was an easier way to schedule clients, appointments and meetings. Well, your search is over. Introducing iCal.
Simply put, iCal is your personal calendar multi-tasker. This cool program not only lets you schedule tasks like a normal calendar, it goes much, much further by [...]

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How to Sabbotage Your Business – Failing to Manage Your Time

February 9, 2012

 
We’ve been discussing 5 things that you may be doing to unintentionally sabotage the success of your business, how to recognize them, how to prevent them and how to fix them. Those 5 things are:
Week 1 – Micromanaging
Week 2 – Failing to Manage Time Well
Week 3 – Failing to Set Boundaries
Week 4 – Being [...]

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Tech Tip: Tweet Chat

February 7, 2012

A Twitter Chat is a discussion on Twitter that is based around a topic identified by a hashtag (#). For example: #VirtualAssistant or #chocolatecake. Anyone who has a Twitter account can join in on the conversation if they know the hashtag being used for it.
Twitter chats are a great way to market businesses, announce events [...]

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How to Sabbotage Your Business – Micromanaging

February 2, 2012

As we come into February, let’s refocus on growing a successful business. Over the next few weeks we will discuss 5 things that you may be doing to unintentionally sabotage the success of your business, how to recognize them, how to prevent them and how to fix them.
These 5 things are:

Micromanaging
Failing to Manage Time Well
Failing [...]

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Cool Gadgets to Keep Your Office Space Organized

January 31, 2012

As January wraps up many people are already pushing their New Year’s resolutions to the wayside. If you hold on to just ONE of your resolutions, let it be organization! A little organization can go a long way to making your entire life feel more balanced and enjoyable, especially in your workspace.
Just like the NeatDesk, [...]

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What To Do When Good Plans Go Bad

January 26, 2012

 

Sometimes, no matter how well you plan and how careful you are, things go wrong. Whether you’re planning a conference and forget to confirm the caterer or schedule a tweet chat and forget to send out an email to let people know about it, sometimes things get overlooked. It happens to the best of us [...]

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Your Mission Statement

January 19, 2012

 “A clearly defined mission statement gives a template of purpose that can initiate, evaluate and refine all of one’s activities”
Laurie Beth Jones, author of The Path- Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life
 
What is a Mission Statement?
According to Wikipedia, a Mission Statement is:
a statement of the purpose of a company or organization. The [...]

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Make Your Business Smarter with Mobile Credit Card Processors

January 17, 2012

Smartphones are taking over the world!!
No, seriously, Smartphones are everywhere and they are capable of doing more incredible things every day.
It is no surprise then that you can now use your smart phone (BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, etc.) to process credit card transactions. With over 20 Billion credit card transactions every year, having the ability to [...]

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