Articles - Running Your Business
Help an Intern, Let Her Help You
Do you need assistance launching a publicity campaign, setting up your web site, or following up on leads? Help might be as close as your nearest college.
Get Sponsored
Your business may be approached as a possible sponsor for community sports teams, television or radio broadcasts, trade shows, and other events, but have you ever thought of seeking sponsors for your small business?
Year-End Planning
What are you doing to make next year a huge year for you?
And Now a Word from Your Sponsor
Your business may be approached as a possible sponsor for community sports teams, television or radio broadcasts, trade shows, and other events, but have you ever thought of seeking sponsors for your small business?
What a Virtual Assistant Can Do For You
If you are handling routine tasks instead of marketing or providing services to customers, you are leaving profits on the table. A Virtual Assistant (VA) may be just what you need.
Cloning Myself
If you ever feel that you need at least two of you to do everything you need to do, read this to find out how to painlessly clone yourself.
Get the Help You Need by Hiring the Right Consultant
It is not unusual for consultants and other experts to seek advice from others who have expertise that is different from theirs. No matter how knowledgeable and successful anyone is, we all can learn from others.
What is a Teleseminar?
A teleseminar is a class you take over the telephone. Prior to the teleseminar, you will receive a phone number and participant code. At the time of the call, you call in and enter the participant code. You will be connected to the call, along with the facilitators and all other participants. You might think of it as being a big party line, where 10, 25, 50, 100 or more people are all connected at once.
Get a Mentor (or Several Virtual Mentors)
A mentor is anyone who can help you advance on your journey. It may be someone who takes you under his wing to teach you specific skills or introduce you to others who can help you. I consider anyone from whom I can learn to be a mentor, even if that learning takes place by reading a book or listening to an audio program.
Keep Learning
What are you doing to keep learning?
Marketing Resolutions
Maybe this is the year you plan to get organized, stop smoking, or finally lose those extra pounds you’ve been carrying around. Of course, many people make ambitious resolutions every year, and then fail to follow through. Here is how you can make resolutions to create positive marketing habits, and make those habits stick.
Using Freelancers
Are there tasks you would like to outsource, but you don’t know how to find freelancers, or believe you can’t afford them? Freelance help can free up your time for revenue-producing activities and be an effective use of your resources.
Strange Bedfellows
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows, but it can also make for strained relationships with customers, vendors and others.
Shaking Your Money Tree
Does your business have a money tree you can shake when a little extra cash is needed? Every business should have one!
Perfekt!
Are you obsessed with getting everything just right? Do you do everything yourself because no one else can do it as well as you can? Do you believe that everything you do has to be absolutely perfect? Although striving for excellence is a good thing to do, demanding perfection in everything you do is not.
What to Do With Doo?
Diane Rossi was making a living cleaning up dog doo from backyards, apartment courtyards and other locations. She had managed to attract hundreds of clients, but faced the problem common to many service providers: She was limited in how much she could earn based on how many hours she could work.
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