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Beautiful and Effective Meetings!

How many of you have experienced meetings that were unproductive, boring and thought of as “get me out of here”? I am sure that everyone has a tale or two we could enjoy hearing.

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How To Get Things Done With a Master Task List

Today we are going to talk about How to Get Things Done with a Master Task List. Focusing on many responsibilities is a vital part of successfully running your business successfully. But, how do you know which tasks need to be completed immediately and which tasks can wait? You have so many things you need to do that it can be very overwhelming. If you focus on the less important tasks, while the most important go unnoticed or forgotten about, you could be sabotaging your overall success.

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Are You Focused on Winning in 2012?

Will you be focused on winning and moving towards it each day, celebrating milestones along the way? Or will you be playing to not lose, worrying about the past, talking constantly about what went wrong, stewing about how tough markets are these days, why you can’t do something, or why customers just won’t X, Y, Z, etc., etc.?

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What Makes Something Valuable?

Is It Worth Anything? Have you ever heard the saying, ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?’ Well, it speaks of value and how value is different depending on differing opinions, life experiences and ideas. Items obtain a sense of value for several reasons, here are some to consider: Historical Significance: An item’s historical relevance and significance can impact its value. Intrinsic Value: An item is actually valuable such as fine jewlery, gems, or rare pieces of art. Re-Sale Value: An item can be sold to others because of a demand in the market. Popularity Value: An item can…

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How To Build a Profitable Business

It’s never too soon to start saying thanks to your clients, vendors and referral sources for what they contribute to your business. Everyone loves to be appreciated and acknowledged, so start now and do something every month.

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New Year, New Day, Time for a New VA

Jan 06 2012
by Jennifer Rai
In Business Blog , Featured Articles , Productivity
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This is the year for “getting more done”, and everyone in business knows this is the key to success. Adding a Virtual Assistant, or VA, may be just what the doctor ordered for the New Year, especially if you want to succeed at a quicker rate, with less management of the minute.

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It’s Okay To Be Late

I messed up. I went to an event, made lots of connections and collected many business cards. When I got home I divided the cards into two piles. One large pile of people who would simply be added into my database and get an email that was already set up. The second pile was smaller and was the people who I had connected with personally during the event and needed to follow up with either a phone call or other specific information

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Phases of Innovation

In business, innovation is the act of applying knowledge to the creation of new processes, products, and services that have value for at least one of your stakeholder groups. Obviously, this requires more than just generating a slew of creative ideas.

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What Options Do Retirees Have for Personal Growth?

Twenty or so years ago, the question of personal growth in retirement hadn’t really entered the mainstream consciousness. To most people a generation ago, retirement was an ending, not a beginning. But as with everything else they’ve encountered, the Boomers are challenging that view of retirement.

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Top Time Management Strategies For 2012

What we can do is plan and do our work and activities within the time we’re given. Creating a time plan gives you more freedom and authority over your time. Knowing what your time is worth to you and allotting time for the things that matter most to you leads to higher levels of self-respect and will help you value and respect others.

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3 Steps to Starting the New Year on The Right Foot for Your Business

There’s no better time to take stock of your business than the time between the end of one year and the beginning of the next. It’s “out with the old, in with the new” and that includes out with anything that isn’t serving you or your business at the highest level, and in with what you want your business to look like.

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Think Big And Grow Your Business

Today, we are going to talk about Think Big and Grow Your Business. Contrary to common belief, most successful entrepreneurs aren’t born into money or possess above average IQ’s. Most of them are self-made and many of them do not even have college degrees.

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Developing Your Faith in Retirement

Many of us look forward to retirement as a sort of magical time of leisure without devoting much energy or thought to the specific challenges we might face once we get there. Among my clients, one of the biggest challenges I’ve seen is that of developing faith during the retirement years.

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Three Strategies for Winning in 2012

When it comes to winning, make sure everyone in your ecosystem gets it. Not just employees, but suppliers, vendors, partners, alliances, and even (and especially) your customers. When you’re a winner, it’s obvious to those who meet you and work with you.

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6 Tips for Setting Better Client Expectations

Dec 26 2011
by Howard Shore
In Business Blog
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Think for a moment about your last unhappy customer. Maybe it was a client who didn’t see the results they wanted or a customer who had a bad experience. Without getting defensive, think about the root of their dissatisfaction. Was it that you didn’t deliver what was promised or was what you promised unrealistic?

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Give Yourself A Promotion!

Struggling with getting it all done at home? Maybe you need a title change!Give Yourself A Promotion! Move away from just calling yourself a ‘mom’ or an ‘At-Home Mom’ and change your title to ‘Family Manager’. As a Family Manager you are responsible to manage your

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Christmas Dinner Conversation Starters

My Thanksgiving “fun facts” blog was a big hit with readers, generating a lot of buzz (who doesn’t want something that makes life, especially those large family gatherings, easier?). So with the annual visit from the dude in the red suit almost upon us, I thought it would be fun to do another round of dinner conversation starters and brain stretchers.

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Volunteering

Young people often volunteer to test out careers or to prove their worth to get paying jobs. When Boomers do it, the time to prove yourself has usually passed. It’s time to do! Even when retirees need to do some paid work to supplement their income, they may do some volunteering. This may be as informal as babysitting the grandchildren, leading the street club, working on a church or club committee, or as formal as committing to put in time for a cause.

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Test Your Innovation IQ

Everyone knows that innovation means coming up with the next great idea in your industry, right? Actually, there’s a lot more to it than that. Test your ability to separate innovation fact from fiction by answering the following questions true or false:

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Achieve More Goals the SMART Way!

Dec 08 2011
by Howard Shore
In Business Blog
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The first step in successfully executing a goal is to state it properly. You know your goal is well stated when anyone who reads it knows exactly what you are trying to accomplish and in what time frame. The better a person states the goal, the easier it is to create the action plan. An acronym commonly used for stating a goal properly is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistically high, and Time-based).

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