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Spring Cleaning

Vera RaposoVera Raposo Written by Vera Raposo
on May 19th, 2009 / 7 Comments / Print this

Don’t you just love spring? It’s a time for new beginnings just about everywhere. There are new flowers and green grass. Birds are chirping and windows can finally be opened to air out the house. These are times for getting out the cobwebs that have gathered after yet another winter.
It’s also a great time for [...]

How Many Assistants Do You Need?

Alice SebaAlice Seba Written by Alice Seba
on May 8th, 2009 / 5 Comments / Print this

One sure sign that it’s time to seek help in your business is that you are no longer as productive as you once were because you are trying to do too much. Once you’ve come to the point that help is needed the next step is to determine just how much. You can find your [...]

5 Tips for a Better Outsourcing Experience

Alice SebaAlice Seba Written by Alice Seba
on April 15th, 2009 / 5 Comments / Print this

Outsourcing can be a valuable practice for many small business owners. It frees up time allowing them to handle the important areas of their business. Those areas include ones the owner truly needs to focus on. Outsourcing allows someone else, a paid assistant or other professional, to handle areas such as email, bookkeeping, etc. However, [...]

Your Place Or Mine?

Ed RoachEd Roach Written by Ed Roach
on March 22nd, 2009 / 2 Comments / Print this

What do you think is the brand of the community that you live in? From what you know, does it have difficulty attracting investment? Do your city officials keep changing slogans in a desperate attempt to see what will stick, thinking fancy advertising is the ticket to prosperity? Because of poor brands many communities are [...]

20 Outsourceable Tasks for Small Business Owners

Alice SebaAlice Seba Written by Alice Seba
on March 15th, 2009 / 7 Comments / Print this

There are tons of things you can outsource in your business and every business is unique. Here’s a starter list of 20 common tasks outsourced by small business owners, just like you.
1. Article Writing
2. Blog Post Writing
3. Article Submission
4. PLR Rewriting
5. Newsletter Creation
6. Affiliate Management
7. Website Creation & Maintenance
8. Blog Installation & Customization
9. Customer Service
10. Video Creation
11. Adding Content to Your Website
12. Project Management
13. Accounting/Bookkeeping
14. Graphic Design
15. Search Engine [...]

Have you indentified your employees as a key target audience?

Vera RaposoVera Raposo Written by Vera Raposo
on February 16th, 2009 / 4 Comments / Print this

Have you identified your employees as a key target audience?
Guest post by Bill Hogg, http://www.billhogg.ca/
Much has been written about the need for communicating with employees.
People are often put in charge of internal communications and spend their time creating newsletters and memos that get sent far and wide informing folks about what is going on in [...]