September, 2011

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Productivity Multiplier: Google Cloud Connect Now a Reality

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Productivity Bits. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. W e all know about Google as the search engine mogul and most know about Google Docs — an online version of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentations software. But if you’re like me, you are far more comfortable using Microsoft Office products. I know all the hot-keys, the short-cuts, and know my way around the software.

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Get More Clients Workshop

Office Organization Success

One of the biggest problems my clients tell me they have is getting more clients – or even getting their first client. The money in your business comes from working one-on-one with your clients, despite what some of these gurus will tell you about creating passive income, or setting up a membership site, or some other “hot” income generating activity.

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How to Build Credibility While Giving a Speech

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. You’ve signed on to be a conference presenter in your area of expertise. Eighty-four participants have looked at the blurb in the conference brochure and decided they’re interested in your subject matter. They don’t know too much about you, but the blurb has brought them through the door. How do you hang on to their attention and communicate your credibility as an authority in the subject?

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How To Cope With Chronic Illness on the Job

On The Job

I've worked with people who have a chronic illness, and I even have one myself -- migraine headaches. The thing about chronic illness is that you never know when you're going to have a bad day. If that were the case, it would be much easier to plan around. You could say to yourself: "Oops.looks like Oct. 21 a migraine is going to hit like a sledgehammer.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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More on Personal Tax Rates and Small Business Jobs

Small Business Labs

The Kauffman Foundation did a poll of the attendees at the recent Inc. 500 conference.  One of the questions they asked is "What is the biggest impediments to the growth of your business?"  As the results below show, taxes barely registers as a concern.   This is not to say these firms don't care about taxes - they do.  But these results highlight that issues beyond taxes are viewed as greater constraints by these fast growing firms.  &

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Moxie Tip 48: Framework

Virtual Moxie

Having high standards doesn't mean being lacking in compassion, or being super rigid. In fact, they give you the framework in which you can be extra compassionate and flexible--but never at your own expense.

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Session 2 - Wednesday, Sept 28, 2011

Office Dynamics

ENGAGED: Pursuing and Doing Work with Passion (Nedra Bailey). Nedra had the house pumped up and rocking as she took the stage with a few moments of rap music that shifted into Aretha’s “R-E-S-P-E-C-T” which was such a wonderful way to demonstrate working with passion and being engaged. Nedra asked the audience: “Are you an engaged administrative professional?

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Tips For Bloggers To Fight Writing Stress

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Guest Author. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. B log writing is a unique profession in itself. While some bloggers are only interested to educate their audience through their blogs, a good number of bloggers also use it as a source of earning money. For those who monetize their blogs, still the primary purpose remains the education of audience but optimization of their blogs in important search engines also becomes their priority.

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This bud’s for you, Mom

Loosely Speaking

I need to take moment for a personal aside to my mom, who’s had a heck of a spring and summer… Mom, to prepare for next spring color, I planted a bed of Shirley Poppies in your honor. I’ve always loved the crepe paper poppies for sale on Veteran’s Day, but never realized they were based on the same flower. The inside of the seed packet says, “This packet is dedicated to those men and women who fought for the allies during the two World Wars.” Just goes to show

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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How to Get Your Emails Opened and Acted Upon

Office Organization Success

My friend and email marketing expert, Linda Claire Puig, is hosting this valuable teleseminar on how to write the world’s hottest subject lines…this is one of the most important (and overlooked) skills you need to attract clients online and grow your business to 6-figure success. On this call you’ll learn: —> How to double the profits from your list with powerful subject lines. —> The #1 secret to avoid getting your emails reported as spam. —> The 7 biggest su

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7 Reasons to Create Information Products

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. It has never been easier to create and give away (or sell) information products. You’ve probably downloaded a few of these yourself as a giveaway on a website. They are also known as free reports, eBooks, digital products, audio downloads, and pretty much anything you can create and email as an offer. In fact, there are so many ways to distribute information products and use them as part of your marketing that they can help make your business a success.

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It’s more than only about the cloud

The Small Business Blog

I went to a Kleinwort Benson Entrepreneur Forum last night and invariably cloud computing came up as a discussion point. On the way home it got me thinking about what makes my customers special, is it all about cloud computing, do they get it or is it even important to them?

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Session 3 - Wednesday, Sept 28, 2011

Office Dynamics

ENERGIZED & FULFILLED: Activate Your Unique Value and Invigorate Your Career. (Jasmine Freeman). Ja smine gave an awesome, wonderful, challenging and thoughtful presentation. It was amazing that this was her first large-scale presentation! She challenged us to activate our unique value and invigorate our lives and careers. Jasmine captivated the audience by her use of graphic slides throughout the presentation.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Surviving the Holidays while Working

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Guest Author. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. W e have all been faced with the nightmarish truth that comes with office jobs: we might have to work the holidays. Most of us think of ways to get out of it, we try trading shifts, we play sick a week before and make it progress to pneumonia, or we just hide under our desks.

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Moxie Tip 47: Wobbly Floor

Virtual Moxie

You wouldn't move into a house that wasn't built on a solid foundation. Why work in a biz without one? If you feel unsure of your footing, your foundation is wobbly. Fix that to see greater success.

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Are Your "Best of" Lists Alienating Your Network?

On The Job

Lists are big in my business. Want to get someone to read your story? List 10 ways they can lose weight by consuming only pancakes, lima beans and Fresca for two weeks. Those are fun to read, aren't they? We don't always take them seriously, but they help sell magazines or newspapers or get people to click on a website. But there are some kinds of lists I don't like.

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Back from my trip to LA

Office Organization Success

I had a great weekend in LA with Suzanne Evans’ 10K Club members; I shared with them all kinds of systems and strategies that they can implement to increase their bottom line. And just this past week I also worked with one of my private clients on “tweaking” her free taste and subsequent drip-feed sequence. With a few simple changes we were able to create a free taste that provided her with several touches with her audience, and also created an upsell into her next level progra

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Stock Markets – Legalized Gambling – The Cancer In Our Sick Society

The Small Business Blog

When you listen to this guy during his BBC interview, it is easy to understand why you are losing you pension and savings. He claims that not governments rule the world, Goldman Sachs does.

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Google Wallet Shows the Future of Mobile Payments

Small Business Labs

Google Wallet is a software product designed to replace the physical credit cards most of us carry around and use to pay for things.  It's a version 1.0 product, which means it's limited and not that useful - at least yet.  But Google Wallet shows us the future of mobile payments - and that future is just a couple of years away. Currently Google Wallet, which requires a special NFC chip, is only supported by 1 phone (Sprint's Nexus S) and 1 credit card (Citibank Mas

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Learning from Failure: How Making Mistakes Can Change Your Life

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Guest Author. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. W e are often told that we should avoid failure at all costs. Of course, failing at something can be a very depressing experience. When you attempt an action and it doesn’t turn out how you wanted it to, it can cause a huge drop in your self-esteem. You may think that you are not good at anything, that you should never try again, that life has only in store for you a tangled web of further failings.

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Moxie Tip 45: On Time, Please!

Virtual Moxie

A Virtual Assistant has the right to… be paid in the time she requests. Require it, rather than adding late fees. They don't change behavior, they give permission to do something other than what you prefer. for a fee. Unfortunately, the fee won't cover your resentment, so just don't go there in the first place.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Authenticity in the Workplace

Eat Your Career

Back when I worked in banking , as the Assistant Manager of a branch, I wore a mask. No, not literally, you silly goose. After all, banks and masks don’t go well together if you know what I mean…But I hid all the same. I was hiding behind an image of who I thought I should be, who I thought others wanted me to be. I didn’t show the “real me” because I was scared.

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You Would Expect Executives to Know

Job Advice Blog

In America, people are generally very busy—especially higher-ups—and many of them are good at what they’re doing. You might expect they’d continue being good at it even after losing their jobs—that is, in terms of finding the next assignment. But as a career coach who deals with them daily, I find that my expectations are [.].

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Customer relations – Sometimes it’s the simplest things in life that can offer the best returns.

The Small Business Blog

This is my first post for The Small Business Blog and what I’ll be concentrating on in the posts to come is how we can build better relations with our customers thus raising our level of customer focus.

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Working Seniors

Small Business Labs

The AP has a good article summarizing some of the findings from the 2010 Census.  The focus is mostly on how hard the Great Recession has impacted young adults. But it also covers the growing workforce participation rate by seniors (ages 65+).  Key quote: "People age 65 and older tended to return to or stay in their jobs, accounting for the few employment gains in recent months.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha