Spice Up Your Blog Posts with Photos
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big advocate of having a blog for your business. It’s a great way to create content for your newsletters and social media to engage your readers, while simultaneously giving your website a boost from a search engine optimization standpoint. People love visuals and by using images […]
Clear Your Desk to Start Fresh
I coach many small business owners and a recurring theme seems to be around getting organized enough to make time to actually be able to do the things we put on their action plans. Part of the problem lies with coming into your office and seeing piles of papers and projects spread over your desk. […]
The Art of Hiring Smart – 8 Steps to a First Class Hiring Process
Free Webinar – March 30, 2012 “Did you know that 63% of all hiring decisions are made in the first 4.3 minutes of the interview. The rest of the interview is mostly used to justify the decision already made. Most interviews are “wandering conversations” that don’t focus on the most critical aspects of a job. […]
How Do You Look On The Small Screen?
How important is it for your business to look good on the mobile web? Let’s check out a few facts: • Over 85% of mobile phones can access the mobile web • Mobile web usage doubled last year and will double again this year • In the US, 25% of mobile web users are mobile-only […]
Going Paperless (or nearly paperless)
Huge filing cabinets and files stuck in one location no longer serve many of us as business owners. Space is at a premium and we would like to keep our offices as streamlined as possible. Maybe even more importantly in our mobile society we want (or need) to be able to access our files from […]
Do you know where your target market is?
I suggest that every business owner spend some time getting clear about exactly what target market you serve or wish to serve witht the products or services your business offers. You may serve multiple target markets. It is important to gain clarity about what specific groups of people you want to sell to and how […]
January is Work ON Your Business month
January is an especially good time to work ON your business. For many companies, business tends to slow down in January. Whether or not your business is seasonally slow in the winter time, there is usually a lull right after the holidays. Many consumers of your goods and services may have spent a lot of […]
10 Tips for a Successful 2012
Get your business off to a successful start for 2012! In reflecting on my own goals for 2012 and what I hear in talking with business owners every week, I jotted down 10 tips for a successful 2012. If you work on all or even some of them this year, you will make a positive […]
Kick Off 2012 with On Target 10 Week Intensive
Get out of the day to day and get intentional about how you run your business! This 10 Week Program delivered via live webinar series will get you off to a focused start to achieve your goals for 2012 and beyond, AND give you the tools and action steps to implement all year! I brainstormed […]
Need to Structure Time for a Project? Pomodoro!
Ok, what’s this about Pomodoro? I thought it was a tomato! Well, yes pomodoro the Italian word for tomato, but Pomodoro is also a time management technique. The way the name came about is that the author of The Pomodoro Technique, Francesco Cirillo used a tomoto shaped kitchen timer to time his productivity periods for […]