Productivity
Seven Steps To A Clean & Clutter Free Office In The New Year
By Debbie Gilster
An organized and clean office is necessary for optimal productivity at work. The Wall Street Journal claims that an average executive wastes six weeks per year retrieving misplaced information due to messy desks and files. That can add up to a loss of 12.3% of earnings for managers making $75,000 a year. January [...]
Understanding Your Personal Operating Peak (POP) Will Dramatically Increase Your Work Performance!
By Acey Gaspard
Personal Operating Peak (POP) is a term I created that identifies the way you work best. Your POP can contribute to your success or failure. Simply becoming aware of it is all you need to change the way you work and dramatically improve your performance.
Here’s what it’s all about. There are generally two [...]
5 Steps to Deal With Overwhelm
By Marcia Francois
So many readers write in with this question: “how do I deal with overwhelm?”
A few weeks ago, I was dealing with my own overwhelm.
I had many meetings day after day after day (which means you get behind on the office stuff), my normal business activities plus I had to re-write a LOT of [...]
Seven Simple Strategies for Overcoming Writer’s Block RIGHT NOW
By Rochelle Melander
I used to think that writer’s block was just another word for procrastination. When someone whined about being blocked I assumed it was because they had ignored the cardinal rule of writing—in order to get anything done, you’ve got to put your butt in the chair and do the time.
I’d never really experienced [...]
5 Ways To Blog Without A Lot Of Work
By Lynette Chandler
1. Assemble a team.
Gather a few people with complimentary businesses to come together and contribute to the blog. Have everyone involved promote the blog as a condition of participation. This helps everyone involved because now, you get to reach each other’s customer group in a non invasive manner. Everyone gets a chance to [...]
7 Must Have Tools And Services For Small Businesses
By Tia Jones
Small business owners take note. Here is a list of seven must have tools and services that will solidify your foothold in the industry.
1. ADP. With an automatic deposit payroll system in tact, you eliminate the expenditure and waste of paper resources as well as the delay in payment resultant of utilizing the [...]
Top 10 Ways a Virtual Assistant (VA) Can Save Your Business Money
By VAnetworking member Erika Martlew
Most small businesses or entrepreneurs do not have a large budget for hiring additional staff when demands warrant it. Often times, a business owner may think it is more [...]
How to Create and Benefit from a Business Downtime List
By Acey Gaspard
Keeping busy with the right business task can be productive and rewarding. Sometimes you’re so busy running your business that you can’t keep up.
Other times you have nothing to do and yet, at times, you just don’t want to work on your current issue.
Your business tasks fluctuate, and that’s something you’ll have [...]
Starting A Home Based Business: Periods Of Delight And Despair
By Kirk Bannerman
Now I know that it’s just a normal part of the game… the path to developing a home based business will have numerous high points and low points.
Back a few years ago, when I was starting my home based business, no one ever told me about the emotional highs and [...]
‘Help! I’m lazy!’
By Mark Silver
A new client just said this to me the other day: “My problem is that I’m lazy- I just can’t seem to stay focused, or get started on doing the important things.”
It’s no wonder he thought this- all the messages coming at us from popular culture tell us that if [...]
