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'The Forbes article Survey Says Americans are Losing Their Appetite for McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King covers a study showing that consumers - and especially Millennials - are choosing fast casual restaurants over fast food places. Key quote: Most Millennials surveyed (89%) seek out fast, casual food they deem healthier, tastier and “more customized” than fast food, and they’re willing to pay more for it, the survey revealed.
'What is a launch campaign? It’s a step-by-step, repeatable process, that you can implement whenever you want to launch a brand-new product or program, or re-launch a current product or previous program. It’s much harder to sell something simply by sticking it out there and hoping people will buy it; when you have a launch system in place you will make more sales.
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'This month, I talked with the delightful Gayle Bu, who''s been in business as a VA for more than a decade! I hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking together! Meet Gayle Bu. .
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'A few years I organised afternoon tea at T hreadneedles Hotel for my department’s Christmas party. It was just a small, fairly conservative group so afternoon tea in a beautiful setting was the perfect choice. We sat in the lobby area of the hotel, which might not sound very ground but you haven’t seen the Threadneedles Hotel lobby! It is stunning.
'Back in 2006 we reported that craft brewers - also known as microbrewers - had captured almost 6% of U.S. beer sales, up from effectively 0% a decade or so earlier. We revisited the industry in 2010 and found craft brewers 2009 revenue share of the U.S. beer market had grown to about 7%. Since 1% of the U.S beer market is worth about $1 billion (Americans drink a lot of beer), this was strong growth - especially given the country was in the midst of the Great Recession.
'I get a lot of questions from business owners around whether they should get a merchant account or just stick with Paypal. I actually prefer the flexibility of a merchant account as my primary payment processor because it not only allows a client/customer to pay by credit card (without having to go through Paypal’s process to do that) but it also offers you more options in terms of recurring billing features (think membership programs ) and taking client’s credit card payments over
'There’s a new breed of start-up – they’re younger, more optimistic and ready to innovate. This year’s DNA of an Entrepreneur Report – which explores the challenges of small business owners, along with what makes them tick – reveals that the recession has had a big impact on the way start-ups operate, leading to a… Read the full article here: Generation Recession: a small business evolution on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.
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'I''m just back from nine days with the AssistU VAs. Throughout my time with them, I overheard conversations and was involved in others that were about growth, working smart, having high standards, learning plans, profitability.but it wasn''t until I sat down this afternoon to work through some email that''s come in in my absence that I heard about burnout--and that wasn''t from an AssistU VA, but it made me want to write about it anyway because if one person is dealing with it, many are.
'As assistants most of us will interact with our organisation’s Executive team on a daily if not hourly basis. Your manager may well be part of the Executive team. If that is the case you will have even more phone calls, meetings and general engagement with other Directors and top-level members of staff. It can be a little scary dealing with the people that run your organisation, especially if they are prickly characters or highly demanding.
'It's nice every so often to get back to basics. Openview's article David vs. Goliath: Your Startup's Guide to Giant-Killing does just that by describing 6 advantages small businesses have relative to bigger competitors. These are: You're closer to your customers. You can turn on a dime. You can tightly focus on a niche market.
'With the Labor Day weekend upon us, I shall be enjoying a nice, long weekend. We have lots of jobs to do around the house, and we’ll also enjoy our last weekend at the pool before it closes. I always love learning new software and programs, and this week I’ve been taking some training from the guys at Premium Web Cart on how to use their system.
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'Here’s a question for you. When was the last time you hired a service provider, say an attorney or a mechanic and you were able to set their schedule for them? Or had them drop everything and come running every time you called? My guess is—probably never. When you deal with other businesses, you abide by their policies, their normal hours of operation, and you respect that, right?
'We must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. For me , that''s the most powerful part of the quotation. As a VA, there''s a whole big wide workd out there waiting to know you and to thrill about what you can do. But none of that will have any value if you don''t first cultivate yourself, and set your heart right. The reason?
'Everyone who works in and around London knows the ExCeL London Exhibition and Conference center. It is a bit of an institution and like most places that seem to be have been around forever most people will associate it with just one thing. In the case of ExCeL it is huge exhibitions and conventions – like the Boat Show, the Wedding Fair and Comic Con.
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.
'I was shopping recently in Walnut Creek, an affluent east bay suburb of San Francisco. An upscale shopping destination, Walnut Creek has the usual array of high end stores and boutiques. But what caught my eye were two stores that don't actually sell things. Instead, they are meant to be places where potential customers can learn about and experience products and services.
'My recent free teleclass on 4 Key Systems made me realize just how much technology there is to understand and how it can really help you automate your online business, especially when it comes to automating your marketing. On the training I just touched on four key areas, but really there’s so much more. In today’s article I want to share with you some of the areas where automation can really help you grow your business.
'Many small businesses will handle their personnel administration processes, such as attendance tracking, contracts management, appraisals in a make-do and highly distributed system of Excel files, word files, document scans etc… This is not usually a conscious decision; it’s more likely that it has evolved that way through necessity as a result of the time… Read the full article here: Should You Be Using a HR Software System in Your Business?
'by Originally posted 2009-10-15 17:28:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Urgent sounds important, but it's really not. It may be important to someone else, but your involvement is often just a waste of time. Tasks that are urgent require you to act quickly and that means you don't spend time thinking about whether you should do them. They're also often the result of poor planning (or no planning) and bad time management.
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'I remember a few years ago, I was watching D get his ears candled. Shahnaz, our wonderful esthetician, mentioned that I could do it, and I thought, "Hmmm, sure looks simple enough." But as I sat there and watched, I had this thought: Emulating is one thing, knowing is another. I certainly could do it. But I''d be emulating what I saw Shahnaz do. The gentle back massage, the pressure applied along the underside of the cheek-bone… all easy enough to do.
'It’s that time of year again: the first robins and reindeers are infiltrating the shop displays and all over the country bosses are delegating the task of organising their company’s Christmas ‘do’ to their thinly-stretched assistants. While planning your own party can be a lot of fun, the job of corporate event organising carries some hefty responsibilities.
'For the first time since the government started keeping these stats, more than half of adult Americans are single. There are about 125 million single Americans, which is just a bit over half of all Americans aged 16 and older. Bloomberg's Is Everyone Single? nicely covers this shift, including providing the chart below. It shows the steady climb from 37% of adult Americans being single in 1976 to 50.2% today. The percentage of "never marrieds" has also risen f
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'“I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.” – Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computers It is surprising how often a business… Read the full article here: Strategy – Business Quote of the Week on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.
'by Originally posted 2007-10-24 10:30:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Two big reasons I love email: I can send a quick reply or request or, more likely, a whole slew of them. Not that I have anything against conversations, but sometimes I really need to get through a list of to do’s and email is the quickest way to dispatch them. I can send email on my own schedule.
'I''ve recently met several VAs who, used to having to ask permission before taking action in the corporate world, have carried that behavior over into their VA practices. Stop it. Just stop. It''s unattractive in the extreme, and isn''t likely to add one positive thing to your business. Think—then, you were an employee. Perhaps you didn''t see that you didn''t have to be a bootlicker, and you did what you believed you needed to do.
'I have moved around quite a bit – job wise and city wise – over the years so I have a lot of experience working with recruitment agents. In fact a recruitment agent has found me all of my previous jobs and on the whole my experiences have been mixed. I’ve worked with some fantastic agents that really do want to place you in the best role and I’ve met agents that have barely glanced over my CV before recommending me for highly unsuitable roles.
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