Eco-Office Gals

APRIL 4, 2011

Let’s get this party started! Earth Day (Month) is here and Eco-Office Gals wants to get as many people as possible on board to grow a little greener. If you’ve been wanting to, trying to, thinking about growing a little greener there’s no better time to do it then now! We don’t want to make you go it alone either. We have once again reached out to our great green cyberspace friends to bring you green products to Green Your World!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 22, 2011

Do you know when you are stressed?  Do you know what you can do to eliminate your stress?  Not everyone can answer those questions.  Small doses of stress can help you perform well under pressure and even motivate you to do your best.  However, when you are consistently pushed and in "emergency mode" your mind and body will pay the price.

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Productivity Bits

APRIL 21, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. I am proud to say that this guest post is from Erik Calonius, an author, former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a writer for Fortune. His latest book is “ Ten Steps Ahead “ I n one of your recent posts, Marlon, you advised your readers to keep a notebook with them at all times.

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 19, 2011

I’ve talked, at different points in time, about how certain business behaviors can put you on—and keep you on—a gerbil wheel in constant motion. This weekend, especially, I was noticing how many tweets and FB updates and blog posts I saw that make it sound like constant motion is THE thing to work toward.THE way to get a successful life. They don’t say that, exactly, but I'm not sure whatever other message a person can take away from things like: 1.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Job Advice Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Still wary of entering the Twitterverse? Don’t be. It’s time to overcome your reluctance/aversion, banish all doubt and make your triumphant entrance on what is THE world stage for up-to-the-minute information sharing. And by “sharing&# I don’t mean what you had for breakfast today. That’s old school: a myth still occasionally circulated by people on [.].

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 4, 2011

Interesting academic study on Twitter from Yahoo Research.  The bottom line of the study is Twitter is dominated by a small number of users and much more of broadcast medium than a social network. Key quote from the study: “We find a striking concentration of attention on Twitter—roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users—where the media produces the most information, but celebrities are the most followed.”.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 27, 2011

No matter if you are a one-person show or you have a business that has many employees, unless you have business processes in place, you may find the business growing "out of control."  The activity of organizing and writing down key activities and when they need to get done is critical to your ability to grow your business and thrill your customers.

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Productivity Bits

APRIL 14, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. This guest post is from Ulrich Riedel. Ulrich is the creator of Organisemee – a web-based collaborative task management application. His 16 years of experience managing medium and large-scale business processes and IT projects have taught him a lot about achieving high levels of productivity.

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 5, 2011

This chance taking is something some of you probably do pretty easily; so second nature that you may not even think of what you do as anything special. But for those of you who insulate, who don't reach out, who get into your comfort zone and stay there, this post is really for you. In the past couple weeks, I've seen just a HUGE amount of growth in my coaching clients and their practices as a direct result of their taking chances.

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 13, 2011

While working at a bank many years ago, I approved a $10,000 fraudulent transaction. When the FBI showed me pictures of the man who had pulled a fast one on me, I didn’t even recognize him. In fact, the whole situation was kind of a blur. At some point, they pulled the footage from the branch security cameras and, as I flipped through photos of myself smiling and giving what appeared to be excellent customer service to a man on the FBI’s watch list, I could hardly believe my naivety.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 17, 2011

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Mentors are particularly effective for young, inexperienced entrepreneurs in need of guidance and advice. They can help you develop a better understanding of the risks and challenges that you are facing. 2. Don’t be afraid of taking a radical approach to business.

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Eco-Office Gals

APRIL 18, 2011

With Global Warming having shocking effects around the globe, do your bit to help the environment by keeping your workplace green. When it comes to wastage, offices can be one of the main culprits. With such busy schedules and deadlines to meet, saving the environment can be one of the last things on a worker’s mind. Simple tasks such as reprinting documents unnecessarily and repetitively boiling the kettle all have their negative effect on the big wide world.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 8, 2011

" I'm so stupid!  Why didn't I think of that?  I have so much to do that I can't think straight! " Do you ever feel that way?  If you do, you are not alone.  Many people use negative "self talk" to justify why they are not getting the things done that they think they should.  You start in a state of overwhelm and rather than getting out of that state, you start traveling down a bad path.

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Productivity Bits

APRIL 12, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. This is a quick review of Erik Calonius ‘ latest book, “ Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us “ Erik Calonius is a former foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a writer for Fortune. He collaborated recently on the best-selling Predictably Irrational.

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 26, 2011

At first, I was going to post this graphic I made for Love Lavishly and leave it at that--thinking it teaches enough moxie all by itself with no need for comment. And then, on a call with my Ultimate VA Members, one of them shared that she has a client she loves, but whose work has become horribly boring. She went on to say that she loves the relationship (which has been strong and good for quite some time), that she didn't want to leave it, and that she doesn't know what to do.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 5, 2011

It's taken a long time, but the small business economy is finally shaking off the Great Recession and showing solid gains.  A couple of data points: - The overall job market is picking up with March's job report showing a gain of 216,000 jobs, and more importantly a gain of 230,000 private sector jobs.  Great quote from an AP story on the numbers : "We are clearly seeing a breakout in the labor market," said Paul Zemsky, the head of asset allocation at ING Investment

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 23, 2011

Looking at business of all sizes, you can’t escape thinking about how vulnerable business is at different growth phases – some sizes seem to be more stable than others. Micro businesses seem to be very stable because there is limited change from month to month, overheads are low, they are often run from home.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 15, 2011

One area where business owners are seeking more and more support in is that of social networking – they find it overwhelming and don’t know what to do, so engage the services of a social media expert to manage it for them. Whilst on the surface this strategy sounds great there is one major flaw with it – social networking is a way for YOU to engage with your audience and networks so that they can get to know YOU, not your assistant!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 1, 2011

Your desktop and frankly any other horizontal surface are the hardest places to keep clear.  Bills to pay, to-do lists, event invites, magazines you have been meaning to read, orders you need to fill, and the list goes on and on.  Often, we keep things "out" - either spread around or stacked - on our desk and other surfaces because we don't want to forget to do something that we have deemed important or don't want to forget.

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Productivity Bits

APRIL 7, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. How to deal with productivity killers? Just do whatever we need to do to achieve our productivity goals without letting up on the quality of our work. In any circumstances, that’s easier said than done. There are many reasons why dealing with productivity killers is not easy. [ Recommended Book: " Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 12, 2011

Each fall, AssistU has its Homecoming.a celebration of our community. Last year, it was in Reston, VA. One of the super-fun things we did during the weekend was a private twilight tour of the DC monuments. It was such a good experience that when a beloved said he'd never seen the monuments, I suggested we do a very similar tour. We visited the Lincoln, WWII, Iwo Jima, FDR.so many wonderful monuments and memorials.

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Eco-Office Gals

APRIL 17, 2011

Join The Nature Conservancy in their 2011 Earth Day campaign, called Picnic for the Planet.They ‘re asking people to celebrate the planet by rounding up some friends and taking the planet out to lunch. They already have a number of meetups going on around the globe; just visit our map to find a picnic near you or see how you can start your own.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 19, 2011

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Mentors are particularly effective for young, inexperienced entrepreneurs in need of guidance and advice. They can help you develop a better understanding of the risks and challenges that you are facing. 2.

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 7, 2011

Whenever I’m explaining the concept of personal branding , I always end up talking about Jerry Maguire. Yes, before Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch and became the perpetual butt of Hollywood’s joke, he starred in one of my all-time-ever favorite movies. He played the title role, Jerry Maguire, a sports agent who has a breakdown breakthrough that leads to him leaving his cushy job and heading out on his own.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 15, 2011

"Can't you just tell me what tools to buy? I just don't have time to DO anything." She was frusterated when I talked with her on the phone.  Busy business owners often are.  However, there are no "magic beans" that you can buy to make more time and often buying more tools just clutters up your space.  If you are not willing to take action, it does not matter what you buy.  You will likely still be in the same position a year from now.  Tough

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Productivity Bits

APRIL 19, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. This guest post is from John, a staff member for Virtual Business Lifestyle (VBL), a virtual lifestyle blog owned by the Total Business Outsourcing firm Live2Sell Group of Companies which is based in the Philippines. VBL is an authority in the Virtual Assistant business.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 14, 2011

Running a successful business is all about creating systems and processes, particulalry if you do the same thing over and over again. As soon as you do an activity/thing/step more than once, you need to create a system for it. For example: if you find you keep sending the same email again and again, create an email template – it’s very easy to set up in Outlook and is a huge timesaver (I’m all for that!).

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Eco-Office Gals

APRIL 20, 2011

The internet is a buzz with Earth Day Happenings including the Green My World Earth Day Giveaway ! I hope you are leaving tons of great green tips, sharing the products you hope to win, and sharing the giveaway on all your social networks! As we come to the final hours, lets give you a few more ways to enter! Below you will find some green tips and retweets to share on Twitter or Facebook.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

When you look at products like WinWeb’s Online Office Suite you realize that it provides you with far more than just small business cloud computing software or Software as a Service (SaaS), it is actually a complete small business IT “Infrastructure as a Service&# (IaaS).

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Eat Your Career

APRIL 19, 2011

When I was in college, I spent a year in England as part of my University’s study abroad program. What an amazing experience! And, while I brought back a lot of weird slang and an unusual faux accent (which thankfully disappeared quickly), the one British-ism I still refer to regularly is “Mind the Gap.”. You see, the London underground system (which they call the “tube”) has a looping announcement for passengers to “please mind the gap,” referring to the space between the train and the platform

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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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