Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After falling by 7% in 2020 due to the pandemic, the number of independent workers (freelancers, independent contractors, gig workers, etc.) rose to 51.1 million in 2021, an unprecedented 34% increase. This is the key finding from MBO Partners 2021 State of Independence research study. This is the 11th year this study has been conducted. As the study chart below shows (click to enlarge), the number of full-time independent workers increased by 25%.

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Tips From T. Marie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Congrats for deciding to start a work from home business! But before you quit your day job, make sure your website is up to par and ready to attract clients. Your website is the introduction of your business to the world. You want to make it as easy as possible for prospective clients or customers to understand who you are, what you do, and how you can help them with their needs.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The pandemic-driven seismic shift to remote led to continued strong growth in the number of American digital nomads in 2021. The MBO Partners 2021 State of Independence research study found that 15.5 million American workers currently describe themselves as digital nomads, increasing 42% from 2020 and 112% from the pre-pandemic year 2019 (click on the study chart below to enlarge).  The main reason for the growth is that traditional job holders have been unleashed from their offices and ma

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Close your eyes and imagine stepping onstage to deliver your first TED Talk. It’s one of the most important moments of your career… only you forgot your pants. Feel that weight in your stomach? Good. That same wide-eyed, what have I done? nightmarish dread creeps over every entrepreneur soon after the euphoria of escaping the 9-to-5 world wears off.

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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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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

How Assistants can learn to improve business processes In this post, we will look at how Assistants can learn to improve business processes. Have you ever taken time to analyse your business processes, or do you just ‘do’ them without thinking? Do you ever notice any of your teams’ processes [.].

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Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Never spin a story. Spinning is absolutely the same as lying. Yet, it’s not untruthful to uncover and expose the other side of, well, anything. It’s the classic glass half empty or glass half full analogy; the glass may be half empty (truth), but it’s equally true to say that the glass is half full. And it’s not spinning to share the truth that’s more in alignment with who you are as a human.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For many years, as a career coach, I offered resume writing services. And I don’t mind telling you that I was a darned fine resume writer. But I no longer offer these services—and I want to take a few minutes to explain why and to help those of you who might be considering working with a resume writer in the future. The first thing you should know is this: Many (if not most) resume writers are not skilled in the craft.

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Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Moment House is a live streaming, interactive social media platform for digital entertainment. Newly launched in 2020, Moment House has produced over 700 concerts, called “moments,” selling one million tickets through its platform. Each unique digital experience can generate tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for creators who can reach audience members from all over the world.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Creative problem-solving strategies separate forward-moving solutions from quick fixes. Truly an art, creative strategies address challenges by guiding you to see challenges in a whole new light. Can crisis equal opportunity? With these 6 creative ways to solve a problem, the answer is often a resounding yes. 1. Six Step Problem-Solving Model. Some problems seem overwhelming in their complexity.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Feeling undervalued and how to make a change One of the many challenges that I often hear from Assistants is that their Executives and the wider organisation does not understand the role and the work that Assistants undertake. Assistants are renowned for getting on with their tasks and ensuring everything [.].

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Keep your focus on what you want and WHO you want in your practice. If you don’t know, or you don’t pay attention, how can you reasonably expect to manifest it? The post Moxie Tip #10: Goal! appeared first on AssistU.

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Ideas.Ted

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. The Great Resignation — a tidal wave of people quitting their jobs in search of better opportunities — continues to march on through many organizations and may very well strike yours.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Date : Wednesday, September 29. Time : 11:00 AM Pacific / 12:00 PM Mountain / 1:00 PM Central / 2:00 PM Eastern. So you want to advance your career? Better get in line…you’re not the only one! Of course, if you’d rather jump to the front of the line, there are certain things you can do to position yourself as the perfect person for that promotion. Earning your next big career move requires more than just wanting it.

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A business strategy is a company’s roadmap for achieving its market goals. It introduces a set of principles that shape a company’s priorities, decisions, and actions. Simply put, it outlines how your business will compete with a product or a service in a particular market. It is not, however, the actual tactics you will leverage to execute your business strategy.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Burnout is a common topic these days. Whether you’ve hit the wall juggling pandemic childcare while working from home or just have a general feeling of yuck about the world, burnout has become a familiar companion in our lives. But if we ignore how we’re feeling and just keep trying to push through, we can reach the point where we just don’t have any energy left to keep going.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

How to keep emotions under control in confrontational situations While working as an Assistant and in the early days of running Practically Perfect PA, if I could avoid confrontation, I would. It didn't serve me well. Why? Because when I did have to speak to someone about a difficult subject, [.].

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Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In your virtual assistance practice, having an intake process which, in part shares how you work, and that also collects information about the client (contacts, preferences, systems, etc.) so that you can provide quality care is smart to have. Recently, I heard from a VA who said her new client refused to complete the part of the intake that would have given the VA important information needed to do some of the work she was going to be doing.

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Ideas.Ted

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Good Anxiety is the title of the new book from NYU neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki PhD — but it’s one that will surprise those of us who think of anxiety as strictly bad news. However, through her work, Suzuki has come to find, as she writes, that “anxiety can shift from something we try to avoid and get rid of to something that is both informative and beneficial.”.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

By now, you may have realized that your home-based business is not exactly living up to expectations. You might be wondering why this is and what you can do about it. Well, the truth is that there are several reasons for this, and if you’re willing to take on some changes, then it’s possible to turn things around. Invest in a Virtual Address.

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’ve launched a successful business, it’s because you’ve mastered the basics of entrepreneurship, marketing, customer acquisition, and team management. While this is more than enough to continue to operate your business at its current level, what should you do if you aspire to scale your business? Figuring out how to do it isn’t easy because it means revamping your company’s processes and systems and multiplying its output.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Strengthening your emotional resilience takes practice. That’s because mental fortitude—the ability to bounce back from adversity—isn’t necessarily innate. Circumstances shape how we react to adversity. Over time, we can pick up bad practices that drain us of our strength and energy. Thankfully, we can break some of these bad habits with positive routines.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It took about 11 years until a project started on some mailing list after the big 2008 crisis stormed our planet. I’m not backing up from my words, it literally disrupted the whole concept of money, created countless millionaires and billionaires, forced states to adjust their legislation just to make sense of it and created. Read more. The post Bitcoin Is Now Legal Tender In A Country On Planet Earth appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

One of the hallmarks of a terrific and successful Virtual Assistant is not only having great ethics, but modeling them for her clients. Isn’t leading great? :). The post Moxie Tip #13: Model Your Ethics appeared first on AssistU.

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Ideas.Ted

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. For leaders at any level, the single best way to grow is to lead and then get feedback. It is to act and interact with your team and learn what can be improved upon through feedback.

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Go Burrows

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Do you ever feel alone in your role as an assistant? Have you ever experienced dehumanizing moments as people seem to look through you, to your executive? In this episode, I share an excerpt from my audiobook, The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant , where I talk about the loneliness assistants can feel, as well as the dehumanization of our role.

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

When it comes to building a successful business that’s set up for long-term success, you have to look beyond products, sales, and marketing and consider the “engine” that keeps it all running. In other words, you have to focus on the people who make it happen. What is Workplace Culture? Workplace culture is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it mean?

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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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Success

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The morning was like any other , the monotony of life so quickly forgotten: wake up, shower, coffee, drive to work, rinse, repeat. Such was the first hour or so of Lizeth Morales’ daybreak on Feb. 27, 2012. At 29, she was the epitome of the American Dream, having come to the United States from Peru as a child, Morales was a college graduate, a homeowner living in Garfield, New Jersey, who held a sales and development management position at Blinds To Go.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By Bonnie Low-Kramen. The pandemic has hit everyone hard and when it comes to finances, and it has hit women especially hard as many had to leave the workforce either temporarily or permanently. Plus, life isn’t cheap, with planned and unplanned expenses, some days it may feel like your household finances are going downhill fast. You may not know where to turn for trustworthy advice.

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Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Call them sample projects, test projects, or anything else you like…as a professional virtual assistant, should you do them if asked by a potential client? My opinion is a big, fat nope. And it’s not only because you deserve to be paid for your work, which you clearly do. It’s also because there isn’t any universe in which professionals are asked for a “test” or “sample” of the work being requested.

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Ideas.Ted

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“Lasso of truth” is part of Dr. Jen Gunter’s Twitter bio. And that’s what the board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist aims to be, whether it’s in her podcast ( Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter ) , books , social media posts or newsletter — to correct and dispel myths, confusion and crackpot theories and products and illuminate evidence-based research and information.

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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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