Did You Make Time For You?

All of the time management ideas we've discussed this week can be applied to your personal life. Entrepreneurs have to be even more mindful of how we use or time because we are the owners, managers, and employees or our own businesses. It becomes more of a task to manage our personal lives because we get to not only design how are businesses run but how we run our personal activities. How many of you have found yourselves totally exhausted after a weeks long of hustling and racing to finish...

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I Am The Master of My Universe

Organize your environment  So you are probably asking what does organizing my desk have to do with time management? Well it has a lot to do with it especially if you spend a lot of time trying to find something in those piles of paperwork. Basically everything you need to function throughout the day should have it’s own place. Pens should be in a holder, paperwork neatly organized in a tray, and those thousands of sticky notes all over your desk should eventually make it into the one notebook...

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Time's a wastin’

To be good at time management, you must identify those tasks that are time wasters. I recently read an article that mentioned a time management theory by David Heinemeier Hansson, an entrepreneur extraordinaire, where he recommends that you should plan to do the most work of your day within 50% of your day rather than plan to complete 8 hours of work in a day. He says we are fooling ourselves if we think in our 8 hour work day we complete 8 hours of work. He suggest if we plan to complete...

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My Plate Runneth Over

So it is said that we all receive the same amount of time during the day. Some of us are wise users of our time and some of us are not so good with minding our time portion of the day. Are you a good manager of your time or do you find yourself running like a racehorse throughout the day racing to catch up to tasks and projects? Time management , as defined by wikipedia, is the process or act of planning and exercising control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially...

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Be Direct with Your Incentives

Promoting your business is an essential activity to a thriving business. A focused and effective marketing plan to promote one’s business can easily double their customer base and I do hope you will try these 5 ways you can be successful with promoting monthly incentives to grow your business: Give away a free sample  Update your marketing materials  Get creative with promotional products  Launch a direct-mail campaign  Start a client appreciation program  Launch...

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Get creative with promotional products

We've all seen those pens and tote bags embossed with the company logo. You may have also purchased some for your business to pass out at networking events or conferences. Although the thought of promotional products may seem “cheesy”, these ‘uniform delights’ are still a necessity to your business marketing mix. They come in handy to aid in the the launch of any new product or service and can help make that launch a memorable one for the customer and potential client. Offering promotional...

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Update your marketing materials

Update your marketing materials is success tip #2 of 5 ways to Promote Monthly Incentives to Grow Your Business. Although we do business in a digital world, never underestimate the power of good marketing tools like business cards, brochures, and flyers. You’d be surprised at how much they are needed especially when most of your marketing is word-of-mouth. What would you do if your smartphone suddenly decided to act up when you wanted to show off your new fancy mobile designed website? That...

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Retain Customers with Simplicity. Promote Monthly Incentives

Plan. Run. Succeed.  Running a successful business incentive program is all part of running a successful business. In fact, when designed properly, a monthly incentive program can be one of the most powerful business tools available to marketing a business today. According to the experts, the return on investment (ROI) from a properly ran incentive program can boost incremental sales as well as market share. Got some products that need some help moving? Word-of-mouth not traveling fast...

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Get them Talking

You deserve the reward of having loyal and satisfied customers. When they take it upon themselves to tell everyone about the excellent work that you do, new customers want to become clients with ease and your business marketing efforts won’t be as hard tasked making a successful business. Before scoring any testimonials, commit yourself to not only providing the best possible product/service, but also you need to strive to go above and beyond your customer’s expectations each and every time....

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Untapped Marketers

If you are a business owner, builder, or even a newbie to enterprise, you’ll soon learn how powerful testimonials are to your business. Testimonials come from all aspects of your business like employees, customers, team members, or board members. Basically all that either use your company’s products or services should be “testifying” about how great (or bad) their experience has been. Your satisfied customers, employees, team members, etc. are an untapped marketing asset that can give a boost...

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It Takes a Village of Customers to Raise a Business. TESTIFY!!

 So you have this exciting business opportunity.  You've been telling your friends and family, "Hey!  I've just started this new and exciting venture and I would like for you to check it out."  You begin your journey learning the products and/or services and you can't wait to get them out there in front of someone.  Guess what?  You get your first sale!  Hip, Hip, Hooray!! You are on fire!  You tell a few more, and a few more, and a couple more sign...

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Start. Complete. Repeat.

This week we touched on the importance of setting goals in our business as well as in our personal lives. Within our day-to-day planning we can plan out what we’d like to experience, set a course to achieve it, and maybe share with others how we did it so they too can do the same. Getting a better understanding on what a goal is and setting ourselves up for success to achieve it made us realize the possibilities of some loopholes that could present itself and what to prepare for if plan A doesn't...

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Go in The Direction You Set Forth

Why can’t I reach those goals?  Have you ever gotten really inspired to accomplish something, ventured out to get it and came up short? Maybe you set some goals and spent every waking moment trying to accomplish them all, but then after a few days of not reaching some parts of that goal you got discouraged and let go of the possibilities to achieve it? There could be a flaw within the process of you achieving those goals. Maybe you've set an unattainable high expectation or the goals...

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Write It Down and Make It Plain

Goal Setting  Your plan for achieving these goals should be focused on what you want to achieve during a certain time period, it should help you organize your thoughts, setting goals creates a timeline for milestones, and helps you see a clear plan for where you are at and get you where you want to be. CHANGE isn't CHANGE until you CHANGE  Where do we start?  We can talk all day on the importance of setting goals but the only way goals will be effective is to get going on activating...

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I see CHANGE in your future!

Setting Business Goals...Why? When you are ready to set some goals in your business or your personal life, it’s a clear sign that you are ready to experience something new. You are ready for change and what change has to offer you is growth you probably never allowed yourself to undergo. Most of us equate setting goals to the 1st of the new year like a new years resolution. Why wait to set goals at the 1st of the year, anytime is a good time to set goals.  “If you don’t know where...

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U - Don’t Be Afraid to Be Unique! How to build a successful business brand

Business? Why Y.O.U. This week we touched on understanding the Y.O.U. in business ownership. There is so much to overcome when you first venture out with a business so why did YOU consider business ownership? Some of us built our business from scratch, some are managing someone else's dream making sure its producing to the best of its abilities, there are those who were given an opportunity packed with the vision, products, and services which they apply their marketing skills to, and there...

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O - Own It! Become known as an expert in your field

Confident in what you do?  Competition is stronger than ever no matter what industry you are in. Are you a person who lives, eat, and sleeps your industry? Then you are a brand! Yes! That’s right...You are the face of what you know and people are clamoring to get to know you and how you can help them with your products and services. Value the years of experience you have under your belt. Look back on the triumphs and struggles to build your professional brand on. For the most part...

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