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- Need More Hours in Your Day? There is a Solution! By : Victoria K. Munro
If you want more hours in your day, more days in your week, you’re not alone. This is the biggest complaint we hear from entrepreneurs. There is a solution. Of course, we can and should maximize our time, become more efficient, automate and delegate, but this alone won’t resolve the time deficiency crisis. - Live the Life You Love -- A Balancing Act By : Victoria K. Munro
Do you ever feel that life is a balancing act of returning phone calls, emails, client appointments and dealing with the daily challenges of running your business, then juggling all that with time for family and friends? If so, you’re not alone! - Let Go and Grow - In Other Words, Delegate! By : Victoria K. Munro
Without delegating, you will never work at your maximum efficiency, and you’ll limit the growth of your business. It’s easy for entrepreneurs to spend all their time working very hard in their businesses, but taking little or no time to step back, gain a different perspective and work on their businesses. If you’re overwhelmed, have too much to do and too little time, consider the benefits of delegation. - Keys to Personal Productivity: Understanding Yourself is the Secret! By : Victoria K. Munro
We live in a fast-changing world. Products that were state of the art yesterday have become commonplace today and will be obsolete tomorrow. With ever-increasing amounts of new information to process daily, and escalating demands on our time, many feel they’re on overload. In addition, if you’re in business for yourself, you need to gain and maintain a competitive edge. You can’t afford to be inefficient. You need to find practical solutions that will increase your personal productivity. - Keys to Help You Stay Focused: Key #3: Focus Your Thoughts: Take Time to Think By : Victoria K. Munro
Schedule regular time each day or each week to think about and focus on what is truly important to you. This isn’t time wasted. In our fast-paced lives where multitasking has become the norm, our thoughts easily become scattered and muddled. Focused, uninterrupted time spent clarifying ideas, brainstorming solutions, reflecting on decisions and planning for the future can move you light years ahead. - Keys to Help You Stay Focused: Key #2: Steer Clear of Distractions By : Victoria K. Munro
Yielding to distractions will divert your focus and steal your time. In order to steer clear of distractions, we must be aware of our weaknesses in this area -- those temptations that easily sabotage our focus. Distractions can be harmless -- even noble -- activities. They come in many forms and may be different for everyone. - Keys to Help You Stay Focused: Key #1: Keep Your Destination in Focus By : Victoria K. Munro
In our fast-paced, high-stress, information-laden world, busyness has become the norm. We are presented daily with a tempting array of products and possibilities -- all vying for our time and attention. Never in history have people been barraged with so much information and offered so many choices. It’s tough to stay focused. For small business owners who must wear many different hats to keep their companies going and growing, the challenge of staying focused and on track can be overwhelming. - Is Busywork Eating Up Your Time? By : Victoria K. Munro
If you’re spending more time on busywork than on growing your business, it’s probably time to hire a VA (Virtual Assistant). With today’s technology, hiring an assistant doesn’t entail purchasing a new computer, phone and office furniture, etc., or sharing your space with someone else. You don’t even need to live in the same city. - Invest in Your Number One Asset By : Victoria K. Munro
Entrepreneurs are famous for working long hours, often sacrificing time with family or time to take care of themselves. The thrill of getting a dream business off the ground and growing it into a profitable enterprise can be addictive. But in the process, small business owners often fail to take good care of the business’s number one asset: themselves. - How to Use SMART Goals to Get Ahead By : Victoria K. Munro
We have watched many small business owners steadily grow their businesses to new levels as they have regularly set SMART 30-day goals. The results have been remarkable, and we found that consistency is key. If you’ve set goals in the past, we encourage you to consider making goal setting a regular part of your schedule again. - How to Set Goals You Will ACHIEVE By : Victoria K. Munro
Many entrepreneurs live frenetically busy lives, taking little time to stop and plan where they really want to take their lives. Under the daily pressures of running a successful business, goals often fall by the wayside unachieved, but setting and reaching our goals will allow us to create the life we really want. Goals help us achieve what our hearts knows is right. - Entrepreneurs: Don’t Get Stuck in the Status Quo! By : Victoria K. Munro
It’s time to review and revise your business plan for 2008. Because personal and business lives are often interwoven for entrepreneurs, it’s good to consider both. Learn from the past and decide on changes you want to make in life—don’t get stuck in the status quo.
Now, while business may be slower because of the holidays, take time to ask yourself the following questions: - Beware of BSOs! By : Victoria K. Munro
Are distractions stealing your time and revenue? In our information-laden world we’re barraged daily with a tempting array of possibilities and products -- a myriad of Bright Shiny Objects all vying for our time and attention. Those BSOs contending for our interest may be good and worthwhile, but they also divert our focus and decrease productivity. As a small business owner who must wear many different hats to keep your company going and growing, maintaining focus is vital. Without it, you’re unlikely to turn your goal -- your dream -- into reality. - Avoid Common Entrepreneurial Pitfalls: Keep in Balance and Get Where You Want to Go By : Victoria K. Munro
Key to business and life success is defining where you want to be in the future, and then keep in balance as you move towards your target. It’s a good idea to at least write down what you want your business (and your life) to look like three or five years from now. After all, if you’re uncertain about where you want to take your business and your life, how will you know if or when you’ve arrived? Hanging a picture, or collage of pictures, showing your business in the future makes this even more powerful. - A Meeting of One By : Victoria K. Munro
Whether clients are calling and sales are up or you’re just getting a new business off the ground, running a business is demanding. The crucial daily tasks of running the business, wearing the many different hats, trying to catch up and keep up can consume all your time and energy. The thought of stopping to take time out to reflect, review and plan can seem absurd. Yet it could be what you need most. - How To Start Up And Drive A Successful Home Business By : donyates
There must be a need for your product of service. It doesn’t do any good to offer a product that no one wants. There probably wouldn’t be much demand for white washing Elephants or Alligator Dentistry so don’t go into these fields. Entrepreneur Magazine lists 'find a need and fill it' as Rule #1 for business start-ups and we couldn’t agree more.. - How Beginning Investors Can Make Money From Foreclosures By : Robert Lam
What's the buzz with foreclosures? Did you know saavy investors all around you are secretly making money in this highly lucrative niche? Here is how they are doing it. These are the top and most popular ways to make money with foreclosures. - Stir Up Your Entrepreneurial Passion: Ten Easy Tips By : Victoria K. Munro
You may bound out of bed each morning ecstatic at the prospect of working another day in your business. But there may also be times when your entrepreneurial zeal begins to wane and you just coast along, going through the motions. The long hours, erratic cash flow and wearing all those hats can wear you down. - How to make your home based business explode! By : Brett Windmann
Come learn the key to making your home based business a success. - How to avoid online scams. By : Brett Windmann
Use these two small steps to avoid being scammed! - Clean Up With Your Own Janitorial Service By : donyates
Anywhere people work or play needs someone to pickup after them. Enter - the Janitor. The knight of the night keeps things in order and keeps people from suffocating in their own refuse. People are dirty, and they generate a lot of trash. Because of this natural order, Janitors will always be in demand and have a place in the pecking order. How do you go about getting into the Janitorial business? - How can I be successful in real estate? By : Strongbow
In this article James Macecari will give some insider hints on how individuals make it in the real estate business. Mr. Macecari will explain why those late night infomercials will not make you rich and why they just cost you more money then they are worth. - Hints on creating a business. By : Christopher Rose
A guide to what the ideal individual business should be. The conditions that should be met when starting up one's own business. - Taco Stand Entrepreneurs Cook Up A Fortune. By : dayates
Many people think starting your own business is only afforded by the well educated or that it takes a lot of money and that's it’s so complicated only an Ive Leaguer could handle it. The most often phrase heard when discussing entrepreneurship is, “I can't do it” or “ I don't have any idea what to do.” Most people are intimidated by the very idea of striking out on their own, being their own boss or taking on the responsibility of ownership. - The Recipe for Business Success: Why Patience, Determination and Willingness to Learn are Paramount By : Cesar Campos
Business tips for people planning to work on new business ventures and what traits or values to cultivate.
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