Has the high of the New Year planning and resolutions worn off for you yet? Many of us, myself included, spent the last weeks of 2015 creating plans and projections for the New Year. It’s a magical time full of dreaming and fairy dust. But for most, that’s where things breakdown. We hit the wall
How I Helped Kristin Double Her Biz
I want to tell you about when I first met my client Kristin Thompson of SpeakServeGrow. She had just created a big burst of business and now things were starting to go wrong…. (some of this might sound familiar) you’re closing new business but its not “sticking“ the high level of customer service you want to deliver is starting
Reactive vs. Proactive Mindset, Which one is running your business?
Happy 2014! I hope you had a great holiday season and have come into the New Year with renewed energy and a sense of purpose. Today, I want to share something I’ve learned recently that is helpful as we ponder how we think about our businesses. Proactive vs Reactive Business Mindset We all begin in
Have you been self-diagnosing and self-treating your biz?
When you have five kids, they’re bound to bring home colds and viruses from time to time and sometimes it seems like forever before it gets through everyone in the house and we’re all back to healthy. Well, this happened a couple times in my house this winter and I was the only one who
It Doesn't Have to Be All or Nothing: Hiring a Virtual Assistant for Short-Term Work
There are two major ways that you can work with a virtual assistant. The first of these is with management projects, which are completed on an ongoing basis (such as hiring a VA to publish your bi-weekly newsletter). The second of these is based off of short-term work, where you simply hire a virtual assistant
Testing the Waters with Your New VA
When you decide to hire a VA, before signing on the dotted line, it’s wise to put a limit on your initial time working together, much like a probationary period. As with any working relationship that’s new, both parties need time to assess if things are going the way they intended. In the
Keeping Track of Your VA
So you’ve hired your first VA, and you’re starting to hand over tasks. Now how do you keep tabs on what they’re doing (and no, I don’t mean in their personal life!)? Well, in the “old” days, you had to rely on the VA keeping track of their time on their computer, maybe in a
