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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

The Top 5 Essential Qualities To Look For When Hiring A Virtual Assistant

I've had many interesting conversations with business owners who are at a point in their business where they know they need help and are looking for a Virtual Assistant (VA). At those times when I'm not taking on new clients, I have offered assistance in a different way - as more of an advisor. From this perspective I've found that while the business owner knows they need help they're not always sure what to look for.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

Your Easy To Follow Getting Started Article Marketing Checklist

Article marketing is a long term marketing strategy that helps position you as an expert in your niche and generate more traffic to your website. There are a number of guidelines to follow when writing and submitting articles, and although it is not difficult, it is a multi-step process and having a checklist in place is a helpful tool. Here is your 'getting started' checklist to help you prepare to market your articles:

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

3 Reasons Why You Need Home Office Time

Designated home office and business development time are essential for the small business owner. This is the time you can concentrate on your business - plan for the week ahead, learn new skills or software and in effect allow you to serve your clients better and run your business more efficiently and profitably. If you're feeling stuck in your business then this may just be the solution to help you build or expand your business and prosper.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

The Top 5 Ways To Balance Your Commitments

Are you at the point of overwhelm in your business? Do you have so many clients or commitments that you're not sure how you're going to meet everyone's demands? With too many commitments the quality of your work can suffer along with your good reputation and sanity. Does this overwhelm spill over into your personal life? If you work from a home office, others may not respect the fact that you have valid work to do and may put unreasonable demands on your time. Are you saying 'yes' to these requests too often?

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

The 3 Rules Of Organization That Are Crucial To Small Business Owners

Are you unorganized and overwhelmed? Is your work area a disaster zone with papers strewn across your desk, no processes in place to complete daily tasks and excessive information coming at you both online and off? The problem is that this state of physical and mental disorganization and overwhelm can spill over into your personal life too. This is especially true for home based business owners because our personal and business lives are so interconnected and it's important that we are managing our time wisely.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

3 Simple Ways To Add Time To Your Day

As a small business owner there is usually one activity that you find you are spending (or wasting) too much time on. This activity is probably a necessary part of your business, however, it is preventing you from getting to the really important stuff. What is your top time waster? What is it that you always seem to get stuck on for hours at a time? This is probably an easy question to answer and with a little work can be just as easy to resolve. Here are 3 simple ways that will help you gain control over your biggest time wasters: 1. Use templates whenever possible.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

Entrepreneurial Dreams Can Come True

When I get approached by newbie or wannabe VA's, they want to know how to get started, how I got started and if I need help. I think it's great that the VA profession is becoming more widely recognized. If you've read my bio you have an idea how I got here, but to elaborate on that, here's my story.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

Solo Is Not The Only Way To Go

Most small business owners realize at some point that they can no longer continue to ‘do it all’ as they once did when starting out. This usually happens when they are established and their business becomes successful. They are busy doing what they do best and find it necessary to start outsourcing the time consuming administrative tasks.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

How To Turn Your Intentions Into Reality

What does the power of intention mean to you? Do you use this power to achieve your goals? Does it work for you? How does it work? To me, the power of intention is simply a plan, a positive attitude and action and most importantly, it only works if I write my intention down. Here are a couple of examples of how it has worked for me and for others.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

How To Beat The February Blues

If you live in a climate with long, cold winters, then you know all about the February Blues or 'Blahs'. It's the time of year when we've had enough of hibe ating inside away from the cold and often dreary outdoors, short days and lack of sunshine. As solopreneurs we spend a lot of time on our own as it is and we still have a ways to go before spring arrives. Here are some things you can do to combat the blues: -If a tropical trip away this season isn't in the budget, how about a weekend retreat at a local B & B? Or book your summer holidays now.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

To Do Lists Are Not For Everyone - Creative Ways To Manage Your Time, Reduce Stress and Get More Done

If you don't follow a schedule you may start your day by sitting down at your desk wondering what you will do today. You will not be productive and likely not accomplish anything important. Let's say you start with checking email and get sidetracked forgetting the world outside of your inbox exists. Then you go on Facebook to get in your social networking for the day and wind up on there for more than an hour. Then, panicked, you remember something important that needs to be done for a client. In the midst of that project another client calls and you've become sidetracked.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

5 Simple Steps To Creating A Customized Schedule That Works For You

September is about new beginnings - back to school, back to work and new routines. In North America, September always seems to be the unofficial new year. As we leave behind the fun and frolic of summer and refocus on our businesses, it's likely time to revise our schedules as well. So here's to fresh starts as we talk about how to set up a weekly plan and make the best use of our time. You may refer to a schedule as an agenda, timetable, calendar, plan or to-do list. Whatever you call it, if you don't have one, I encourage you to create and follow one. Why? Because...

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

Give Yourself Permission to Leave Some Things Undone

Ever find yourself saying something like, "When this is done, then I'll [fill in leisure activity here]". But you repeat this until you're too exhausted to do that leisure activity? Does being organized really give you the freedom you're looking for? When your list of to-do's is unending and you feel you have to do them all, then the answer is 'no'.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

3 Simple Solutions to Clutter Control

Do you have a process you follow that keeps your home office organized? Do you document your expenses monthly or throw your receipts into a shoebox? When tax time comes, will your records be in order? Do you manage your emails daily or is your inbox out of control? It is much easier to maintain your office and manage your records ongoing. It will be difficult to maintain the quality of your work if you have to dedicate a huge chunk of time to finding an important document amongst piles of paper or organizing one years' worth of business records in one sitting.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

How To Successfully Market Your Business With A Pink Spoon

If you have ever signed up on a website to receive information in the form of a free report, newsletter or ebook and had this delivered to your inbox, you have experienced the pink spoon. A pink spoon is a 'free taste' of what a business has to offer. It is like the ice cream franchise that offers potential customers the opportunity to sample a flavour of their ice cream using a pink spoon. If a potential customer likes their 'free taste' they will go on to make a purchase. This catchy phrase was coined by Andrea J. Lee, award-winning author, coach, consultant and online business manager.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

How To Create a Yearly Business Plan And Achieve Your Goals

As entrepreneurs, most of us have prepared a well-thought out business plan. It is essential if you are looking for any sort of financial assistance when starting up and will keep you focused while building your business. Having a plan to follow will also increase your chances of success. However, a few years into your business, is your original business plan still relevant? Probably not. A yearly plan for an established business is an essential organizational tool if: * you're looking to grow your business

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

Does Your Business Need Some Pruning To Grow Successfully?

During a recent masterminding sessio I attended via web conference with fellow online solopreneurs, we discussed the topic of 'Growing Successfully'. We were asked to come up with the analogy of what our business would look like if it were a tree. I immediately envisioned the maple tree in my backyard and its transition over the past dozen or so years in relation to the ongoing stages of growth in my business. Little did I know that I would ever be drawing a comparison between the two.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

Write Your Way To Expert Status

Everyone is an expert at something. Whatever product or service you provide in your business is your area of expertise. Writing articles about what you are an expert at and distributing those articles online through various article submission directories is a valuable marketing strategy called Article Marketing. How will writing and submitting articles help your business? Here's how it works. You will:

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

3 Simple Ways to Consistently Grow Your Business

Business owners can get stuck in the area of Revenue Generating activities. This initially seems like a good thing, however, it's important to devote time to other aspects of running a business to enable you and your business to grow and prosper and the cycle of Revenue Generating activities to continue. Business Development is one of those areas. Here is a guide to help you know where to focus your attention during the time you make for Business Development. I have broken it down into 3 main areas with a definition, suggested activities and time frame for each:

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

The Value Of Testimonials

When was the last time you updated your testimonials? Do you have a following of raving fans that only you know about? You should have a smattering of testimonials on your website or throughout your marketing materials, sales pages or within your newsletter. If not then it's time to get to work on gathering your testimonials so your testimonials can get to work for you.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

Outsourcing--The Answer To Small Business Owner Burnout

As a small business owner you are involved in all aspects of your business from bookkeeping and marketing to customer service. At some point you realize that it is no longer possible to do it all and still grow your business. How do you know when it's time to stop trying to do it all yourself? How do you determine what work to outsource and what to continue to do yourself? What if you're conce ed about the financial investment? First, have a look at the following checklist to determine if outsourcing is what you need now. You know it's time to outsource when:r

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

The Top 7 Reasons You Don't Have Time For What's Important

One of the most common challenges I hear from small business owners is that they do not have enough time to focus on what's really important in their business. In order to solve this problem you first have to determine why this is a challenge. Once this is clear, you can look at strategies to help you manage the little things better and free up more time for what's important.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

How Improv Can Improve Your Small Business

If you would like to try something new and fun that can help you as a business owner, try taking an improv class. It may not be what first comes to mind as a traditional learning environment for the purpose of developing new skills, but what you will discover about yourself in the process is priceless. You may be wondering what exactly improv is and why learning improv may be of benefit to you as a business owner. Improv is basically acting without a script or costumes and few if any props. The audience often creates the scenarios and character traits for the actors.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

5 Reasons Why You Should Discover The Wonderful World Of Fiction

Reading is one of my all-time favourite activities and something I have rediscovered recently. I love finding a quiet space and losing myself in a novel. I've missed this little escape in my day. Now my girls are big enough to choose their own books from the library, it gives me the chance to browse through the selections and pick some of my own reading material. Not the "How To Grow Your Home Based Business in 5 Easy Steps" manuals, which are all well and good, but that's still business. I'm referring to the wonderful world of fiction!

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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By Jennifer HazlettRecently published1 topic

The Top 7 Excuses That Are Holding Back Your Small Business Success

Do you have bad habits in your business? Are there things you repeatedly do just out of habit? You know you could be holding yourself back from success but you continue making excuses. I'm sure you've heard the quote by Tony Robbins, "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Bad habits and excuses go hand in hand. If you want to kick your business up a notch but you're allowing excuses to keep you stuck, have a look at the following list.

Primary topic: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing

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