The year is wrapping up, and you might already have one foot in 2022. Before you dive too deeply into planning your next big year of business, make sure you take some time to celebrate everything that you’ve accomplished in 2021– and the people who helped you get there. Remember: Your business is not a …
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Year End Wrap Up Meeting Checklist
It’s beginning to look a lot like… End of year Finances Planning Reviews Client project wrap-ups Oh yeah, and the holidays. Whose idea was it to combine year-end with the holidays anyway? If your fiscal or planning year ends on December 31st, I’ve got your year-end wrap-up meeting checklist ready for you! Gather up the …
A Stellar Sales Process
Taki Moore, a business coach for other coaches, says that the key to an effective sales call process is to name and frame the experience. He says that when you tell people to book a call, you are essentially asking them to reach their hand into a hole in a big black box. They can’t …
3 Essential Templates You Need to Run Your Virtual Assistant Business
Are you currently reading this by the backlight of your phone while huddled beneath a mountain of post-it notes, to-do lists, and general dread when it comes to administrative tasks? Did you think that being an online business owner would swerve you away from paperwork duties? Didn’t you hire an assistant to handle this stuff? …
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How to Create a Business Report Card
I see you, feeling overwhelmed with all of the things you already do in your business without even thinking about data.
There are a lot of freaking numbers out there. A lot of pieces of data, things you’re supposed to somehow know in your business.
How to Create a Course
So you want to create a course. An online course is an incredible offer to have in your stack. You can use a course to teach one of your highly marketable skills and position yourself as the expert. “Build Your Badass Brand in 30 Days” “The Ultimate Lead Generation Strategy for Online Businesses” “Influencer Instincts: …
How to Create a Kickass Client Care Plan
A client care plan will help you deliver amazing, consistent service across the board to all of your clients. Your focus will be on building the relationship, not the transaction. Your clients will notice.
6 Ways to Reduce Noise in Your Business
As a business owner, I’m always putting on different hats (sometimes literally– this girl loves a cute hat), interacting with a million people, and attempting to stay focused and productive. It’s pretty clear to see why it’s so easy for entrepreneurs to become scatterbrained and stressed. But if you learn the right strategies, you can …
Your Top 3 Energy Leaks & How to Plug Them
Isn’t the relativity of time incredible? Back in your old 9-5, you may have been chewing on your pen and watching the clock as time seemed to literally stand still. A 40-hour workweek seemed more like a 100-hour workweek. But now that you’re an entrepreneur, getting lit up by all the work you’re doing, 40 …
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The Ultimate Hiring Guide
How to Find & Hire the Right Team Members at the Right Time Author’s Note: Every State/Province and Country has its own legal requirements when it comes to employee paperwork or agreements, benefits, what is or is not permitted during an interview, employee vs contractor, part time vs full time, so this article won’t be …