If you are a solopreneur and have a family, do they support you and your business? Have your included your family into business so that they can support you? If you have a family, one the important things you can do is include them in on your business operation.
Having your family support your business is important because:

They can be your sounding board for ideas.
If you manufacture items, they can be your initial team of workers.
Family members can help you with organizing your home office
Create business activities around family time.
Create specific tasks that family members can complete to support your business.

These …read more

Using social media to connect with others is important especially if you are using it to grow your business. However, have you noticed that you efforts have stalled or that you are not connecting as much via social media?
If you are experiencing a hindrance in your social media efforts, maybe you need to make some changes. Below are a few things that can help you identify if your social media efforts are stalled:

Have you found that you are losing Twitter followers as quickly as you add them?
Are people not attending your teleseminars even though you heavily advertise them?
Have your mailing …read more

Do you have clients who have been difficult to deal with? Or maybe a project doesn’t feel like a good fit. If there comes a time when you need to end a project or client relationship, there is a tactful way to do it.
As a business owner, one of the things that you may face is the end of a connection to a client or vendor or a project. To help you tactfully deal with it, I have created a list below of a few things that you should keep in mind:

Don’t be mean. Even if the other person is …read more

If your business centers in on using scheduling software to manage your client meetings, then you should take a look at Schedulicity scheduling software. There software can help you create a seamless process from clients scheduling their own appointment to managing service provider details.
In a recent interview with members of the staff from Schedulicity, they shared key information that can help you understand how their service can help you manage your client scheduling.
Below is the first part of the interview with them.
What is the Schedulicity story? What was the genesis of the business idea?
We spent thousands of hours behind …read more

Have you ever started a new project without having a plan in place? What was the outcome of doing this? Was is troublesome trying to figure out the project path you were going to take without a clue of how it was going to end? Then let me share a few tips on starting a project right so that you can ensure it ends correctly.
Some of the things that you should dow when starting a project are:

Determine the goals that you want to accomplish by the end of the project.
Determine the timeline; whether the project will have an end date …read more

When you first startup a business, one of the things that a business owner must implement is marketing. Having a strong marketing plan can help a business thrive in today’s economy.
To develop a strong marketing plan for a startup, below are some of the things that should be included by the business owner using the acronym S.T.E.A.D.Y.:

Strategy. Start with a strategy of how you will market your business.
Timing. Make sure that you time your marketing campaign so that it connects at the right time and the right way with your target market.
Evaluate. Build-in a way to evaluate your marketing efforts …read more

Have you ever watched the show “Leverage” on TNT? It’s all about “leveraging” to where the good wins out over the bad. With social media, when you apply “leveraging” this means that you are looking for ways to get your name or business name in front of the masses in a good way. Well most people want it in a good way. ☺
Regardless of how you do it, understanding how to leverage social media for business is important. To help you understand how to do this effectively, I decided to share a short list of things you can do to leverage …read more

If you seem to be overbooking yourself or dropping the ball on client projects, do you need to fire yourself? As a business owner, it is always important that you are able to meet your commitments to your client.
If you don’t, you could lose them. So if you are having problems with meeting commitments, then maybe you do need to fire yourself and hire a support team that would help you out. A support team could consist of:

Graphic designer
Virtual assistant (VA)
Web designer
Bookkeeper
Housekeeper
Accountant

There are so many more types of team members that you can add to your support team to …read more

Have you taken an assessment of your social media efforts to see if they are having an affect on your website statistic? Have you incorporate your website into your social media strategy? The answer to the question is that social media can have an affect on your website traffic.
If you haven’t added your website to your social media strategy, then it’s not too late to add it. There are simple things that you can do to add your website to your strategy and they are listed below:

If you have an RSS feed for your website, you can use TwitterFeed.com automatically …read more

A unique event is happening right now and is sponsored by Google. It’s called Project 10100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th). The whole purpose of this event is to allow people to vote on ideas that will change the world. The ideas fall into different categories and various types of outreaches.
The ideas came from actual people who submitted them as a way to help Google determine what project they should underwrite the cost for the idea to be implemented. To vote just look for the following button when you visit Project 10100

There are several ideas available and they …read more