Being able to manage a support team successfully, means that you are a project manager who know how to listen and delegate. Yes there are other key skills that a successful project manage need to have in place but listening and delegating are two of the most important one.
Managing a successful support team takes a project manager who is willing to not only work on developing their team but also developing themselves. Below are a list of areas where a project manager should either currently excel in or are developing in as part of their skillset. This list is based …read more

When using social media, there are a few things that one should keep in mind when connecting with others. Being able to use social media wisely is very important.
To help you think about a few things when using social media, I have created a short list below:

Respect others and don’t SPAM with links.
Don’t always push information our to people, connect with others by responding to others.
If you come across helpful information, be willing to share it.
Be open to answering questions that you friends may ask.
Look at ways where you can automate or manage your social media efforts.

As you apply these …read more

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

Have you been trying to find a business partner without success to grow your business? Have you considered searching for a partner via social media? In today’s time as a business owner, you may have to look at connecting with a business partner to grow you business.
If you choose to use social media to search for a business partner, then let me share a few things that could help you in your search.

Create a list of skills or traits that you want your business partner to have.
Then you can use different social media networks to assess those you are considering …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

In the second part of my article about Schedulicity, I wanted to share about my personal experience. I decided to try their software to schedule a message appointment. To schedule, I used their mobile scheduling capability by using my cell phone. The scheduling process flowed smoothly while I used my cell phone.
I was then able to check the status of my appointment as week as find out more details about the company I chose to use. The company was Balanced Body Massage which is owned and operated by Deborah Hays Arellano. My finding is that Schedulicity would be a good …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

Recently found out the Bill Cosby has ventured into the social media scene with a big bag. He just released a new CD and started using social media to promote it. You can find out more details by visiting the Bill Cosby Social Media website. You can purchase the CD Album by visiting Bill Cosby Present The Cosnarati: State of Emergency.
Some of the ways that Bill Cosby is using social media are some of the same things that you can do to promote your products. Below are ways that he is using social media:

Twitter
Facebook
MySpace
Ustream
Cinch
Vimeo
12seconds
BlogTalkRadio

Just remember that as you develop your promotional …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