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Don’t Be Afraid to Delegate – Five Easy Tips
Part of being a manager or supervisor is learning how to delegate. Besides being a wonderful tool to share workload, knowing how to delegate creates people who are more personally and professionally fulfilled. It doesn’t take special skills or secret techniques to learn how to delegate successfully. Try these five techniques the next time you need to delegate. 1. Clearly specify what you want. 2. Delegate one task to one person. 3. When you delegate the responsibility, [...]
How to Hold Effective Meetings
Many of us spend hundreds of hours in meetings every year and quite possibly tens of thousands of hours in meetings during our careers. Perhaps the best possible way to avoid this is to avoid meetings entirely. If this is not possible or not realistic, then I offer up these 5 tips to help you get organized and make the most of your meetings. 1. Begin with an Agenda The best agendas are those that [...]
Six Steps to a Successful CRM Software Implementation
Here's a six-step approach to implementing your PlanPlus Online CRM and automating your business processes for maximum personal and professional effectiveness. Step 1- Time Management Before you start planning your implementation goals, it's important to identify how much time you have to work with. Plan a project that can fit within the time constraints that you have. The more important the goal, the more likely you'll be to spend more time on it--and, the more [...]
Is There Really Time to Get it All Done?
Is there really time to get to everything on your task list? If you're like most people (myself included) who have a habit of carrying forward dozens of tasks each day, it might feel overwhelming at times to look at that list. I may not be the best at getting everything done every day, but I am good at capturing the task requests that come to me and those that I set for myself related [...]
How to Increase Website Conversions and Sales
Most websites these days have (or should have) some sort of a webform that captures a lead. We have asked our guest blogger, Robert “RJ” Neel, to provide us with some thoughts on how to get the most out of webforms. Robert has orchestrated the successful creation of thousands of small and medium business websites, mobile apps, and online marketing campaigns. His direction has lead to the generation of tens of millions of dollars of [...]
The Science of SEO
SEO or search engine optimization is the science and art of getting your website discovered, analyzed, indexed and then ranked on the search engines.Could your business survive long without customers? What would happen if your customers were unable to find your address or your phone number? The same is true if they can’t find your business on the Internet. […]
Mobile Planning
Over the past several years I have been on a quest to be connected and to have my key personal information with me all the time. It was not always easy to be connected, but now that quest is a way of life for me and countless others. […]
Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness: What’s the difference?
The terms productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness are often used as synonyms in casual conversation and by many managers. However, there's a big difference in the results that are achieved by maximizing each of these measurements. Productivity Productivity is technically regarded as a measure of Outputs divided by Inputs. All of the activities that you get done in a day may be considered your output and the time you put into them would be your inputs. [...]
Tips for Building a Valuable Database of Customer Information
Whether you are a sole proprietor, a sales rep, or a VP of sales or marketing, building and maintaining your customer database should be of great concern to you. If your goal is to grow your business, then you need to build your customer database. Having a well-groomed database of all of your prospects and customers will save you time and money. Having ready access to all of your data can make it much easier [...]
Year End Assessment
Out with the old, in with the new. Was 2010 a year of success, a year of purpose, a year of meaning? Or, was it something less than that? If you are like me, 2010 was filled with some fantastic things, and some not so fantastic things. Some moments of joy, and some moments of frustration. […]