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Deal with Email Overload in 3 Easy Steps
Emails are an unavoidable reality of doing business these days. Most small business owners I talk to receive anywhere from 200-1000 emails a day. And, not all of these emails are “business critical.” No wonder most of us feel overwhelmed by email and some of us even avoid it completely. However, as more and more business is done online, ignoring business critical emails could be catastrophic. Here are three tips to help you deal with the email overload without completely ignoring it:
Clear the inbox
The inbox is not a garage. Don’t treat it like a storage space. Think of the inbox like your living room. You work hard to keep the living room clean so extend the same principle to your emails. Keeping the Inbox clean helps you quickly scan through the emails you’ve received to pick the important ones that you want to read and respond to. …
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Top 3 Secrets to Keeping your Customers Happy
Building a strong and profitable business means building a loyal customer base, but how can you keep your clients from straying when there’s so much competition around, tempting them with discounts and other offers? Carolyn West-Price Touhey reveals three secrets you can use right now to keep your customers happy and increase the chance of them staying with you.
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When Should You Break the Rules?
Karen Dodd explores the idea of breaking rules in order to create innovation, and gives real-life examples of how she broke away from the ‘norm’ in order to grow her own business. If you’re having trouble standing out from your competition, you may want to figure out how to do the opposite of “business as usual.”
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Keep your Customers: Let them know you Love them!
February is a month of love, and remembering to tell your customers (and employees, too!) how much you love and appreciate them is a great way of strengthening relationships. Carolyn West-Price Touhey gives valuable ideas on how tell your customers, “I love you.”
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5 Secrets to Turning Good Intentions into Great Results
You’ve made your New Year’s Resolutions; created your goals and plans; and are all fired up to succeed! And a month or two later, it all fizzles down. Your enthusiasm is gone; you forget why you wanted to do this or that project. You had all the right intentions, but lack the results. Catherine Rocheleau shows you how to break that cycle and turn good intentions into concrete results.
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Making Money
Making money is the reason businesses exist. Sure, some businesses are geared toward helping people, but if it’s not making money too, it’s not going to survive. Ellen Rohr gives her list of the best Do’s and Don’t's of helping your business make money.
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The Price is Right! – Figuring Out What to Charge
Are you running a business and struggling with money? It could be that you’re underpricing yourself. Ellen Rohr, author of three business books, explains how to figure out what you should be charging for your products and services.
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Keep Clients by Celebrating Thanksgiving…everyday!
It is far more cost-effective to keep your existing clients than it is to find new ones. Carolyn West-Price Touhey, owner of SmartBiz Strategy, reveals one of her many secrets to building client loyalty by practicing thanksgiving on a regular basis.
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“Thought” full Networking
Networking is essential to the growth of your business.
Once you accept that fact, the question is, how do you connect with the ‘right’ people? Since many decision makers rarely attend local networking events, how do you build rapport with them if they’re not there?
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Business structure for dummies
One of the more stimulating exercises facing the budding entrepreneur is deciding upon the structure for her new business venture. There are important considerations of cost, liability and brand protection, and tax to be addressed. There are also the needs of family, partners, financial backers, and employees to be considered.
