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•3 Simple Steps to Taking Time Away from Your Business
When you're constantly working on and in your business you forget to schedule in some down time for yourself. The summer is the perfect time to take that downtime, especially if it means taking a vacation somewhere nice.
But then there's always the worry that if you're not involved in your business on a daily basis that things will fall apart and you won't have any business to come back to when you return. Today I'd like to share with you three simple steps that you can take to ensure your...
•4 Top Tips to To Keeping Your Newsletter on Track
Whether your newsletter is a weekly, monthly or quarterly commitment it's important that you have a plan for keeping the production flowing. Your subscribers need to know that you will deliver exactly when you say you will, otherwise you will be in danger of appearing unreliable and not doing what you said you would. Remember: as a solo service professional it's important to build the like, know, and trust factor, and getting your newsletter out on time, every time, is one of the ways in...
•The Ultimate Guide To A Client Conversion System
One of the best time-saving strategies I've implemented is my client conversion system. You know the drill; a potential client comes along and emails/calls you asking about your services. You spend time responding, maybe even putting a detailed proposal together, and then you never hear from them again! Not even a thank you for your email!
This is one area that's a huge time drain for solo service professionals, but one that is so important - you need paying clients so you have to spend...
•Break Out Of Your Email Jail 7 Top Tips for Managing Your Emails
Email management is a major source of overwhelm for many solo business owners; I only have to read my new subscriber notices every day to know this! When I ask my subscribers what their biggest office headache is email is right up there with the rest of them! Comments such as:
Emails - yikes!
Responding to emails
Managing email
Emails overload
Sound familiar?
By cleaning up the flow of emails into your Inbox, you can then improve the flow of your business, and spend your time...
•Hosting Your Own Teleclass 6 Dos and Don ts for a Successful Outcome
Hosting Your Own Teleclass? 6 Dos and Don'ts for a Successful Outcome Hosting teleclasses is one of my absolute favorite list building strategies. Apart from being easy to do, it's a great way to interact with my audience and get to know them, and also let them get to know me. But as with anything new there's always a learning curve involved.
Over the years I've developed my own style for hosting teleclasses and found some shortcuts that allow me to present my content so that everything...
•3 Simple Strategies for Discovering What Your Target Market Wants
As a solo service professional you are probably already clear on who your niche is, i.e. you know who those people are who want and need your services, but are you providing the solution to their problems in the way that they want?
If your products, programs, and/or services are not selling as well as you thought they would it could be there's a mismatch between what your market wants and what you're providing them with. In other words, are you providing the solutions based on what YOU think...
•3 Winning Strategies To Use For Building Your List
My clients and regulars to my ezine have heard me say many times that the gold in your business starts with the list. Having a list of interested potential clients, who want to know more about you and your services, will provide you with a long-term, successful, business.
And guess what?
When you have a list in place of potential clients who are interested in you, your services and your products they come to you! You don't have to go out and find clients - they're right there!
And to...
•3 Quick Tips to Banish Your Bookkeeping Blues
Are you one of those people who are guilty of just stuffing your receipts into a folder and thinking 'I'll sort that out when I've got time'? Do you need a more organised bookkeeping system, nothing too flash, just something that's simple and easy to manage?
Follow my tips below and you'll soon have that simple and easy-to-manage bookkeeping system that won't bring you out in a cold sweat whenever you hear the words 'tax return'. And I promise you, it works!
1. Gather your supplies!
Get...
•3 Tips for Overcoming Writer s Block
Your next newsletter is due out this Friday! You've got your newsletter template in front of you; you're sat at your PC all ready to go, and, horror of horrors... you've got blank page syndrome a.k.a. writer's block. Your mind is a complete blank and you can't think of a single thing to write about!
Writing articles is one of the main reasons why many solopreneurs put off producing a newsletter - they think they won't have anything to write about and writing an article is too time consuming...
•5 Challenges and Mistakes Faced by Every Solopreneur
I was recently a presenter in a Telesummit and even though I had a specific topic to present on, the hosts also felt it would be appropriate to talk about some of the biggest challenges and mistakes that I faced (and still do face today) along my path to solopreneurship!
These are the same issues that EVERY solopreneur faces at some point or other in their business so, in case you missed my presentation, I thought I'd share those challenges and mistakes with you here in the hope that you can...
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