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How An All Inclusive System Grows Your Business

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Mavenlink. All opinions are 100% mine.

There are many stages when it comes to client and business interfacing. There also are many strategies one can use to efficiently run one’s business. However, the folks over at Mavenlink have refined client/business interaction to a fine art.

In a nutshell, Mavenlink is ideal for:

o Businesses
o Consultants
o Service Firms
o Non-Profit Organizations.

Let’s take a quick look at what I’m attempting to express. There is you (the business), your team (if you have employees and/or additional consultants), and the vital part of this equation… your client. (more…)

Get Paid to Drop Drives Traffic

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Granted this post is aimed at bloggers and those who would like be become successful bloggers, but it’s also one that will show you that by combining your efforts, you can make money online.

This is not a quick way to pay the bills, however, if you have never proven to yourself, not once, that you can make money well here’s a good way to start.

And, the wonderful added bonus is… you’re driving traffic to someone’s web site, and (if you list yourself) you, too, will receive a flood of traffic in return.

So on the positive side your traffic count goes way up (thus way down in Alexa and those entities out there counting traffic stats) and you have that must-have action – the chance to put your blog in front of a real person’s eyes (so be ready and make sure your business plan is clear-cut for other’s to grasp when they get there).

On another positive note, you can (more…)

Why Beat A Dead Horse?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

First, my apologies for the title and all horse-lovers out there! I often find myself using the expression, “You can’t swing a dead cat without…” However, I am lucky to have two wonderful feline friends and I try (seriously) to make sure they are out of earshot when I make the remark LOL!

So what THIS post is about is to refer you over to one I just made on the My Wizard Ads blog. It is very pertinent for all internet marketers, yet redoing it here would be… well redundant. And, I just finished that post up and if I say so myself I did a decent job :)

Now I’m off to work on the two newest members to our Whole-Hog-Blogs Network family – Joe’s Time Life Travels and Ron’s All About Alternatives. I just love blogging, don’t you? And getting people up and running and successfully driving traffic to a well-thought-out blog is gratifying. (Starting a blog often sounds easy; too often people just give up without proper blogging coaching, mentoring, and support.)

(BTW, Joe Eisenbeil’s travel stories are not to be missed! He’s been traveling the globe for more than 60 years and his perspective is truly unique!).

Now don’t forget to read the above post over at My Wizard Ads (or you could be very sorry).

Ciao!

It’s Not You, It’s Outlook

Monday, January 11th, 2010

I use Outlook. In fact my entire business depends on it. And, believe it or not, for years I have put up with the tiny, tiny font size Outlook defaults to when installed.

Sure, I’ve played around with this and that. I’ve changed screen resolutions (that have absolutely zero effect, of course). I’ve changed what I could find in the settings and options within Outlook itself – still nothing. Then I’d just give up and continue working – until recently when I said, “Enough is enough, there has got to be a way!”

The following information on changing Outlook’s font size provides the solution. Correction… it solves about 90% of the problem. However, once you’ve made the adjustments shown step-by-step via screenshots, your eyes will jump out of your head and thank you!

Again, it’s not an entire fix, but the “important stuff” such as finally seeing the list of messages in your inbox will make a world of difference for you.

NOTE: I did find that for all the hundreds (literally) of folders I have in Outlook, each needs adjusting. But if you take the really needed ones – your inbox, delete folder, storage areas for important aspects of business and/or family communications – and follow the steps above, your new year will be off to a BIGGER and better start when it comes to receiving and reviewing your incoming mail!

NOTE on NOTE: I cannot believe it took me this long to find some sort of solution. I can only hazard a guess that after looking (most likely with the wrong keywords – see how important keywords are?) that I continued to put this important task on the back burner.

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