Productivity for Small Business Owners - Getting Longer Days

Make Your Business More Profitable by Focusing on Constraints

There are many ways to make plans to improve your business (improve = make more money). You can create goals, set priorities, flesh out your businesses strategy, etc.
While all of these approaches are useful, and will certainly help you identify more to-dos than you can handle, I’ve found that focusing on removing constraints creates a kind of [...]

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Can blogging help your small business? Watch it unfold here.

For small business owners with a lot to do, is blogging worth the time spent? Can a company blog significantly contribute to the bottomline of a small business?
Let me say upfront that I have never had a successful blog or tried to use a blog to market a business. So, I can’t answer that question [...]

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Discover Exactly What Matters to Your Prospects

Every business owner wishes they could get inside the head of their prospect and learn exactly what specific benefits of their product or service their target market is truly interested in.
Knowing this information, they could tailor their sales copy to center on those benefits and they could improve and build upon those aspects of their [...]

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Test and Review of PRWeb Press Release (updated)

Today we submitted our first press release on how a virtual assistant can help small businesses during a recession.
As I was preparing this press release, I found the reviews and information on the effectiveness of PRWeb to be sparse so I’m going to try to make this as useful as possible to someone who is [...]

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Zealog versus Daytum: A Review of Apps That Help You Keep Track of Things

Just how many cups of coffee do you drink a day on average? How does your weight fluctuate over time? How much sleep do you normally get?
A new type of web service has emerged that allows you to keep track of such personal statistics. Two services, Daytum and ZeaLOG stand out as the two [...]

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Is what Timothy Ferriss teaches about Virtual Assistance Plausible?

In his book 4 hour work week, Timothy Ferriss paints a very attractive picture of virtual assistance as the key to an automated lifestyle most only dream of. Can you really outsource most of the mundane details of your life and business creating a carefree existence rarely seen outside of the movies and a business that [...]

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Flow State and Computer Work: Get More Done, Faster, and Better.

“Flow” is a hyperproductive mental state characterized by complete involvement in the task at hand. Athletes, musicians, and other performance-based workers crave this “zone” that produces some of their best results with less effort. Flow state is the antithesis of multi-tasking, it is the application of all your mental and physical resources toward the accomplishment [...]

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StumbleUpon Ads Review

For those unfamiliar with StumbleUpon, according to their website, it is a service that “discovers web sites based on your interests. Whether it’s a web page, photo or video, our personalized recommendation engine learns what you like, and brings you more.” Essentially, you install a toolbar to your browser, you tell StumbleUpon what subject matter [...]

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Testing out Squidoo

One part of being a virtual assistant is staying current on internet trends, services, and websites so that we can bring these tools to the table when working with our clients. With that intention in mind, I am currently focusing on improving our resources for developing a web presence for small businesses. This is a [...]

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