Streamline Your Systems

5-Step Checklist for Sending Out Email Broadcasts

Articles for Reprint April 30, 2012

Being consistent in your business is one of the critical factors for ensuring long-term growth, and one of the ways to ensure consistency is to create systems. Everything you do in your business, from responding to emails to working with clients, needs to be systemized and documented, so that it’s very easy to create a repeatable [...]

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How A Simple Email Signature Can Get You More Clients

Articles for Reprint March 2, 2012

Whenever you receive an email from me you will ALWAYS see my contact information at the bottom and know exactly how you can get in touch with me.    You will see: My name My company’s name My telephone and fax number My email address (with an active hyperlink) My website address (with an active hyperlink) [...]

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4 Top Project Management Tools

Articles for Reprint February 24, 2012

One question that I get asked a lot is “what’s a good online product I can use for scheduling projects throughout the year?” or something similar. In fact just this week, on a group that I belong to, this very question came up, so I jumped in with my recommendations and thought I’d share them here [...]

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Top 3 Gmail Productivity Tools

Articles for Reprint February 13, 2012

As some of you may be aware, I permanently switched from Outlook (having used it for many years) to Gmail at the end of last year. My main reason was because, as I seem to be doing a lot of traveling lately, I wanted to be able to access my email on the go, especially from [...]

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Top Tips and Tools For Managing Emails

Streamline Your Systems December 12, 2011

Earlier this week a client email me asking, “Do you have 2 separate email accounts, one for business and one for personal. That’s what I have right now, but I am wondering if I should merge my email into one account, my business account. What do you suggest?” This was a great question because I [...]

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Gmail Email Management: Create Filters and Labels for Quick and Easy Email Organization

Articles for Reprint October 9, 2011

We all know that email is a huge source of overwhelm for many solopreneurs, and also one of the biggest time drains. However, email is essential to a solopreneur’s success, so you have to find a way of organizing your emails. If organized properly you’ll quickly and easily be able to: Focus on the top priority [...]

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Gmail Tip: Filtering Unread Emails

Streamline Your Systems July 29, 2011

I’m not a huge fan of Gmail and only use it when I’m travelling (I much prefer Outlook to run my business), but these past two weeks I’ve had to rely on Gmail a lot as I’m back in the UK due to a family emergency. So, along with that has come some additional learning [...]

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Top 5 Remote Working Tools

Articles for Reprint June 2, 2011

One of the many requests I get from business owners is asking me for my advice on how they can work productively when they’re not in their office, i.e. work remotely. With so many technology choices available today it becomes overwhelming knowing which one(s) are the most effective. I have the traditional solo service professional [...]

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Collecting Client Testimonials Using the Before/After Template

Articles for Reprint May 18, 2011

Getting feedback is so crucial to your long-term business success as you need to know that you are providing the information/services that your clients and customers want, when they want it, and in the way that they want it. There are several different ways and different types of testimonials that you’ll be wanting to get: [...]

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Outlook Tip: Create an Email Template

Streamline Your Systems April 14, 2011

Running a successful business is all about creating systems and processes,  particularly if you do the same thing over and over again. As soon as you do an activity/thing/step more than once, you need to create a system for it. For example: if you find you keep sending the same email again and again, create [...]

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