time management strategies

10 Tips to Beat the Overwhelm and Stay Focused

Articles for Reprint September 22, 2010

Many business owners share with me that one of their biggest problems is information overwhelm which in turn leads to lack of focus, and therefore they don’t actually get stuff done in their business. They’re so busy trying to keep up with all the information that they’re being hit with that they don’t actually get around [...]

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3 Simple Steps to Taking Time Away from Your Business

Articles for Reprint September 14, 2010

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 [...]

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How To Go From Overwhelmed and Frustrated To Organized and Stress-Free

Training Workshops and Products August 5, 2009

Join me on September 2 at 11:00 am EST (New York) where I will share with you how to eliminate the overwhelm and frustration of running your online solo service business. My business has grown enormously over the past three years; I continually attract new clients, take time off whenever I want, and have doubled [...]

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Time Management Solutions – 10 Minutes to Spare?

Time Saving Tips February 9, 2009

There are many times during your work day that you find yourself with a spare few minutes – maybe you’re in-between client appointments, or you finished a project earlier than you’d anticipated, or you just simply want to take a break. Rather than fritter that time here are 10 activities you can do in 10 [...]

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5 Essential Keys to Plan YOUR Success

Articles for Reprint February 5, 2009

As a solopreneur there is always an endless list of projects that we want to work on or need to complete in order to grow our business. If we don’t plan properly and build in time to work on these projects we can very quickly become overwhelmed, and in the end we don’t complete anything. [...]

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Time Management – Finding Solutions and Shortcuts

Time Saving Tips February 2, 2009

There are four major sources of time drain for busy business owners: 1. Scheduling appointments Solution: Get clients to self-schedule. One of the many advantages to doing this is that there are no emails back and forth offering various timeslots – a huge timesaver in itself 2. Day-to-day emails – too many! Solution: Schedule set [...]

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Time Management Success – Implementation

Time Saving Tips January 27, 2009

Once you’ve set some basic systems in place such as deciding on HOW you want your work week to look, created a project planner, and/or created a timeline, the second key is implementation. Transfer you new work week schedule to your diary or online planner i.e. block out the times. Tell your clients and colleagues [...]

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3 Quick Tips for Time Management Success

Time Saving Tips January 12, 2009

One crucial element to successfully managing your solo service business is to manage your time effectively. The first step to doing that is to decide HOW you want your work week to look, and here are my top three tips for helping you achieve that: Break down your month into chunks, for example the first [...]

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Huge Timesaver ~ Get Clients to Self-Schedule!

Time Saving Tips December 18, 2008

Use a service such as TimeDriver http://www.timedriver.com Works with Outlook and Google calendar Advantages: You create the available timeslots in your calendar (refer to Key 1 – Planning). You then send a link to your TimeDriver calendar to your client. Your client can only schedule in those times that YOU have made available in your [...]

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