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Time Saving Tips

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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Time Management Strategies for the Holidays … Join Me?

Products and Events December 8, 2008

Teleclass Topic: Time Management Strategies for the Holidays Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 11:00 am EST Led by Tracey Lawton On this call I’ll be sharing with you effective and proven time management strategies to get you through this busy holiday season. With the information I’ll be sharing with you during this [...]

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How To Keep Your Resources Organized

General Biz September 14, 2008

Many solopreneurs tell me that one of their areas of overwhelm is in keeping all that information they gather from the web and/or forums organized and easily accessible. So, how do you keep track of those all-important pieces of information that you come across daily? Create a Resources Folder! And that folder can be set up [...]

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What To Do About Managing Your Emails Before It’s Too Late

Articles for Reprint July 6, 2008

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 asked my subscribers what their biggest office headache is email is right up there with the rest of them! Comments such as: “Emails – yikes!” “Responding [...]

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What’s my Top Productivity Tip?

Time Saving Tips May 23, 2007

I’ve been tagged by my good colleagues Jenn Givler and Karen Del’Marmol to share with you my top productivity tip! My tip is: Protect your time and use it wisely! I’d been thinking about what I would consider as my best productivity tip when, just this morning, I was talking to my colleague Cristina Favreau [...]

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