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Why Every Offline Business Needs a Website

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Have you ever searched for a specific local business online, only to find listings on other people’s sites? It’s hard to believe, but there are still quite a few brick and mortar businesses that haven’t created their own website yet. Without a website, businesses have no presence online. But it’s not just about keeping up with all the other local…

Warning – Don’t Fall Prey To Email Scams

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

I recently received an email phishing scam apparently “about customer complaints from the Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.” It caught me off guard for about a nanosecond but I know how easy it could be when distracted and busy to fall prey to one of these scams, click on an attachment or link and end up with a messy computer…

Building Your Business On Just 15 Minutes A Day

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

I think we’re all guilty of overestimating what we can get done in one day, and the number of projects we can work on at any given time. Writing a book in a week sounds fine, for example, until you realize that you’ve got a million other projects on the go at the same time! On the flip side, some…

Get More Leads And More Sales With WordPress

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Do you want to master WordPress? My friend and colleague, Angela Wills of Marketers Mojo, offers WordPress skills training with her monthly WP Study Group. I highly recommend Angela’s training. Her teaching style makes learning fun! She provides thorough coverage of each monthly lesson and schedules plenty of time for the follow-up Q & A session. Learn WordPress Inside-Out –…

How Tracking Your Time Avoids The Time Suck

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Do you ever find yourself regularly becoming engrossed in something that keeps you from doing the important things? Time suckers cause anxiety for every business owner, but the time suckers that are the biggest problem are the ones you aren’t aware of. Innocent activities that you do out of habit can cause a lot of wasted time. Some time suckers…

Try This Exercise To Uncover Your Brand Personality

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

You don’t have to be a big corporation to have great branding. If you’re thinking of branding your small business or you are considering re-branding, then you will enjoy this worksheet I came across in a recent mailing from Constant Contact. Download the Brand Personality Worksheet here (courtesy of Big Brand System) and use it to help you nail down…

Your Outsourcing Cheat Sheet

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

How will you know when you need to delegate and outsource? Take this little quiz to help you find out. You know it’s time to outsource when: [ ] You’re burned out from working too many hours a day and too many days a week [ ] You feel like you can’t take time away from your business and you…

Delegate Your Way to More Time

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

You can’t really get more time in a day. Time is one of those limited resources that you cannot create more of, or get back after you have wasted it. There are 8760 hours in a year, but we have to subtract out hours for sleeping, which we’ll make an average of 8 hours a night which leaves 5840 hours….

How to Create a Time Budget

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Jennifer Hazlett | 0 Comments

Do you find yourself wondering where the time went each day? Most of us wish we had more time but there are only 24 hours in a day. Chances are, the time you need is there (along with sleep time, too!) but you’re just not using it as productively as you should be. Time, just like money, needs to be…