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How Web Hosting is Like a Free Puppy
Without getting too deep, I want to share with you a few “secrets” I’ve learned along the way to avoid 95% of the issues that typically come with having a site live on the internet.
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Facing the Sting: Why Solopreneurs are destined to stay that way forever
I just found my way to a post that stopped me dead in my tracks and lit my bottlerocket to the moon. This guy is bananas – as a bit of a marketing snob and wordsmither myself, I’m mesmerized by Peter Shallard’s (@PeterShallard) poignant way of communicating the honest-to-God truth about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur.
In his post, “The Truth – Why Solopreneurs are destined to stay that way forever,” Peter cuts right to the soul of what is keeping so many independent professionals stuck
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Working with Virtual Assistants – 5 Key Lessons Learned Along the Way (Part Two)
As a business owner, you want things to be streamlined and systemized as much as possible to reduce your own learning curve, turbulence from changing to new systems frequently, etc. You will need tools for time tracking and reporting, invoicing and collecting payments, project management, email marketing, and database management. Through some trial and error, we’ve found a suite of tools that work fantastically … one of the things I looked for when choosing our tools was API integration capabilities.
I want the tools we’re leveraging to integrate well with other tools we use. I also learned a hard lesson and now skip the more obscure free tools. We pay for a lot of our tools, and we use the “most popular” tools in the marketplace: Basecamp, Google Apps, Freshbooks, SalesForce, MailChimp, 1ShoppingCart, Hoot Suite.
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Working with Virtual Assistants – 5 Key Lessons Learned Along the Way (Part One)
A few years ago, like many of you, I came to a crossroads in my business where I had to look at hiring an assistant, both to support MyStrategicMarketer.com and to work with my clients.
I have learned SO many lessons about working with a virtual team — and some of them came the hard way. I could probably write on the experience of working with a virtual assistant for days, both the good at the bad, but I wanted to narrow it down to some key points. Here, then, are a few important tips.