Life of E's

Question: When asked to name my “title”, what is the best option.  Owner?  CEO?  Manager?  President?  Does is really matter? Answer: It depends on what type of “entity” you are.  Here is a link to a blog answer I posted a couple of months ago: http://memclub.typepad.com/memc_blog/2007/06/what-do-i-call-.html Personally, I prefer Empress, but apparently, that is not [...]

Tags: business title, manager, officer, owner, president

Question: My accountant has recently sent me a letter that he is down sizing and is unable to continue on as my accountant.  As I look for a new accountant, are there certain features I should be sure to shop for?  Do you have any recommendations? Posted by Jeni Blakely | 8/23/07 Answer: This is [...]

Tags: accountant, accounting, bookkeeper, CPA, QuickBooks Online

Question: I’m getting ready to visit schools to market a staff development program I have to offer.  At a minimum, what should I take with me?  Business cards, flyer with information about the program, etc?  Also, can you give advice about cost-savings when it comes to designing and printing flyers.  Posted by Billy Simms | [...]

Tags: fact sheet, flyer, flyers, Marketing, promotional items, promotions

Question: What is a reasonable amount to spend to get a website designed and built? Posted by Meggin after talking with MEMc members on today’s Doctor is In call | 8/18/07 Answer: I will answer this a couple of ways:      Per hour charges/fees As with most things in life, there is a low [...]

Tags: fee, fees, hourly fees, project fee

Question: How important is it for us to have our own speaker/microphone system?  If we are going to buy such a system, what should we be looking for? Posted by Billy Simms | 8/9/07 Answer: Unlike my previous answer about the LCD, this is something that most groups don’t have, so it’s worth looking in [...]

Tags: Fender Passport, mic, microphone, Shure microphone, speaker, speaker system

Question: How important is it for us to have our own LCD projector?  If we are going to make most of our presentations at schools, won’t they have LCD projectors available?  Right now, I’m looking at this from a financial standpoint.  If we are going to buy an LCD projector, what type of features do [...]

Tags: Billy Simms, Hitachi, LCD projector, Panasonic, projector

Question: Meggin,  I am a visual person and love the mind mapping process.  I take out the plain white paper or larger poster paper and my markers and fill it until there isn’t any white space left.  Now, I want mind mapping software for presentations.  After using a search engine, I was amazed at the [...]

Tags: David Allen, mind map, mind mapping, mind mapping software, MindManager Lite, Nancy Margulies

Suggestion: I am a huge fan of Visual Thesaurus and I subscribe to their daily word of the day and ezine.  Today, there was a great article about coming up with a name for your company, etc.  Click on the link above and it should take you to the Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus homepage and then [...]

Tags: company name, naming, Visual Thesaurus

Additional resource: I recently was investigating the rate for editing myself.  I found a resource to consider.   http://www.the-efa.org/res/rates.html Posted by Kelly Eveleth | 8/5/07

Tags: editing, proofreading editing resource

Question: Is it appropriate to take products to sell when providing staff development for educators? Posted by Billy Simms | 8/5/07 Answer: Ooo-wee….this is a HUGE question.  I’m going to come back to this one with a few recommendations, but I wanted to give everyone a short answer… It depends.  This is an area where [...]

Tags: Products, selling