Life Of E's

Question: Is it best to check with the district/organization who is paying for your travel before you make flight, hotel and rental car arrangements to find out what they are willing to pay you for your travel?  For example, if I make hotel reservations that cost $100/night and then the district/organization says that is too [...]

Tags: hotel, rental car, Travel, travel reimbursemnet

Question: I have some questions concerning travel. For some of these questions, I’m thinking long term. For hotels, is it best to try and stay at the same ‘chain’ of hotels when traveling?  I know many hotels offer benefit program which could save a lot of money in the long run.  And same question for [...]

Tags: airline, loyalty programs, perks, points, Travel

Question: For those of us who work primarily with schools, what are some options we have for making money during the summer months? Especially if money is still a concern, this could be a stressful time. Personally, I think I’m going to be okay, however, going a couple of months without any leads could put [...]

Tags: camps, consulting, earning money, employment, income, money, summer

Question: When using a rental car for traveling, in addition to charging the district/organization for the rental car, do you also charge for mileage? Posted by Billy Simms | 4/23/08 Answer: It’s one or the other.  I work out what’s going to be the most fair for the client.  For example, if I decide that [...]

Tags: car, expenses, lease, mileage, rental, rental car, Travel

Article from Kendall Summerhawk (As many of you know, I have learned A LOT from her and this was in this morning’s ezine and relates to some of what we were talking about on last night’s MEMc call): “Good Times or Bad Times? Who to Trust in YOUR Small Business” No matter who you listen [...]

Tags: instincts, Kendall SummerHawk, small business, trust

Suggestion from a member: Recently I listened to a free tele seminar about book publishing.  The speaker was Steve Harrison who had quite a VITA of clients.  The topic shared concerned the difference between successful authors like Rick Warren author of The Purpose Driven Life and  Stephen Covey with Habits of Highly Effective People to [...]

Tags: book publishing, FAME, Rick Warren, Stephen Covey, Steve Harrison

Resource: http://www.abdsurvivalguide.com/index.htm For those in MEMc (or for others you know) who are really wanting to be finished with their doctorates…but have that small thing of the dissertation sort of hanging out there. Looks like a great resource…and there are also ideas that many of you could model from their site and their offerings. Posted [...]

Tags: dissertation, doctorates, survival, survival guide

Suggestion: In a recent article in Alexandria Brown’s Marketing and Motivation Monthly newsletter, Lorrie Morgan-Ferraro of Red-Hot Copy) offered these ideas (among others): Build on a person’s experience of awareness by adding the element of time.  For example: Before you order today… After you make your decision to order… While you are filling out your [...]

Tags: Alexandria Brown, Lorri Morgan-Ferraro, Marketing, motivation

Suggestion: Cool tool that I never knew about in MS Word.  I learned about it while listening to a futurist talk about…uh, the future.  But he was also talking about how we aren’t as productive as we could be because we don’t even use the tools we have.  This was an example of a new [...]

Tags: AutoSummarize, summarize, summary Word feature, tools

Suggestion: On today’s Tier 2 call, we were talking about having speeches, workshops, teleseminars, etc. transcribed.  The person I’m using is Nina White and her site is http://www.awordwithnina.com/.  I have been paying $40 recorded hour.  I have been VERY pleased with the quality of the transcription and with the speed at which Nina gets it [...]

Tags: Nina White, scribe, transcribe, transcribing