If you are a new small business owner, you might have this question (as did one of our Life of E’s members!): When starting a business, how much letterhead and how many business cards do you think a person should start with? The big “breaks” in cost seem to be at 2000 sheets of letterhead [...]
Tags: branding, business cards, envelopes, letterhead, stationery
Recently, I received a business card from a professor that was identical in every way on both sides of the card – except one side was in English and one was in Spanish. Brilliant! This is something more and more of us may want to consider. It says something about us if we who are [...]
Tags: bilingual, business cards, English, multi-lingual, Spanish
During a recent Life of E’s Email Extravaganza, I received this question: Which credit card processing co. do you recommend for your shopping cart? At this point I am only accepting through PayPal but that may not work for government clients. My response: Here are two earlier responses from the blog on this: http://meggin.com/lifeofes/wordpress/?p=236 http://meggin.com/lifeofes/wordpress/?p=213 [...]
If you are a business owner and you intend to have your business grow, then you need to be working on the tasks, commitments, and projects that ‘only you can do’ and delegate the rest. You might have a question like this one asked by a Life of E’s member: I would like to start [...]
Tags: credit cards, delegate, delegating, employees, trust, workers
I’m sharing a recent article from Dr. Adrianne Ahern. I receive her newsletter and this one REALLY struck me and I wanted to share it. I’ve highlighted the parts that I think are not-to-be-ignored. It’s the third week of January and how many of us have already discarded our New Year’s resolutions? Obviously, I’m going [...]
Tags: Adrianne Ahern, anxiety, choice, facts, period
A recent Life of E’s Email Extravaganza yielded the following interaction between a Life of E’s member and me. Her question will be familiar to many readers: My current company (_______________) is my original brand. I have invested a lot of time/money/energy promoting this brand and it is doing fairly well. It is 100% of [...]
Recently, I got this question during a Life ofE’s Email Extravaganza: I am in awe of your output. You are constantly generating something! How do you do it? I want to create my own version of the Top 10 but am nervous that it will quickly overwhelm me. Here is my response: You are so lovely [...]
Tags: idea folder, ideas, output
The following article is used with permission from Karyn Greenstreet of Passion for Business. I asked if I could share it because it deserves wide readership and you may not have seen it if you aren’t subscribed to her free newsletter. A strange phenomena has been spreading like a virus over the past few months. [...]
Tags: protection, security, virtual assistant, website designers
On a recent Life of E’s Email Extravaganza, I was asked the following question (which is brilliant, by the way): When people call me through referrals, I find myself ‘marketing’ to them positively-listening to their needs, their panic-reassuring them etc; sometimes even answering questions, etc. They want me to come immediately (within a day or [...]
Tags: agreement, consulting, fees, payment
Question on a recent Life of E’s Email Extravaganza: If/when making the jump to leave a workplace, what considerations go into which ties to maintain with the greatest vigor? I know better than to burn bridges, but I’m curious as to which relationships prove to be the strongest and most helpful once you make a [...]
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