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Small business owners (as well as any other working person, which I hope is all of us!) often wonder how to hire help that’s not too expensive, but gets the job done. You might have had these questions, as asked by a Life of E’s member: Can you give us more information about using teenagers [...]

Tags: Delegation, teen employees, teen tasks, teenagers, teens, workers

In a recent article by Gigi Rosenberg entitled, “Critiquing Critique Clubs” (Writer’s Digest March/April 2009: 12-13), she offered a brief quiz along with the rest of her ideas: Is your critique group working for you? Take this quiz to see if you should hit the road. Are you writing more? Are your fingers “on fire” [...]

Tags: articles, Books, mastermind, response, Writer's Digest, writing, writing groups

Not long ago, one of the women in my mentoring group posted this question on our blog: In addition to your main company, you created Pumpernickel Publishing, LLC.  I recall you mentioning that you separated your publishing company from Emphasis on Excellence, Inc. from a business perspective. I see myself creating a lot of my [...]

Tags: Books, business license, Business-Set Up, credit cards, QuickBooksPro, shopping cart

Recent question during a Life of E’s Email Extravaganza:  Do you truthfully believe those of us without PhDs, a university teaching career, an established speaking reputation, and published books can actually draw a large enough audience for teleseminars and webinars to even cover the costs of producing them (i.e., shopping carts, Adobe subscription, etc.)? And [...]

Tags: audience, credentials, money, reputation, Speaking, teleseminars

If you are a speaker – doing workshops, keynotes, trainings, and the like, you may be wondering, “How important is it for me to have my own speaker/microphone system? If I am going to buy such a system, what should I be looking for?” If you are an established speaker who ONLY does keynotes for [...]

Tags: Anchor Amp, Fender Passport, speaker, speaker system, voice, workshop leader

Essentially all email programs give you three addressing options: To: cc: bcc: The “To” option is obvious and in general, so is the cc option, but in case there’s any question about the latter, it is intended to be used for the people you are including in the message but for whom you may not [...]

Tags: bcc line, best practices, cc line, email, etiquette, manners, prevent spam, security

Recently when consulting/coaching with a Life of E’s member, I framed these questions for her to consider.  See if answering them will be helpful to you, too. What do you want? What are you willing to do or go through to get there? What will you have to give up? What will you gain? Is [...]

Tags: change, choices, Coaching, decisions, growth, life satisfaction, questions

So here’s my first question to you, ‘With a title like Teaching: The Greatest Career on the Planet, what educator wouldn’t want to read it now?!

If there has ever been a time when teachers need to be inspired, this is it.

Tags: education, Grayson Walles, inspiration, schools, teachers, Teaching

Excellent question sent in by a Life of E’s member about how to organize his computer (and let’s just say that a LOT of us need help with this one!): I would like to get my computer files organized. It seems that I have files all over the place and sometimes I have a hard [...]

Tags: categories, computer, documents, Gina Trapani, map, organizing computer files

I received an email from Alicia Smith, someone I’ve taken many classes from, and she recommended the class “Become a Blogging Maniac.”  I went to the site and learned more about it – and figured, WTH (What the Heck), it’s only $97 and it’s taught by Bea Fields, someone else I’ve taken classes from in [...]

Tags: Alicia Smith, Bea Fields, blog, blogging, maniac