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Member You - Three Small Business Secrets to Getting More Billable Time
Free Advertising For Accountants And CPAs
There are dozens of ways that accountants, CPAs, and tax accountants can advertise the accounting services for free. The following is a bulleted list of just a sample of free advertising methods that can be used: Join clubs and associations. When you are a member of a club or association, like trade associations, social clubs, health clubs, or country clubs, it gives you the opportunity to network with other professionals in those clubs th
in your network who are better suited to serve them, retain the good will from the clients you are referring out, and free up all that time and energy to work with people and projects you love. Just by relieving all the stress you're under from your Clients and Projects from Hell, you make yourself open and available to more of your Ideal Clients and projects. And, have you noticed, you're more productive and efficient when you're working with your Ideal Clients and Projects? There are dozens of ways that accountants, CPAs, and tax accountants can advertise the accounting services for free. The following is a bulleted list of just a sample of free advertising methods that can be used: Join clubs and associations. When you are a member of a club or association, like trade associations, social clubs, health clubs, or country clubs, it gives you the opportunity to network with other professionals in those clubs th
Increased productivity = increased billable hours available
Put these 3 secrets to work in your business and get back valuable and billable time for doing more of what you love for your Ideal Clients!
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Making A Difference - Hospitality As A Career Option
Let’s get the facts straight. Working as a professional in the hospitality industry is no cakewalk. You are required to work long hours without the weekends off and round the clock during the holiday rush. To top it all, the guests are sometimes rude. It definitely takes nerves of steel to face all this and more. It’s a torture to see your kith and kin have the time of their life holidaying while you slog to please others’ folks. And all this with a
As small business owners we’re in business to make money doing what we love. And that means we need enough billable hours to cover our expenses, our payroll, upgrades in skills and technology, and profit. But if stay in business for any length of time, you eventually reach the point where you just don't have more hours in the day to give to your business. After all, you have a personal life too. (If you don't have a personal life, you really need to work on that.) So, if you've maxed out on the hours you have available to build your business, how can you get more billable hours?Let’s get the facts straight. Working as a professional in the hospitality industry is no cakewalk. You are required to work long hours without the weekends off and round the clock during the holiday rush. To top it all, the guests are sometimes rude. It definitely takes nerves of steel to face all this and more. It’s a torture to see your kith and kin have the time of their life holidaying while you slog to please others’ folks. And all this with a
You have to get those billable hours from time you are currently spending doing other activities in your business. Here are some ways to do that:
- Delegate out anything you hate to do or aren't good at doing in the running of your business. For example, I hate filing and organizing all my reference materials. So I hire a professional organizer to come in once a quarter to file all the papers I've stacked up, to set up any new files I'll need, to pack up old files on inactive clients and projects, and to reorganize my 10 bookcases. She can do all that for me in 3 hours. When I was doing it myself it took me forever and it was never completed because I'd let anything else distract me from it. So, finding just the right reference book or file was not only hit-or-miss at best, it again took too much of my time. How much time can you recover by delegating out activities and tasks you don't want to do, but that have to get done to keep your business running smoothly?
- Automate or computerize administrivia, including making regular backups of your computer disk drives. (I learned to get my backups automated after I'd lost my entire contacts database, including my appointment schedule sometimes I'm hardheaded about these basic business maintenance things!) In addition to now having automated backups of my computer disks, here's a sample of what else I've automated:
- Contact management and scheduling
- Taking class registration and payment
- Distributing class notes and materials
- Taking coaching payments via the Web
- Notification to follow-up with clients
- Subscribing and unsubscribing to my ezine
- Broadcasting of my ezine
- Payment and delivery of digital products
- Creating eClasses from templates
- Subscriptions, payment, and delivery of eClasses
- Tracking of billable time
- Creating time reports
- Invoicing
- Expense and revenue tracking
- Gracefully get out from under your most time-consuming and energy-draining clients and projects. I know it's difficult to say "No" to a client or a project in today's economic climate. But you can refer these clients and projects to competitors in your network who are better suited to serve them, retain the good will from the clients you are referring out, and free up all that time and energy to work with people and projects you love. Just by relieving all the stress you're under from your Clients and Projects from Hell, you make yourself open and available to more of your Ideal Clients and projects. And, have you noticed, you're more productive and efficient when you're working with your Ideal Clients and Projects?
Increased productivity = increased billable hours available
Put these 3 secrets to work in your business and get back valuable and billable time for doing more of what you love for your Ideal Clients!
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Preparing For A Job Interview: Techniques You May Not Have Thought Of
Preparing for a job interview is an area that job searchers typically don’t do well. In my experience as a recruiter, I have dealt with many people who work really hard to make it to the interview stage and then get lazy.Trying to wing it during an interview – just showing up and expecting to think of answers off the top of your head – is no way to prepare for a job interview.Properly preparing for a job interview is what sets successfu
ways to do that:
Preparing for a job interview is an area that job searchers typically don’t do well. In my experience as a recruiter, I have dealt with many people who work really hard to make it to the interview stage and then get lazy.Trying to wing it during an interview – just showing up and expecting to think of answers off the top of your head – is no way to prepare for a job interview.Properly preparing for a job interview is what sets successfu
- Delegate out anything you hate to do or aren't good at doing in the running of your business. For example, I hate filing and organizing all my reference materials. So I hire a professional organizer to come in once a quarter to file all the papers I've stacked up, to set up any new files I'll need, to pack up old files on inactive clients and projects, and to reorganize my 10 bookcases. She can do all that for me in 3 hours. When I was doing it myself it took me forever and it was never completed because I'd let anything else distract me from it. So, finding just the right reference book or file was not only hit-or-miss at best, it again took too much of my time. How much time can you recover by delegating out activities and tasks you don't want to do, but that have to get done to keep your business running smoothly?
- Automate or computerize administrivia, including making regular backups of your computer disk drives. (I learned to get my backups automated after I'd lost my entire contacts database, including my appointment schedule sometimes I'm hardheaded about these basic business maintenance things!) In addition to now having automated backups of my computer disks, here's a sample of what else I've automated:
- Contact management and scheduling
- Taking class registration and payment
- Distributing class notes and materials
- Taking coaching payments via the Web
- Notification to follow-up with clients
- Subscribing and unsubscribing to my ezine
- Broadcasting of my ezine
- Payment and delivery of digital products
- Creating eClasses from templates
- Subscriptions, payment, and delivery of eClasses
- Tracking of billable time
- Creating time reports
- Invoicing
- Expense and revenue tracking
- Gracefully get out from under your most time-consuming and energy-draining clients and projects. I know it's difficult to say "No" to a client or a project in today's economic climate. But you can refer these clients and projects to competitors in your network who are better suited to serve them, retain the good will from the clients you are referring out, and free up all that time and energy to work with people and projects you love. Just by relieving all the stress you're under from your Clients and Projects from Hell, you make yourself open and available to more of your Ideal Clients and projects. And, have you noticed, you're more productive and efficient when you're working with your Ideal Clients and Projects?
Increased productivity = increased billable hours available
Put these 3 secrets to work in your business and get back valuable and billable time for doing more of what you love for your Ideal Clients!
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How To Evaluate A Product Opportunity
Day after day my in box, and I'm sure yours as well, fills with opportunity propaganda on how to make money. Do this, and poof, you're rich. Become an affiliate and sell my ebook, and poof, you're making lots of money. I don't know about you, but I can't tell what’s a good opportunity and what’s not any more. Because of this, I created a list of nine criteria, a sort-of checklist, to use when I do find something that I don't think is full
u recover by delegating out activities and tasks you don't want to do, but that have to get done to keep your business running smoothly? Day after day my in box, and I'm sure yours as well, fills with opportunity propaganda on how to make money. Do this, and poof, you're rich. Become an affiliate and sell my ebook, and poof, you're making lots of money. I don't know about you, but I can't tell what’s a good opportunity and what’s not any more. Because of this, I created a list of nine criteria, a sort-of checklist, to use when I do find something that I don't think is full
- Contact management and scheduling
- Taking class registration and payment
- Distributing class notes and materials
- Taking coaching payments via the Web
- Notification to follow-up with clients
- Subscribing and unsubscribing to my ezine
- Broadcasting of my ezine
- Payment and delivery of digital products
- Creating eClasses from templates
- Subscriptions, payment, and delivery of eClasses
- Tracking of billable time
- Creating time reports
- Invoicing
- Expense and revenue tracking
Increased productivity = increased billable hours available
Put these 3 secrets to work in your business and get back valuable and billable time for doing more of what you love for your Ideal Clients!
C
Bark, Bargain, & Bring Onboard
The popular junior Democratic Senator, Barack Obama, told Time Magazine (2/20/06), "I probably always feel on some level I can persuade anybody I talk to."Wow. I wish I could do that. How do we get other people to do what we want?When I was a kid, my life was all commands: "Clean your room." "Get in the car." "Put some clothes on, people are coming over." And if I ever asked "why," I got the same response: "Because I said so."
coaching payments via the Web
The popular junior Democratic Senator, Barack Obama, told Time Magazine (2/20/06), "I probably always feel on some level I can persuade anybody I talk to."Wow. I wish I could do that. How do we get other people to do what we want?When I was a kid, my life was all commands: "Clean your room." "Get in the car." "Put some clothes on, people are coming over." And if I ever asked "why," I got the same response: "Because I said so."
Increased productivity = increased billable hours available
Put these 3 secrets to work in your business and get back valuable and billable time for doing more of what you love for your Ideal Clients!
C
Motivation - It Starts with Acknowledgement
Acknowledgement is about recognition or attention from another person. It can be physical such as - a pat on the back, a touch or a handshake. It can also be psychological such as - a word of praise, a compliment, even a "hello!" It can even just be time spent with the person.Physical and psychological attentions are absolutely vital to human beings. We all need it and we need it every day. However, it must be said that every human being
in your network who are better suited to serve them, retain the good will from the clients you are referring out, and free up all that time and energy to work with people and projects you love. Just by relieving all the stress you're under from your Clients and Projects from Hell, you make yourself open and available to more of your Ideal Clients and projects. And, have you noticed, you're more productive and efficient when you're working with your Ideal Clients and Projects? Acknowledgement is about recognition or attention from another person. It can be physical such as - a pat on the back, a touch or a handshake. It can also be psychological such as - a word of praise, a compliment, even a "hello!" It can even just be time spent with the person.Physical and psychological attentions are absolutely vital to human beings. We all need it and we need it every day. However, it must be said that every human being
Increased productivity = increased billable hours available
Put these 3 secrets to work in your business and get back valuable and billable time for doing more of what you love for your Ideal Clients!
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