[ My Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] Yeees, I know LinkedIn® has a way to add bullet points to your About section. But the ones I've seen are unprofessional ('cutesy' icons, really), and LinkedIn keeps...
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Is the term “freelance” affecting your credibility?
The first rule of websites? "Never send your reader away from your website." Yep, that rule. The one I am about to break, so please come back. If you work on a contract basis, you may have considered: should you use the term 'freelance' to describe your...
[QW8] “How do I get past client objections?”
[ Quick Win posts – QWs – are brief items to help non-overwhelm your day. Enjoy! ] "Heard it all before, yadda, yadda, yadda." Of course. But how many of us paid attention? Writing a post on this topic was the farthest thing from my mind. (Except for the...
5 Steps to Non-Overwhelm [Redux]
[ Chapter 1 in my book is based on this post. ] As small business owners suffered through the 'overwhelm' known as 2020 (!), I know some of us used a bit of the shutdown time to re-work company procedures. In that spirit, I've updated the flagship to my...
[QW Bonus] Infographic: 4 Money-Saving Steps to Your First Draft
Two weeks ago, my talented VA created the infographic I vowed to generate. Two years ago. In all my spare time, right? When October rolled around this year, I did offer you my post on this subject: 4 money-saving steps to your first draft But I still didn't...
A fresh look @ follow-up
When my friend Shawn and I talked about meeting reminders, she gave me another excellent idea to research and share with you: “I’d like to find the best way to follow-up and thank clients. Has the etiquette around thank-you notes changed?” Funny you should ask. When I...
A fresh look @ meeting reminders
One great thing about asking your subscribers for blog post topics? They come up with countless ideas. Thanks to Margie G., an executive assistant for a racing team, we'll consider useful meeting reminders. The question that started it all As you might imagine,...
Step 7 to Non-Overwhelm: “Wrangle your admin and paperwork!”
[ This post is the base for Chapter 3 in my book, Welcome to Non-Overwhelm! ] Hey, fellow business owners! It is February. If you're in the northern hemisphere, like I am, you're probably asking, "Will this yucky weather e-v-e-r end?" [ And for my Aussie...
Risk management disaster: DON’T follow the ‘Dreamliner’ example!
Did you hear the one about the super-duper-best-thing-since-whatever...
Capture an entire webpage. No scrolling!
Are you a student? Business owner? Shopper? Or maybe a lookin’-for-that-next-car(er)? 😎 Do you need to capture online research and review it later? Read on, and I’ll dazzle you with my awesomeness. Oh. Did I write that out loud? What I really mean is ......
Step 6 to Non-Overwhelm: “Shut it down!”
[ This post was the base for Chapter 2 in my book, Welcome to Non-Overwhelm! ] In my 5 Steps to Non-Overwhelm post, I addressed creating and tweaking your business processes while leaving time for maintaining and growing your business. (It's interesting real-world...
“We didn’t catch it.” An expensive lesson in proofing our own work
I no longer take on proofreading projects, but I thought you might find some non-overwhelm help, here. This stuff is still happening, and your day can turn ugly fast! The project manager (PM) grabbed a 28-page training manual off the stack ... of 200 conference...
“My client stole some of my work!”
In July of 2018, one of your worst business nightmares happened to me. And it...
“Should I use links on my website?”
[ 2024 update: I no longer offer website testing as a service, but I still receive questions about using links on websites. I thought this might be a good one to add to the 'Non-Overwhelm' list for you. Here you go. 😎 ] Since I'm a website tester, people ask me for...
“I’m fed up with website hype!”
My friend (I’ll call her Sally) told me she was fed up with website hype. Hype cost her dearly. Sally had just paid a bunch o' money for a site update she couldn't use. I'll share my friend's costly story, but first: here's an idea that may help you before you're...
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