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...
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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!”
Note: Step 7 is expanded in chapter 3 of my book, Welcome to Non-Overwhelm!...

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...

Step 6 to Non-Overwhelm: “Shut it down!”
In my 5 Steps to Non-Overwhelm post, I addressed creating and tweaking your...

“We didn’t catch it.” An expensive lesson in proofing our own work
The project manager (PM) grabbed a 28-page training manual off the stack ... of 200 conference copies. She. was. livid. She rolled up the book, brandished it like a mini sword, and gave her team the evil eye. "Ten of us reviewed this. TEN. And we didn't catch it." A...

“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?”
Since I'm a website tester, people ask me for advice from 'the other side' ... the angle of the person who sees the good and the bad. They wonder if links are a positive or a negative for their pages. Well ... this depends on the reliability of the links. I use very...

“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...

Rescue your proofing budget!
Do you remember that D+ report in high school? The one with sentence fragments and wrong words in place of the right ones? Yeah. That report. Mom wasn't happy. Let me help you avoid this problem and save money on proofing your company documentation. ’Cause in the real...

‘Newsjacking’ Harry and Meghan
To paraphrase the classic song, "We're just wild about H-a-r-r-y." For Brits and Yanks, the May 19, 2018, wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is still on our minds as this posts 18 days later. If you are a writer, you can use this topic tomorrow or 10 years from...

5 Steps to ‘Non-Overwhelm’
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