New Year, New Productivity Tools
I’ll be doing my business planning in a few days and I’m excited to use my new productivity tools. Here they are, in order of techie-ness:
Filed under Productivity | Tags: productivity tools | Comment (0)Do You Need to Break Through?
Sometimes in life, you get stuck. You get into a rut. You may know it or not, but you will most likely stay there. It’s nice and comfortable and safe there. But it doesn’t change the face that you’re stuck. What’s holding you back? How can you move forward?
We found out many of the answers this week. Today we concluded a week-long breakthrough session in Mom Masterminds with our business mentors, Kelly McCausey and Lynette Chandler, and life coach Aurelia Williams. Every morning this week, we had an hour-long teleconference to discuss various issues that could be getting in the way of growing our businesses. Kelly and Aurelia kept the topics a surprise to us each day so we would not come to the teleconference with our preconceived notions. As a result, our minds and hearts were open and we candidly explored our feelings, attitudes and behavior.
We covered the following topics:
Filed under Motivation, Productivity, Resources | Tags: business planning | Comment (0)An Early Christmas Gift
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I don’t know about you, but I’m already having a very Merry Christmas!
It all started when Kelly McCausey, co-founder of Mom Masterminds and an amazing business woman, announced on WAHM Talk Radio and on Twitter that she is granting the wishes of work at home Moms. Not really thinking much about it, I submitted my own 3 wishes. I sent 3 whole wishes, ranging in cost from under $100 to almost $700 - something I had been wanting for months but couldn’t cough up the money for.
Well, what do you know? Kelly helped me get my $700-wish!
Filed under Productivity, Recommended, Resources | Tags: wahm | Comments (2)How to Buy a Website: 10 Things to Look At
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I ran into another website for sale this week, and I was very, very interested. It’s in a niche that’s consistent with the website that I bought a few months ago (http://www.natural-moms.com), it’s profitable, and the current owner is a trusted co-member at Mom Mastermind.
When I bought natural-moms.com, I did so almost without a thought. When I first contacted the owner, I was almost already convinced that I wanted to buy it.
This time, I went about it more thoughtfully. After all, after almost 4 months of running natural-moms.com, I knew which questions to ask. Specifically, I considered 10 things (in no particular order):
Filed under Home business ideas | Tags: how to buy a website | Comments (4)The Power of “Someday”
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One of the things David Allen advises in “Getting Things Done” is to have a folder (both physical and virtual, in your Email) for “Someday.” This folder is for anything that you would like to do sometime in the future, but without a definite timetable except … someday. It could be anything, from books you’d like to read, to places you’d like to visit, to projects you’d like to undertake. I never really saw the value of this folder until recently.
Even though I had decided to focus my home business efforts based on my back-of-the-church-flyer plan, I found myself still getting distracted by the many - and tempting - offers of various Internet marketers and copywriting gurus. I had exerted a lot of willpower to unsubscribe from many lists I had joined, but still I was getting quite a few a day. On the other hand, I found these useful to me as I wrote marketing copy for my own clients, as they provided me a swipe file for what’s effective in terms of E-mail marketing, squeeze pages, and sales page.
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