If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Frank Robertson was a small business owner and entrepreneur. He was a sharp business man with years of sales and marketing experience. Still, he couldn’t see how Google+ Hangout offered unique opportunities to brick and mortar businesses.  He lacked the ability to envision them when they could give him a competitive edge. Then he found a mentor who showed him how to see and use the latest and greatest, like Google+ Hangouts with Live Stream. (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

Triple Power Play takes advantage of Google’s new Google+ Hangout as the foundation of their link triangulation strategy to build traffic & conversions. The beauty of this workshop is that most people haven’t fully appreciated how to apply this tool to grow their small businesses. (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

Happy New Year 2013! We’re now established in the new year. Here are some goal setting ideas to use the energy around this holiday just past to reach new levels in 2013. So today is the day to dream, to envision new successes and goals achieved! But what kind of goals do you dream of achieving? (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

As 2012 comes to its end, today, if you haven’t already done so, review the year now. (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

Keep in mind that I consider myself a knowledgeable user. That means I am not an expert. You can learn to do much more with them. I’m sharing these Small Business Productivity Tips with you because when I learned to use these tools, they made my life easier and more productive. They save me time and save effort daily. (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

Have you ever wondered do you really need to use checklists in your small business? The answer to that is, it depends. Just how important is it that everything is done right? What will it cost you to miss a step or forget something? (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

Mary Ann Black and her husband Chet have a small business as electrical contractors in Austin, Texas. They love taking care of their customers’ electrical and wiring needs. Indeed, they want to grow their business. Naturally sales training sounded like a good idea. The problem was they never felt comfortable with all the emphasis on telling, controlling, and closing, closing, closing. (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

Do you ever get tired of doing documents with the same layout time and again? Well, you could go to a previous one, copy the layout, delete the material relevant to the previous document and then fill it in for this particular need. Kind of boring and frustrating isn’t it? (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

As small business owners of a manufacturing company that makes specialty plastics for heavy equipment manufacturers, Tim and Joan Piper are always confronted with the need to find ways to save time, to be more productive. They discovered that small business productivity tips, while minor by themselves on a per time use, can add up to significant time savings and greater flexibility over a year’s period of time. (Read More …)  (Read More ...)

Small Business Productivity Tips are meant to give you little tools and actions that can improve your productivity in a real, though usually minor way. This week’s Jing video is about using Notepad, which is easy to ignore when compared to Microsoft Word or any of the word processors available with much more functionality. (Read More …)  (Read More ...)