When you have an online business manager on your team, one of her primary responsibilities might be to partner with you to create your overall marketing strategy. That includes everything from brainstorming to campaign planning to hiring contractors to execute creative design and copywriting, setting up response tracking metrics, and so on. An OBM can… [Read More…]
What’s the Key to Summertime Growth?
Summertime is a period of growth for many businesses, and one key way to achieve growth is to take advantage of the experience and skills an online business manager brings to the table. What’s your summer growth vision? Do you want to expand your offerings? Increase the number of clients you have? Or simply grow… [Read More…]
Grow Your Business With This One Weird Trick Discovered by a Mom!
No, you’re not reading Buzzfeed. But despite the fun clickbait title, you actually CAN grow your business by working with an online business manager. And this one also happens to be a mom. A dazzling variety of entrepreneurs hire OBMs. Coaches, artists, writers, and CEOs contract OBMs all the time to manage countless business needs…. [Read More…]
Don’t Let Your Budget Beat You
For some entrepreneurs, budgeting for their small business is an unpleasant chore that starts and ends with dissatisfaction. You dread starting it, and at the end, you don’t feel like you got what you wanted. Or worse, you feel like the finances aren’t working out and you’re spending more and earning less than you anticipated…. [Read More…]
Show me the money!
What do you do when clients pay late or don’t pay at all? How do you manage when your cash flow suffers and your income is stunted? Hounding clients for payment can be uncomfortable, embarrassing, and no fun. However, it’s absolutely critical, especially in the first years of your business, to relentlessly track down delinquent… [Read More…]
Top 10 Reasons To Hire A Virtual Assistant
There are many reasons why you and your business can benefit from hiring a virtual assistant. Here are the top ten: Focus on work you actually enjoy Spend less time scheduling Stop having to do repetitive or tedious tasks Low cost versus hiring a full time staff member You feel overwhelmed with too much work… [Read More…]
Why Hire A Virtual Assistant?
There are literally hundreds of excellent reasons why you should hire a VA to help you. Here are some of the most common ones my clients cite: You’ll get support implementing business ideas and marketing strategies You’ll save time and energy You’ll stop spending time on tasks that leave you frustrated or bored You’ll be… [Read More…]
Tick Tock! Countdown To Tax Day!
Like sand through the hourglass, so go the days until April 15… Are you ready for tax day? Filing small business taxes sounds pretty simple. Just enter the number for your income, the number for your expenses, and boom, you’re all done! But the reality is just not that easy. When you get down to… [Read More…]
Back It Up, Baby!
Do you back up your computer files regularly? If not, you’re vulnerable to computer crashes, file loss, and serious destruction to your business. It’s really important to back up your files to an external hard drive or online back-up service, but sadly, too many people don’t even think about it until it’s too late. Windows… [Read More…]
Get Less Stressed
As an entrepreneur, your days are packed from morning ‘til night with important activity. You’re developing new materials, courting new clients, supervising a website makeover, emailing vendors and clients, creating your marketing strategy, maintaining files, keeping track of expenses… And what about making time for friends and family? Working for yourself is a lot of… [Read More…]