In this two-part series, we share our best practices for online marketing. From how to manage your social media platforms, to Google reviews and analytics. We hope you’ll refer to these articles often as you work to refine and perfect your well-oiled marketing machine.
Great calendar management keeps you from hitting walls. It creates both structure and flexibility. It supports your strategic plans, breaks your goals down into bite-sized attainable pieces - and keeps you focused on what matters, not just what’s on fire.
There are very few weeks actually left in this year and for many businesses, those weeks are some of the busiest - both personally and professionally. This month, we want you to do something really, really difficult: stop for a second, and prioritize.
The protein to your operational meal is the creation and maintenance of powerfully resilient processes. The clear reason why you’re doing a thing, when you’re doing it, who is playing which part, the itty-bitty, nitty-gritty steps along the way, and the end game… all in one beautiful clear written (adjustable, editable, scale-able) document.
Oh how we love September at Admin Slayer. All of our business owners and slayers are back from their holidays and we are hitting the ground running. These past few weeks have been nutty - in a great way…
Cheri’s typical day of wrangling the family and then settling down to focus on client work is much more enjoyable now that she was finally able to say goodbye to the commute and work entirely from home.
When you’re working away on a business in startup mode, there are a lot of messages floating around you about passion and hard work and sleepless nights. That is, often, simply expected. It’s how many people start their businesses - and it’s not wrong. But it’s not sustainable, and it’s not a business.
Are you ready??? September, that month of new beginnings, is just over the horizon… As you shake the lazy days of summer out of your head and start thinking about how you and your business will WIN in the last 4 months of 2019, your mind could very well turn to marketing.
Summer is often a time when thoughtful introspection occurs, perhaps as you gaze over the ocean, swing in the hammock, or paddle on water. It’s a time to recharge, reconsider, and reset. It’s just the right time to think about your own Emotional Resilience.
No, this isn’t going to be a little chat about your feelings - so don’t run away just yet. Emotional resilience is one of the most vital kinds of resilience a business owner can build. It’s your ability to persevere through difficult times. It’s optimism, and awareness of your own feelings, where they come from, and why. It’s believing you - and no other - are in control of your life.
Happy End of June! Nearly half of the year is already behind us, and those goals you set 6 months ago are coming to fruition, or tossed, reformed, and adjusted to meet with reality. What are you doing to set yourself up for great success in the last half of the year?
What we rarely consider, because we, as business owners and entrepreneurs are naturally superhuman, is what happens if you cannot - physically or mentally - show up for your business? It’s a bleak consideration. Many of us just toss the idea away, simply seeing it as either impossible or unsolvable.
When leaders aren’t personally impacted by the change (their jobs, scope of their work, etc.) and they’ve been involved in discussions and planning it for months, there seems to be an expectation that employees accept the change and get on board quickly.
As you heal yourself with self care, open up your weeks and days with delegation and time-blocking, you’ll find that varying forms of nourishment unfold before you. Start paying attention to your energy levels as you explore this area of your life and learn what kinds of things really add to that core driver that IS the fuel behind your business: YOU.
There’s a reason you chose your partner, (or will, if you’re currently single) and a reason they chose you (ditto). Your entrepreneurial drive was likely one of the many things they found so attractive. Apply the passion that you bring to your business to every corner of your life, especially that all-important partnership. Success is far more fun when you’re together.
This month, we encourage you to focus on the key source of energy and growth in your business: YOU. In part one of a two part series on personal resilience, we take you through the actions and non-actions that can help you heal throughout and after those trying times.
The evidence is here. Mindful time will benefit your health, relationships, and business. Common excuses such as, “I don’t have time or space, my mind is too busy, I have physical or emotional pain,” are just self-defeating stories. Start Small. Five Minutes a Day.
The combination of expectations, from ourselves as well as others, that we “should” be able to knock the socks off our businesses, families, personal development, health care and exercise regime, and somehow actually have friends and time to write that book or learn that language or travel or…well, it’s just tiring. So, if a sabbatical is impossible… what can you do?
As April is coming to a close, the upcoming month is a great time to think about your technology, not only because it contains World Password Day, but also because now that all the craziness of tax season is over, why not give yourself something else to be concerned about?
The golden ticket in marketing isn’t a billboard in Times Square. It isn’t premium placement in your local newspaper or a really great event sponsorship that offers you a table in the lobby. The best marketing happens organically, seamlessly and seemingly effortlessly, straight from the lips of others.
