Resolution Best Practices for 2009

Some thoughts of mine on making resolutions this year.

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How to get listed locally in Google, Yelp and Yahoo.

It doesn’t take a web professional to get your business listed in Google, Yelp and Yahoo. In this video I will walk you through the process of listing your business with these websites.

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Get control of your Inbox

There was a time in my life when email handling would bring my productivity to a standstill. It was often that I put off an email response because I believed it deserved more time then I had to offer at that moment. The problem that brought is that I often forgot or the email became buried under many others. Over the years I have found that any response to an email is better then a good response at a later time. Last year I was receiving a great deal of emails inquiring about pricing and packages I offer for wedding photography services. Each email was unique enough that a boxed answer or saved response would not be sufficient. Emails were falling through the cracks. Often it was weeks before I responded due to being so far behind. Brides act quicker then that. Besides that, I was guilty of saving emails after I respond to them. I would have 100 or so in my inbox that I kept there in case a response came back with out the first communication attached to it. When that grew to difficult to manage I set up folders in my email application to keep them organized. I never went inside those folders. If I need to find something, a quick search would bring me what I desired thus rendering the organization of my emails pointless. It would be no different if they were all in one folder. After watching the InboxZero video I decided to implement that as my new policy for email handling. On occasion I backslide, but it does not take as much effort to get back to an empty inbox as it used to. For a person who receives 50-100 legitimate emails a day and 4-5000 in spam, inboxzero has helped me beyond measure. I suggest you watch this video and use from it what you believe would work for you.

What is this recession you speak of?

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What Recession?

Your advertising = Fail

In a downturn market it is very easy to think that we should go out into the back yard and dig up the stash we were saving for a big advertising campaign. However I believe that in the market we are in today, that would prove futile. I am a huge believer in community. I do not believe in hit or miss marketing. Huge newspaper and yellowpage ads are the way of the past. Watch this video; Gary V does a great job of illustrating my point.

Thrive in this Recession

It is all to easy to fall into the all to familiar survivor mode when money seems tight. I would like to offer a different approach to take. Rather then sit back and hide in the corner until it’s over try making the most of the situation. Today I am talking about how to thrive in this so called recession we are experiencing.

Circle of Influence vs. Circle of Concern

I know the video for this podcast is super choppy, I am sorry about that. Just close your eyes I will have that fixed next time around.

“You can either be proactive or reactive when it comes to how you respond to certain things. When you are reactive, you blame other people and circumstances for obstacles or problems. Being proactive means taking responsibility for every aspect of your life.”

“We can’t do anything about things beyond our control so we might as well keep on focusing energy forward on the next thing we can create.”

Circle of Influence vs. Circle of Concern

If your business is not growing, watch this video.

If your business is not growing like you expected you should do what I did, join a referral organization. Watch this video to learn what I did to achieve my definition of success.

If your business is not growing, watch this video.

Reading is the CORE to scaling your knowledge as a business person.

If you plan to keep ahead of the curve in your industry you need to be reading. Listen to my thoughts on reading and make it a part of your day.

Reading is the CORE to scaling your knowledge as a business person.

Things You Should Read: Love Is The Killer App

If you read any book this fall I suggest that it would be Love Is The Killer App by Tim Sanders.

Things You Should Read: Love Is The Killer App

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