Your office is the place where you develop your career and nurture your professional skills. For a lot of people, it’s a place where they build their dreams, whether they plan on becoming a great artist, a top-level executive, or a full-fledged entrepreneur. As such, it is important to make one’s office space more inviting and more favorable for analytical and creative thinking. In this article, we’ll fill you in on a few tips that you can take into consideration if you want to add a bit more life to your work environment. Install Water Features Few other things make a professional space … [Read more...]
How Tailwind Helps Bloggers
Tailwind Tribes are taking bloggers by storm and helping them gain more “pins” as well as traffic to their blog. If you are a blogger you have probably heard bloggers raving about Tailwind. Tailwind does cost to join and has a monthly fee, but I haven’t really heard many bloggers complain as the success you gain outweighs the small fee. Tailwind allows you to schedule pins for months ahead, so if you take time one day to plan out and schedule your favorite blogs pins and incorporate some of your own pins, it can make for the perfect combination for your Pinterest boards. When you team up … [Read more...]
Ways to Keep Personal Finances from Impacting Your Business
Whether you are a new or long-time business owner, personal financial hardships can happen to anyone at any time. In a 2016 article on Forbes.com, it was reported that about half of Americans are not prepared to handle a financial emergency. Because the health of your personal and business finances are so closely related, an issue in one area can quickly cause problems in another. If you find yourself having personal finance issues, is there any way you can prevent those problems from affecting your business? Thankfully, the answer is ‘yes.’ Discover three proactive strategies that can … [Read more...]
10 Reasons Working at Home Rocks
If you work at home or plan to, you will reap some amazing benefits. I love working at home for so many reasons! I am going to share 10 reasons working at home rocks. If you have been debating transitioning to work at home, I say weigh your pros and cons and give it a try if you feel it is beneficial. I have found that it has been a huge blessing in so many different ways! 10 Reasons Working at Home Rocks 1. Perfect location. 2. Can stay at home with kids. 3. Can stay in pajamas if you want. 4. Eliminate distractions. 5. I can work early in the morning or late at night and not have … [Read more...]
Why You Can’t Trust Screen Captures
As a blogger and virtual assistant who has worked from home since 2006 in various positions such as data entry, product uploads to an e-commerce site, blogging for myself and clients, social media management, chore threads and other tasks, I know all too well that screen captures aren't a 100% form of reliability. I am going to discuss why you can't always trust screen captures and then provide you with an idea on how you can ensure every screen capture you share is shown to be 100% legit, regardless of what others say. Why Write About Screen Captures? During the past year, I have been … [Read more...]
What To Do When You Don’t Feel Like Working
Ever have a day where you feel your motivation switch is turned all the way off? On those days I find it hard to even want to get around and start the day! How do you get motivated on those types of days? I have some tips on what to do when you don't feel like working but have to. It isn't like we can have sick days when those days happen. If we could that would be totally awesome! You might have a deadline that is inching closer and you don't have the option to procrastinate one more day. Can you imagine the release of stress and guilt that bottles up when you know you have a huge … [Read more...]
Steps For Improving Business Communication Skills
Making sure you have strong communication skills in your business life is key. This is one life skill that can really help you to have success in your business or job. I am going to share steps for improving business communication skills if you feel you need help in this area. Having strong business language will help you climb the career ladder with ease. It shows you are professional, knowledgeable, and efficient. These simple ways for improving business communication skills below will help you so much in your business. By gaining the competency over these skills it will help you … [Read more...]
Moms: Why You Need a Planner Like Now
Every mom needs a planner, especially when you start to have more than one kid or one kid in multiple activities. There's no way for one human brain to keep track of everything by memory. Old age sets in, mulit-tasking no longer seems productive and you are simply a human who is imperfect. When you use a planner, as a mom, you become more reliable and efficient in your mom job. More Organized It will keep уоu оrgаnizеd. Yоu саn have еvеrуthing in оnе рlасе niсе, nеаt, аnd tidу. Nо mоrе ѕсrар рареrѕ floating аrоund in уоur purse or fоrеvеr ѕеаrсhing thrоugh оld tеxt mеѕѕаgеѕ аnd еmаilѕ … [Read more...]
My Story – Why I Work From Home Full Time
In order to tell you this story, I must first start with the journey to my work at home adventures. Let’s flash back in time to the year 2006-ish. I had been working over two years in an office as an administrative assistant. I loved my job. I love my boss Barry and my coworker Debbie. They were and still are amazing people in my opinion. There was nothing wrong with my job, but I was pregnant and getting sick often. My memory recalls being so sick that I felt as if I was becoming an unreliable employee and had to make a choice to resign from my amazing position in this office. I wasn’t quite … [Read more...]
The Downside of Working from Home
Working from home is amazing, I love being able to use skills I have learned over the years in a work at home business. With that being said, working from home comes with its downsides. In the nearly 9 years I have been working from home as a virtual assistant, direct sales rep and a blogger I have connected with many work at home people. There are so many work at home people who can relate to that downside you have when it comes to making your own living from home. The Lack of Income There are downtimes in any business structure. You have quarter one that may be slow due to tax season … [Read more...]