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Help Desk Systems: Could Your Business Benefit?
Photo credit We're taking a look at help desk systems today! I talk a lot about e-mail overload and even how to make email fun, but what I don't talk about as much is the customer service side of email. E-mail is still a relatively young technology, but it's not the only technology that you…
Headway Theme Review: A Versatile Drag and Drop WordPress Framework
I get a lot of questions asking me what theme I use and whether my site actually runs on WordPress, so I'm taking you behind the scenes in this Headway theme review. I've been making websites for 15 years now, and blogging for 10 (back when we called them "weblogs" and we updated static pages…
How To Test Your Website On Mobile and Other Devices
In today's video I'm going to show you how to test your website. As you know I'm a huge fan of getting feedback on your website to make improvements with my Website Checkup Tool. There are a couple of other things that you might want to test on your website, and one of them is…
Introspection & Intention Setting: Ownership
For the past few years I have been doing an introspective intention setting exercise at the start of the year. I love my strategic planning exercise to get really concrete and detailed about what I want to accomplish in the next year, and this intention setting exercise has a different way of guiding me along…
Strategic Planning Exercise: How To Grow Your Business in 2013
New year's goals and resolutions get a bad reputation, but this strategic planning exercise is meant to be the antidote. We all start out with a lot of excitement and energy for our goals, but many times they aren't sustainable goals, or we quickly forget why we wanted to achieve them in the first place.…
How To Find Time To Write
Short of having your dog write for you, you might be asking yourself how to find time to write… and you'll be surprised to find out that I was able to find more time to write while walking this little cutie! I've written about how to write faster here before, because as bloggers and writers…
How To Keep Track of Bills
You're a busy business owner, or you just happen to have a lot of other things going on in your life, and you need to figure out how to keep track of bills and finances more effectively. There a lot of systems and programs out there that can tell you how to keep track of…
How to Make a Presentation Fun & Prezi Review
Maybe you've discovered how to teach classes online, now you're working on your content and you're asking yourself how to make a presentation fun… while teaching and educating your audience. There's actually an art to making a presentation fun, and entire books and courses have been created on the topic. Having been on the receiving…
Email Game Review – How To Spend Less Time On Email
My clients and business friends often mention their email overload situations… but what if we could turn things around using something as simple as making an email game? As children, we used to turn everything into a game. From tea parties with faeries, to jumping over sidewalk cracks to avoid crocodiles, and playing hide and…
How To Make a Quiz For Your Email Optin
I get a lot of questions asking me which tool I used, how to make a quiz, and how I hooked it up to my e-mail marketing system. This week I'm excited to be going behind-the-scenes and teaching you how I created the much-talked-about Website Checkup. No more mysteries, I'm showing you how I did…
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