Tips For Work-At-Home Professionals
Being that I am a work-at-home mom, I spend a lot of time online — I go to school online, have conducted web, graphic, and virtual assistant business through eDesign-Pro since the beginning of 2005 (did business under Robertson eConsulting for one year prior to that), and have developed friendships and partnerships by connections I’ve ...
Read moreHOW TO: Organize Your Client Projects into Manageable Task Lists
Three words: Project Task List! If you are anything like me, you typically accept more than you should, have more going on in your life than just clients, and end up having to bounce back and forth between projects to make progress on all of your concurrent jobs simultaneously. Here is the strategy I developed ...
Read moreIs Working Online Killing Your Productivity?
One thing I’ve found over the last couple of years is that working online often kills my productivity. Being that social media is a large part of my business and my blog, it’s not difficult to get sidetracked reading tweets, checking out the news stream on Facebook, or monitoring keywords I’m tracking in Hootsuite. Before I know it, hours are gone and I’ve nothing to show for them. Another problem I run into is that while my laptop may be superbly organized, my desk typically isn’t so keeping a written to-do list or scheduling appointments and tasks in a written planner is rather pointless. In an attempt to get things in order, I worked out a few things that help me do more business and waste less time!