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Advice for Small Business Entrepreneurs

Advice for Small Business Entrepreneurs:

I think the most important thing about running a company is to remember all the time what a company is. A company is simply a group of people. As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, and you have to be a great motivator. You have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers. If you water flowers, they flourish. If you praise people, they flourish, and that’s a critical attribute of a leader.
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Best Tips to Organize Your Tasks

Best Tips to Organize Your Tasks:

Capturing is half the battle. The rest of the fight takes place in the way you organize your tasks. Writing down the things that you need to remember on index cards will only get you so far, I’m sorry to say. If we all stopped there, we would simply have piles of index cards all over our desks and kitchen counters. If the goal of capturing things is to act on them so that we can make our clients happy and grow our freelance business, then we need to do something with all of them.
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Helpful Hints to Capturing Everything

Helpful Hints to Capturing Everything:

Hey there, busy freelancer. I have a feeling you’ve already received a few emails today. What? More than a few, you say? And a few phone calls, too? Yeah, that comes with the territory when you run a business: people are always wanting to hire you.

That last phone call you took probably had a task or two buried within it that you are responsible for. Your email inbox is most likely overflowing with to-do items for projects, both current and future. And, heaven forbid, if you’ve actually met with a client in person, you probably picked up a few things to add to your list there as well. (more…)