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Articles by Kelly Sims

• Workaholics, It's Time to Get a Life!
  Workaholics often make the mistake of believing that in order to achieve success, they must spend an extraordinary amount of time working. The fact is that spending too much time at the office is likely hurting other areas of their life and could even be damaging their career.
  Published 12Mar2009, viewed 247 times

• Creative Thinking to Keep Your Business Afloat
  Given the global economic climate, many entrepreneurs find themselves struggling to market their businesses while keeping costs down. Creative thinking could be the solution to keeping your business afloat.
  Published 03Mar2009, viewed 269 times

• The 5 Ws of Newsletter or Ezine Publishing
  Many online businesses are not doing one of the most important things that will help them to achieve a successful business: they are not creating an opt-in list. By distributing a newsletter or ezine, you not only generate your list, but you get to promote your business to people who actually want to a highly targeted group.
  Published 26Feb2009, viewed 303 times

• How to Work with a Virtual Assistant
  Working with a virtual assistant is a fantastic way to grow your business without the stress, hassle and cost of hiring an employee. By following a few simple steps to verify that you and your virtual assistant are compatible, you can ensure that you get the most out of working with him or her.
  Published 03Feb2009, viewed 343 times

• Use your Blog to Get More Bang for Your Marketing Buck
  The biggest challenge facing businesses today is how to maintain growth given the current economic turmoil. Having a marketing strategy is extremely important, but even better is having a strategy that will cost you little or no money.
  Published 24Jan2009, viewed 339 times

• Grow Your Business on a Budget
  Many small business owners struggle with the difficulty of trying to determine how to build their business with a limited budget. Growing your company doesn't have to mean hiring an employee, or contracting an expensive advertising firm, and it doesn't have to mean spending a fortune.
  Published 22Aug2008, viewed 245 times

• 7 Signs That You Are a Workaholic
  Achieving your goals and ambitions does not mean you have to spend every waking minute working. And in fact doing so is more likely to gain you a burn-out rather than success. The following are 7 signs that you need to re-evaluate your work habits and start working smarter instead of harder.
  Published 16Jun2008, viewed 410 times

• Email Management: Don't Let Email Run Your Life
  Email is one on the most valuable timesaving tools available in the business world today. Unfortunately far too many of us are becoming virtual slaves to it. Learning some simple ways to manage your email could help you to gain back the time that it was intended to save.
  Published 03Mar2008, viewed 359 times

• What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Comparative Advantage
  As a small business owner, you have many responsibilities. What if letting go of some of those responsibilities could actually make you more money? By learning the meaning of comparative advantage, business owners stand to increase their profitability and perhaps even take their business' to the next level.
  Published 31Dec2007, viewed 387 times

• A New Year's Resolution: Simplify Your Life
  Entrepreneurs sometimes live such fast-paced lives that many miss really living. Learning how to work smarter instead of harder will undoubtedly allow you to simplify your life, and will allow you more time for the important things in life, without sacrificing your ambitions.
  Published 17Dec2007, viewed 368 times

• Is Your Business Ready for the Holidays? 6 Ways a Virtual Assistant Can Help
  The holiday season can be an extremely stressful time for small business owners. Between holiday arrangements for work and for home, who has the time to actually enjoy themselves? The holidays don't have to be the hectic time that many entrepreneurs have come to expect. By seeking the help of a qualified Virtual Assistant, you can gain the time you need to put some joy back into your holidays this season.
  Published 03Dec2007, viewed 312 times

• Write Articles That Get Noticed
  Creating articles is easy; just about anyone can do it. The hard part is creating quality articles that convert readers into customers and that will be picked up for use in newsletters, ezines and blogs. Following some of these simple steps may help you stop simply writing articles, and start writing articles that get noticed.
  Published 26Nov2007, viewed 341 times

• 5 Ways to Keep Your Customers Coming Back for More
  Customer service should be at the forefront of every business' list of priorities, but all too often is neglected. Learning how customer satisfaction impacts your business and adopting methods to ensure your customers' satisfaction will help keep them coming back for more.
  Published 19Nov2007, viewed 313 times

• How to Increase Traffic to Your Website: The Art of Article Marketing
  Every savvy business owner with a web presence wants to drive traffic to their website. Some optimize their sites and then wait months for the search engines to pick them up, while others spend money on advertisements and pay-per-click campaigns. These are all great methods, but the best way to drive highly targeted traffic to your website is article marketing. It may only cost you a little of your time, and can be very effective.
  Published 12Nov2007, viewed 357 times

• Virtual Outsourcing Can Make Your Business More Profitable
  If you are a small business owner, you should know how valuable your time is, for, as they say, time is money. But, if you are like most small business owners, a great deal of your time is likely spent on paperwork and other functions that take time away from activities that are more profit inducing. Imagine how much more profitable you could be, if you could virtually erase such tasks.
  Published 05Nov2007, viewed 367 times

• Mom Entrepreneurs: 7 Ways to Find More Time
  As a mom and an entrepreneur you know the value of time because you simply have too little of it. Learning some simple strategies that can add minutes and maybe even hours to your day could be the means to attain that perfect balance that all moms strive to achieve.
  Published 29Oct2007, viewed 343 times

• 4 Steps to Combat Website Plagiarism
  Given the frequency of copyright infringement on the internet, it is in every business’ interest to know how to effectively combat such website theft. Although it cannot always be avoided, business owners should be aware of the steps that can be taken when they suspect their website’s content has been plagiarized.
  Published 22Oct2007, viewed 351 times

• Getting Things Done: How to Conquer Procrastination
  Procrastination is a great obstacle to running your business efficiently. In addition to creating stress and anxiety, delaying performing tedious jobs can actually be harmful to your business. Having some tools in place to defeat the urge to procrastinate will almost certainly make you a more effective worker and may help make your business a greater success.
  Published 15Oct2007, viewed 391 times

• Common Challenges of Home-Based Business Owners and Their Solutions
  Operating a home-based business is a fantasy for many aspiring entrepreneurs. Although working from home has some incredible benefits, it is not as trouble-free as one would think. Having a plan in place for dealing with the difficulties facing your home-based business will help you to maintain its continued growth.
  Published 08Oct2007, viewed 357 times

• Starting a New Business: 4 Ways a Virtual Assistant Can Help
  Starting a small business requires one to face many challenges. Among these might be a lack of funds or space to begin hiring the qualified staff you need for a successful start. But, in today's world of superior internet technologies, this needn't hinder your business' growth. Hiring a Virtual Assistant may provide the ideal solution for start-ups facing such obstacles.
  Published 01Oct2007, viewed 428 times

• Manage Your Email Before It Manages You
  Email is a communication tool that was designed to help save time. Unfortunately for some, it has the opposite effect. Many find themselves stuck in front of their computers responding to scores of emails throughout their busy workday, thus reducing their efficiency. Setting up a simple system to respond and organize emails could help to gain back the time that was intended to be saved by email.
  Published 24Sep2007, viewed 435 times

• 5 Steps to Find the Perfect Virtual Assistant for Your Business
  If you have decided to join the ranks of those entrepreneurs that are using the services of a Virtual Assistant, you may be asking yourself how to find the appropriate one. Hiring randomly is usually not the best strategy. Taking the proper steps to chose a suitable VA will undoubtedly pay dividends.
  Published 17Sep2007, viewed 383 times

• Is Your Home-Based Business Reaching its Full Potential?
  Operating a home-based business can be quite a challenge. Limitations in space and/or budget constraints may have you thinking that you can’t get the help you need in order for your business to reach its true potential. In today’s world of superior internet technology, there is no reason for your business’ growth to be hindered by its lack of employees. Virtual contracting may be the answer to improve the profitability of your business.
  Published 11Sep2007, viewed 417 times

• Driving Customers to Your Website: Article Marketing for the Non-Writer
  If you are not article marketing, you are missing out on one of the best ways to drive targeted traffic to your website. Even if you are not a writer, there are still ways that you can reap the benefits that writing articles bring.
  Published 03Sep2007, viewed 344 times

• Simplify Your Life: Hire a Virtual Assistant
  Many entrepreneurs struggle with time management when it is not necessary. New technologies and the growth of the internet have made it possible for just about anyone to get the help they need, without the space considerations or expense involved with hiring an employee. Simplifying the lives of business owners can be as effortless as sending an email.
  Published 27Aug2007, viewed 502 times

• Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents, Oh My! Understanding Intellectual Property
  Intellectual property is a topic that should be familiar to all business owners, but unfortunately, many simply don’t know much about it. This article serves to inform entrepreneurs about trademark, patent, and copyright law in order to ensure that they can properly protect themselves against illegal reproduction of their work.
  Published 22Aug2007, viewed 652 times

• 5 Steps to Organize Your Way to Efficiency
  Organization plays a major role in how effective you are as a worker. The following tips serve to help entrepreneurs and employees alike to achieve efficiency through organization.
  Published 16Aug2007, viewed 424 times

• Help! I’m Overwhelmed with Paperwork: Options That Can Get You Back to the Business of Your Business
  The majority of small business owners simply spend too much valuable time on administrative tasks. This article serves to help entrepreneurs make an informed decision about whether or not it’s time to get help, and if so, what kind of help.
  Published 06Aug2007, viewed 417 times

• 5 Tips to Help You Find a Healthy Balance Between Your Business and Your Family Life
  This articles helps entrepreneurs in finding ways to balance their business and their family life. By creating and maintaining a schedule, making to-do lists, prioritizing and delegating tasks even the busiest of entrepreneurs can achieve a healthy balance.
  Published 27Jul2007, viewed 405 times

• 7 Ways to Defeat the Fear of Failure of Your Small Business
  The purpose of this article is to help potential entrepreneurs to gain the confidence to start their small business. It provides useful tips on ways to defeat fear of failure by learning, staying positive and being passionate about the venture which they are about to pursue.
  Published 19Jul2007, viewed 340 times

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