Tips for Startups and Entrepreneurs to Travel on a Budget
Ugh, another business trip. Waking up before dawn to go to the airport, squeezing into a coach seat, running into a business meeting, going back to the hotel, grabbing a quick bite of bad food, working until midnight to prepare for the next day’s meeting, putting out...
The Best of Both Worlds: Harmonizing Digital Assistants and Virtual Assistants
Many busy professionals dream about one day having the perfect digital assistant; a hand-held version of the computer on Star Trek’s Enterprise, complete with artificial intelligence, voice recognition, conversational skills, a perfect understanding of issued...
How to Successfully Integrate a Virtual Assistant into your Business Operations
If you're a small business owner or entrepreneur you’re constantly busy trying balance running your business, growing your business, and balancing your business with life. You’ve heard a virtual assistant can really save you time, but you have doubts about whether...
Success by Design: How to Structure Your Office Environment to Increase Productivity and Well Being
Let’s be honest: We all feel a tinge of envy when we learn about the new state-of-the-art campus that a tech giant has built in the heart of Silicon Valley. Google’s headquarters includes coffee bars, Lego play areas, and a dog friendly work environment. Food at...
How to Manage Social Media Risk (or, Don’t put a disgruntled intern in charge of your Twitter page).
Imagine waking up one morning to find that you’ve been attacked as a tyrant over your own company’s Twitter feed. That’s what happened to Robert Duffy, COO of Marc Jacobs, when an intern that was handling the fashion house’s Twitter feed, went on an online tirade...
Top Tools to Run a Virtual Marketing and Public Relations Campaign
When it comes to innovative tools to help entrepreneurs and businesses build and operate their company, there is an embarrassment of riches that we can take advantage of. I wrote earlier in the year about tools you can use when starting up your own business, and...
The Parent Trap: The Challenge of Balancing Work and Home, and how Family-Oriented Benefits Can Help
Paul Ryan, recently elected Speaker of the House, unexpectedly turned media attention to the issue of balancing work and family life. Reluctant to take the post due to the fundraising and travel time associated with the position, Ryan insisted on being allowed to...
Built to Win: What MLB’s Playoff Teams Can Teach You About Good Management
We already know this much about this year’s World Series champion – it will be an underdog. The American League Championship Series features the Toronto Blue Jays, whose appearance in the post-season ended a 20+ year drought, and the Kansas City Royals are trying to...
Management Insights for a World Gone Virtual
Technology does not impact our lives immediately, but in stages. The internal combustion engine-powered automobile was invented in the late 19th Century, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that the proliferation of automobile ownership resulted in droves of Americans...
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Spreadsheets: The Importance of Visual Learning in Business
By now it is commonly known that people learn and understand information in different ways. Many people identify with the “visual learner” category (including this author) and according to research 65% of the population are visual learners. Fortunately there is wealth...