‘”Woosterizing”
One of my favourite clients coined a term that I wanted to share.
Woosterizing
I think it is a really neat term. What is Woosterizing? Continue reading
The 12 Days of Christmas
You could be singing this song this time next year, if you partner with Prime Admin Solutions
On the first day of Christmas, my VA did for me
gave me more time for my family
On the second day of Christmas, my VA did for me
formatted my report
and gave me more time for my family
Where can you more productively spend your time?
You’ve consulted with your clients, done the workshop and now you’re:
- sitting at your computer in the evening compiling evaluations, typing wall charts, preparing reports and managing the output from the workshop
- or worse, you’re doing this during business hours when you could be doing more financially beneficial work
A client has signed the contract for you to do a three-day workshop. You have put together the material for the workshop and just like the example above, you’re formatting the prework, slides, etc. in the evening or during the business day.
Doing your own admin work either in the evening or during the day has a cost to you and your business. In the evening you are missing out on quality family or relaxation time and during the day you could be doing more lucrative work that you are an expert at.
Why not outsource your admin to Prime Admin Solutions. As a consultant you can build that into your client billing. The big companies, Mercer, AON, PWC, etc. all do it. As an independent consultant you can too!
Contact Prime Admin Solutions today to learn more about how you can increase your business, save money and have an excellent work-life balance.
Take a look at the two pictures below. Which scene would you rather see yourself in?
Prime Admin Solutions can take are of things so that you can be in the second picture while your word processing is taken care of.
Websites no longer have to be mysterious
15 years ago websites were mysterious. You HAD to know HTML or Dreamweaver and later CSS. This is no longer the case – yes, a little HTML knowledge is good to have, but content management systems like WordPress makes it easy. Continue reading
Happy Father’s Day – How often do you see your kids?
A 2010 survey by Career Builder on work life balance for working fathers who are the sole breadwinners in their family reported that “close to four- in-ten (37 percent) of working dads said they spend two hours or less with their children each work day. More than three-in-ten (35 percent) reported they missed two or more significant events in their child’s life due to work in the last year”. Continue reading
Google Apps for Business
I recently signed up for the Premiere edition of Google Apps for Business with the expectation of being able to receive and send email wherever I am and thought, “for $50, it’s not a lot to lose if I don’t like it”
I discovered another feature that makes me absolutely LOVE this application – the ease and speed of sending large attachments. I sent off a message with a 6 MB attachment the other day and it zoomed out of my mailbox. I remember watching emails be sent from Outlook with large attachments and the painful slowness of it.
I highly recommend this product to anyone who is considering the switch.
Why it makes sense to hire a professional
Some business people think it’s cheaper to hire a high school student to come into their office and do their email campaigns and other admin tasks. I’d like to present one example of why it sometimes can be a false economy.
I had a call this week from a lady who owns a little store who was totally panicked. She had hired high school students to do office work for her while she was out front selling. She trusted them to do their jobs and found out that her mail campaigns hadn’t been going out, that when they were sending messages, they were taking a very long time to send them out.
After a short conversation I was able to calm her down and offer her a solution to her problem. I gave her a service to sign up for an account to send email campaigns and when she gets her account set up, she’ll be forwarding me the information to import her list into the mail service and send out her email blast.
Sometimes it is more cost effective to pay a little more to someone who is experienced and professional versus an inexperienced high school student. This is one of them.
A tool every entrepreneur needs
Neat Receipts is a great little tool that no business should be without. What is it? It’s a business card scanner, a receipt scanner and a portable scanner. How can Neat Receipts help you?
- Receipts:
- It’s not just a scanner. Neat Receipts can take your scanned receipt and break it down into a spreadsheet by place of purchase, type of product, cost, taxes. It also keeps a scan of the receipt for your records.
- Business Cards:
- Scan your business cards using Neat Receipts into a format that you can use to upload to your contract management system (such as Outlook, SalesForce, Zoho, etc.). Saves typing. Yes, you’ll have to review to ensure the right items are put in the correct fields, but it saves on errors.
- Portable Scanner:
- Are you frequently on the road and need a quick scan of a document to email to someone? Neat Receipts can scan quickly to a PDF and it fits in your suit case.
This is a product I highly recommend. Of course, if you are extremely busy and don’t have the time to do this yourself and you have a pile of business cards and/or receipts you would like scanned, Prime Admin Solutions can help you with that.
For more information on this really cool product, check out: The Neat Company’s website.
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