Krishna De of Biz Growth Live will be interviewing me on May 14th about delegation and about working with a virtual assistant.  Check out her blog entry below and click through to her website to sign up today!

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to have more free time for family, friends and fun?

Or pehaps you want more time to work on key activities serving more clients?

But what might be stopping you is that you are concerned that if you employed more people in your team it would be a huge impact to your fixed overheads?

Or perhaps you are not sure how to delegate more areas of responsibility to members of your team?

Well delegation and outsourcing strategies to grow your business is the subject of our next ‘Biz Growth Live’ where I will be in conversation with Erin Blaskie, Virtual Assistant.

Erin is the author of “30 days to delegation”and has worked with many business coaches taking on accountabilities so that they can focus on client centred work while Erin and her colleagues manage the administration for their growing businesses.

So if you are a small professional services firm and you want to explore how you could delegate or outsource adminstration to a virtual assistant or perhaps you are already working with virtual assistants and want to explore how you could be even more effective in leveraging these relationships to create more time for family, friends and fun, then join me for the no-cost Biz Growth Live call on the 14 May 2007.

Today I put the finishing touches on a website for a company in Bermuda. The company’s name is SwitchWorx and you can visit their new website at http://www.switchworx.com. SwitchWorx is Bermuda’s premier structured cabling provider and they service many of the large companies in Bermuda.

Check out their website and please let me know what you think.

For the past month, I have been working closely with Sheri McConnell of the NAWW to switch her site from a standard website to a blog site - powered by WordPress. I am pleased to announce that it is done and ready for public viewing.

Please visit http://www.naww.org… Take a look and let me know what you think!

There are many resources that I use on a daily or weekly basis that are online-based.  I wanted to share these with you and get feedback from you on what your favorite resources are.  I think we can all benefit from knowing what it is that helps make our businesses efficient and cost-effective.

(1) WordPress

WordPress is a valuable one for me since it powers my website / blog, powers the websites and blogs of my clients and allows me to openly communicate with my website visitors and with my clients.  It also allows me to communicate with my friends and family easily and efficiently through my personal blogs.  Speaking to the business side of things however, it becomes my main portal for all things related to my business and industry.

(2) MyHours

Each day, I log the hours that I put in for my clients.  It is one of the most important tools for me because it solely determines my invoicing and billing for my clients.  On the 15th and the 30th of each month, I pull a report from MyHours and invoice my clients according to what appears on that report.  The program is great because it is web-based which means that from any PC, any location, I can log the hours I am working for my clients.

(3) Cartville / 1ShoppingCart

In terms of list building and tracking contacts, I use Cartville.  I don’t use the software yet for the shopping cart or the affiliate program but I do plan on taking advantage of those items once I get to a point in my business where I have more products than services or at least an equal amount of each.  Cartville is a great business tool and 90% of my clients also use it for their business.

(4) PayPal

In addition to MyHours, PayPal is the other most important resource in terms of invoicing and billing.  PayPal is the website that I use to invoice my clients and because it is free (except for a few small fees on transactions) it keeps my costs low.  The other benefit is that I receive payments quickly rather than waiting on checks from other countries.  My clients in Australia can easily submit payment for their invoices just as quickly as a client in Canada or the US could.

(5) Feed Demon

Feed Demon is a feed reader that I use to track other blogs on the internet.  I subscribe to the blog’s feed and I track them in my software program so that I can stay current.  What is great about Feed Demon is that it keeps the posts organized by subject (I specify what subject I want them to fall under) and also by individual blog.  This is great because it allows me to stay connected to the bloggers that I enjoy with minimal effort.  Time is something we, as entrepreneurs, highly value and this cuts down my time spent on blogs.

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In the months since January, I have been asked to do a radio interview, two teleseminars, I’ve been asked to do joint ventures and I’ve seen an increase in my overall exposure.

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Your feed reader can become a great business and marketing tool for
you if you take advantage of what it is has to offer.  I have been
thinking a lot about how I use my feed reader and I wanted to share the
top five ways that I have found.

Here they are in no particular order: 

(1) Build a Network – when you’re reading other
people’s blogs, you’ll develop a network of like-minded individuals and
people who share similar interests.  You can also meet people to
provide your products and services to and you’ll find people who have
products and services that you need.

(2) Create Links Back to Your Site – by commenting
on other people’s blogs, you’re creating a search engine ranking fiesta
and all roads lead back to you!  Page rank is determined by a number of
things but one of those things is how many incoming links you have to
your website.  The more links, the higher you rank.

(3) Gain New Readers – when you comment, a
hyperlink is placed to your site on that person’s blog.  When their
readers are reading through the blogger’s article and they get to the
section where the comments are, chances are they will be interested to
see who said what about that entry.  Especially if it’s something that
is borderline controversial!  If these people like what you said,
they’ll most definitely click through to learn more about you.

(4) Keep Up with the Latest Trends – good bloggers
will be writing about the things that they think people need to know
about.  Capitalize on this by watching what people are blogging about. 
Most often, you can pick up a trend and this will give you some hints
and ideas as to what YOU should be blogging about.

(5) Build Up Your Expert Status – when you comment
on other people’s posts and you offer some of your own advice, people
will begin to view you as an expert in your own industry.  The one
thing to remember though is that you should make your comments count. 
Commenting on blogs just to say “Nice post” won’t get you the same
attention.

This e-book was written to help my clients, and business owners around the world, defeat the demons that are holding them back from delegating.  Delegation is the MAIN way that you can free up your time from doing the menial, day-to-day tasks and focus on the money-making tasks like product creation, service creation, etc.

If you find that you’re struggling with delegating and you need more information on this, consider purchasing this e-book.  For a small investment of $37, you’re getting an 80+ page e-book that contains tips, ideas, resources and tools to help you implement a process of delegation and start freeing up your time TODAY!

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