The Receptionist

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Optix also optionally integrates with the ShareDesk Marketplace, allowing coworking spaces to advertise, fill their desks, and do all of their management in one portal. Optix features include booking management, invoicing, member-to-member messaging, and support.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

While this may seem like a reasonable request to make at first glance, it might not be all that easy if you don’t know what to do or expect when running an online business. Create a calendar with your time protection plan, this will ensure no confusion between work and play. Keep Up With Marketing and Advertising.

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Ruby

OCTOBER 3, 2023

million small businesses in America. If not—but you’re thinking about it—you need a solid business plan before doing anything else. And if you’ve already launched and are ready to scale , guess what—you need a plan, too! Either way, you’ve probably got a good idea of where you want your business to go.

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Success

JULY 30, 2024

That’s how long he plans to talk to you, until he knows everything about you. Since the movie Titanic was all the rage, he concocted a plan to sell shirts that read “Sank—get over it.” A few years later, it was acquired by his largest advertiser, Vocus (which would later be acquired by Cision).

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Participants can teach courses, mentor their peers, create lesson plans, and more. A small business may not have the same resources as Google or Amazon, but it can still build a culture of continuous learning. For example, McDonald's iconic Happy Meal was created by Dick Brams, a regional advertising manager based in St.

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Ruby

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Most small businesses need someone to answer phones, respond to customer questions, take messages, and route calls, as needed. In fact, many businesses can derive far more benefits from outsourcing to a virtual receptionist service provider. Let’s review the costs of each to find out which is right for your business and budget!

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Success

MAY 20, 2022

Partners should complement each other, says Denise Rodriguez-Lopez, a former n American Express OPEN Advisor, who consulted small businesses on partnerships. Create a mediation plan or a strategy to dissolve the partnership in the event the arrangement goes south. Figure out what you do best—and where you need help. Win-win-win.

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Ruby

JANUARY 23, 2024

Apply that age-old thought experiment to your small businesses. If you launch a business to sell a product or service but no one knows about it, will anyone buy it? Probably not. You’ll do it the same way you launched your business in the first place—by following a plan. In any case, you don’t want to find out.

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Ruby

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To succeed in today’s competitive landscape, your small business has to stay lean, scrappy, and resourceful. That includes finding free resources whenever possible, especially when it comes to one of your most important customer acquisition channels—your business phone! How does it work?

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Ruby

JULY 18, 2023

Then there are marketing and advertising costs…oh, and don’t forget paralegal and receptionist salaries! Finding funding Small business loans are an option but require putting up collateral. So, if you were planning to tackle these tasks on your own, we encourage you to think twice. A line of credit might be a better bet.

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Ruby

APRIL 19, 2022

The first step towards helping consumers find your business is implementing a strategic search engine optimization (SEO) plan. After all, when more people can find you, more people will do business with you! When is your business ready for an SEO plan? How can I find an SEO partner that’s right for my business?

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Ruby

MARCH 23, 2022

You invest in digital advertising, focus on your website’s search engine optimization , and promote your products on social media —but still could use a little more exposure to really hit your traffic goal. From SEO to paid online advertising, digital marketing incorporates all your efforts to bring more traffic to your website.

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Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

She served as the director of University of California San Francisco’s first-ever strategic planning process, a program executive for a $60 million higher education analytics engagement, the go-to-market leader for IBM’s Watson Education and a top business development executive for intellectual property licensing at IBM’s 12 global research labs.

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Ruby

JUNE 12, 2017

When you measure your small business up against the big guys, it can be easy to sell yourself short. But when you’re small, you’re more agile. And that’s great—successful businesses take risks! You might assume their greater resources give them a huge advantage—and often they do. Check your data.

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Ruby

JUNE 16, 2023

So you’re in the process of starting a new business! Hopefully, you’re brimming with self-belief and ready to take on the world with naught but a solid business plan, a box of swanky business cards, and a jaunty grin. It all feels too hard, so one by one, those big business plans end up relegated to life’s back-burner.

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Ruby

JULY 23, 2020

And I’m so excited to introduce our panelists today as part of our small business series: Business Unusual. Katie Hurst: Today, we’re going to be talking about moving forward, discussing what comes next and how businesses are planning ahead. I know you mentioned your husband also owns a small business.

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Ruby

MAY 30, 2023

It takes months of preparation just to plan for it. And as Thomas Edison said, “Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.” The more time you take to learn what you need to know and diligently plan your success, the better your odds of obtaining your goals. Are your financial affairs in order?

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Ruby

JULY 8, 2019

The following tools can help you organize meetings, track working hours, plan trips, optimize your and your team’s schedules, and more—all without consuming valuable time from your day. Avoid agency costs and start spreading your own message with these marketing, advertising, and social media tools. Calendly There.pm Calendly There.pm

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Launch Work Places

JANUARY 28, 2025

Small businesses and teams that need access to meeting rooms. young solopreneurs or established small businesses. Prepare Your Budget and Investment Plan You may wonder, how much does it cost to start a coworking space? After preparing your budget, consider making an investment plan.

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Ruby

JUNE 6, 2023

It’s easier than ever to outsource work to experienced freelancers and contractors who can support your small business remotely. They want flexibility and freedom of choice…so maybe your business should look for such qualities, too. Should your small business hire or outsource? So…to hire or to outsource?

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Ruby

AUGUST 31, 2021

Traditional recruitment sites To complement these tactics, we recommend advertising your open positions through traditional job posting boards such as LinkedIn, Indeed, and ZipRecruiter, as well as any smaller hiring sites specific to your industry.

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Work Life

JANUARY 19, 2024

I am an entrepreneur and a small-business owner. I stop myself: Is this marketing and advertising? Are advertisers just trying to get me to buy things? Now I’m looking for clues to help me understand why I made certain decisions that landed me where I am today.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If those decreases are a natural part of your business, such as seasonality, monitoring them may help you decide to plan a vacation or time off during that period. You can also plan to save more before the dips occur to make up for less revenue during that time. But there’s good news, too.

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Page Personnel

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In the contractor’s (or small business owner’s) mind, every holiday is a day when you’re not working, which means you are also not bringing in any money. On the other hand, with planning and communication, you can zone your time just as effectively as a contractor as you did as a full-timer. And that’s a good thing.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Most small or medium business owners have one common complaint. Your industry is supersaturated, and you are finding it hard to implement a good marketing plan. It makes sense for not only small businesses but also medium-sized businesses to cash in niche markets. Anyway, it makes sense right?

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Attendance Bot

JULY 28, 2023

Slack Pricing Tiers Free Slack’s free plan offers a range of basic features, including access to 10,000 searchable messages, one-to-one video calls, and 5 GB of file storage. It’s a good option for small teams or organizations just getting started with Slack. The standard plan starts at $6.67

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Ruby

MARCH 22, 2022

Refresh your marketing plan. A common mistake law firms make is waiting for business to slow down before increasing marketing efforts. As a result, you’ll keep your internal processes organized, your clients happy, and your practice profitable. When potential clients visit your website, you can control the content they find.

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Ruby

JANUARY 24, 2022

Small businesses can benefit from collaboration too— even with their competitors !) Keep branding consistent. Customers are always looking to get a similar quality of experience every time they engage with your business. These channels all play a role in establishing a business’s voice and credibility.

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Ruby

AUGUST 5, 2021

You’ve analyzed your competitors, mapped a customer journey, and highlighted the pain points of your potential clients and how you plan on addressing them. You’ve incorporated every buzzword and acronym your business guru (or the host of a business YouTube channel) told you to include in your sales and growth strategies.

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Ruby

JULY 10, 2020

An action as simple as finding a plumber to fix a leaky sink can bring someone into contact with multiple channels, opinions, advertisers, and behind-the-scenes systems. Customers expect better, more personalized service within minutes of reaching out to a business. Does your business stay true to its word?

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Ask a Manager

JULY 11, 2019

My intern asked if my pregnancy was planned. Her response was really odd — she asked if the pregnancy was planned. When I told you I was pregnant, you asked if it was planned. Most places advertise the openings they have. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. I’m pregnant with my first child.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 18, 2015

Late last year, a facility management position was advertised at my workplace as a full-time permanent role (rare in our environment). I’m the person who will be moving into the facilities management role next week, and Lavinia asked me to get in touch with you now to see if we can start planning for that transition.”

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 25, 2022

Yes, ideally the hiring manager would have let you know earlier, but it could have been a late switch in plans, and who knows what he was juggling at home that came up at the last minute and made video a bad idea. Your recent post about students assigned to go find free work with small businesses really struck a chord with me.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 29, 2021

A reader writes: I work as a project manager at a small business (~25 employees) and have been in this role for more than six years. About 18 months ago, we were looking for a new administrative assistant for the business. Covid threw a wrench in those plans, and I have very few prospects at this time.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

” The manager of my sales team requires us to read off our planned appointments for the week each Monday morning, plus a few other items. My husband manages a small business and this weekend there was an expo where his business had a booth. When I list off my work, my manager always asks, “Anything else?”

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 6, 2019

You could email them and say, “I saw that you used the event copy I wrote to advertise your X event. I wear the HR admin hat for a small business. Yep, that’s horribly unethical (and potentially illegal as well — you need to be paid for your work). Taking unpaid vacation to “save” paid vacation for later.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 17, 2022

Tell him that part of the job is committing to timelines so that people can plan, but that if something does come up that gets in the way, he should flag that for you immediately so that the two of you can figure that out (including reprioritizing if necessary). No current plans to offer it, just because of lack of time.

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