After sharing in September how you can make the most of your relationship with your team and train them in a more effective manner, I wanted to pivot to talk about marketing and provide you with tasks that your team can help you execute. Continue Reading ￫
3 things you must do when assigning tasks to your team
When you hire someone for your team, it’s a huge relief and easy to start assigning all of the things you don’t want to do yourself anymore.
But almost every entrepreneur forgets that even the best employees need training to do things the way you want them done!
Welcome to our new video blog for She’s Got Systems – where entrepreneurs get more done in less time with systems that actually work. Continue Reading ￫
How to be a kickass boss
The delicious irony of entrepreneurship is that while you might have escaped the hierarchy and politics of a corporate office, there’s a lot to learn from the humble manager who you might assume is an a) waste of overhead spending, b) useless clog in the machine or c) an annoyance you’re glad to be rid of. Continue Reading ￫
Should you keep training or fire?
Welcome to our new video blog for She’s Got Systems – where entrepreneurs get more done in less time with systems that actually work.
Today we’re tackling the biggest question that entrepreneurs worldwide face after hiring a virtual assistant or team member when mistakes happen:
How do I know if this person needs more training or should be fired?
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Back to School Shopping for Entrepreneurs
It’s time for most students to begin the school year, and there are some great deals to be found in the back to school sales. Here’s my list of 8 favorites you can get deals on:
Systems for Social Media Management
There are 2 equally important aspects of social media management systems for entrepreneurs: getting your content out there and managing the time you spend consuming.
Today we’re going to focus on not getting sucked in when those notifications pop up, so our time is well spent on the shit we need to get done.
Systems for Blogging
Lately I’ve been working on systems for various types of marketing, and wanted to share some tips for blogging as a business strategy.
Before we dive in I should mention that not all bloggers are business owners and not all businesses have blogs.
It’s like this… if your blog (hosted independently, at WordPress or Blogger for example) is a place where you share posts and occasionally make money from ads or sponsors, it’s not necessarily a business.
Perseverance beats snooping (but snooping is more fun)
One of the things that has always fascinated me about entrepreneurship in general is that we want to know what everyone else is doing. What software they’re trying or the marketing strategy that went into a launch. We care about their brand colors and who designed that graphic and what camera they’re using.
Strangling your business one censorship act at a time
The longer I’m in the online business world, the more shit I observe. And there’s something that really needs to be said. Ready?
You can’t grow your business by stifling honesty and censoring your clients.
It’s going to backfire. Loudly.
How guilt is ruining your business
A few months ago I was in my weekly small group and we were talking about family expectations. That was when Georgine, a sassy retiree and grandma, said something that made me fall over laughing.
“In my family,” she explained, “the only thing worse than laziness was gonorrhea.”
I lost it.