templates
Even Solo Businesses Need Nurture Marketing
This week’s free template is for a type of marketing that every small business needs, even one-person businesses.
It’s called Nurture Marketing.
The template walks you through the steps involved in setting up a nurture marketing program (also sometimes called “drip marketing”) for your business.
As always, it’s something you can do for yourself. But it’s also [...]
Get Control Over Your Email Inbox
This week the free template is a big one - Getting Control Over Your Email Inbox .
Email overload is a HUGE issue for almost all of us.
The sheer volume of emails most of us get is overwhelming…
It’s a pain to wade through all the junk, deleting email after email, to find the messages that [...]
This week’s free template: Social Media Marketing
As I mentioned last week, to promote the Help Without Hiring Toolkit, we’re making one of the 50 templates available for free each week.
This week’s template is one of the Easy Projects: Social Media Marketing.
This is a great project to give a virtual assistant - you can get a lot of value out of doing social media marketing but it’s time-consuming, so having someone else do the work for you gives you really good leverage.
Here’s the trick…
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How to define a project the right way: 6 critical pieces of info
Whenever you give anyone a project to do, you’ll get the best results if you provide these 6 pieces of information:
1. What do you want done?
Describe the project and list the process you want them to follow.
2. What else is needed?
Provide whatever materials they are going to need to do the work. This might include a contact database or some files or a list of websites to visit. Whatever it is, list what you are providing them and where to find it or how you are getting it to them.
3. Your deadline
When should the project be finished? If it is a bigger project and there are sub-deadlines,
How to get freelancers up to speed fast - part 1
What is “A Better Way to Work”?
Welcome to my blog, which I’m calling “A Better Way to Work.”
Why? Because I believe that the idea of “work” that most of us grew up with – a 40-hour-a-week job working for someone else, with a commute, a boss and co-workers, vacation and sick days, office politics and all the rest – is going [...]
