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Whether you are scheduling a client call, group coaching, a mastermind meeting or even a night out with friends, here’s a great tool to use!
It’s called “When is Good” and it’s creator has been working hard on making it easier to use and adding more functionality! (Yes, I have blogged about this tool before and it just gets better and better!)
“When is Good” helps you find what day and time works best for everyone. Here’s how it works:
- Click the calendar grid for all the days and times that are good for you - you get a link to email to your invitees.
- Your invitees see your proposed times and click on when they are free.
- You then visit your results page and see when everyone can meet and viola you have a meeting date and time choosen.
I’ve created a test event so if you’d like to check it out visit: http://whenisgood.net/test123
You can also view the results at: http://whenisgood.net/test123/results/7u1W2q
Create your own event at www.whenisgood.net
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July 8th, 2008
I’m back from my 5 days of camping and 3 days of working on my business “vacation” a.k.a. “staycation”. A staycation is a vacation that is taken at home.
Although I wasn’t home the whole time, I do not consider any time off a vacation until I’ve left the province of Ontario. But this time around I really needed some time away from my laptop. When I was writing my book back in March and April, I didn’t take a day off at all. In fact between February 19th and May something, I took one day off. So when I booked this camping trip at the beginning of June, I could feel some stress begin to ease. The sheer excitement of looking forward to a vacation, and yes, even a staycation, is enough to put a smile on our faces. Have you noticed this happen to you too?
In the last few weeks I have had a number of “Recession: Media Myth or Reality?” conversations. It seems everyone is talking about it in their newsletters, podcasts and in mastermind groups. I will be sure to write a post about this, not to jump on the bandwagon, but to give you a couple of quotes from leaders in the industry about this dirty “R” word! 
Another thing I have found interesting is the number of people who are talking about being more productive. It’s like they are reading my brain or something! :) I’ve got more on that with some tips in an upcoming post as well.
(Psssssssst…have you noticed how I’m blogging about what I’m going to blog about? It’s a trick I’m using to keep myself accountable!)
So it’s the day after a vacation and what am I doing? I’ve learned from previous “post-vacation-days”, not to schedule any meetings for 2 days after you are back to the office. Why? There are a number of reasons.
- You may still have your vacation brain on and you may not be ready to give your all to these meetings.
- You have a ton of emails to go through. If you fill your day with calls then you won’t get through to them for a number of days or burn yourself out your first day back from vacation.
- You may have run out of groceries, or worse, coffee, and you just don’t have the energy and time to get through your day or even run to the grocery store to stock up on the essentials.
Another lesson I have learned is to let people know in your “out of office” message that you return to the office on X day but let them know it may take X+2 days to reply to their email. Chances are you will get back to them the day you return or even the next day, but underpromising and overdelivering, even on emails, is a great business practise.
Speaking of emails…I’ve “shrunk” my inbox from 351 e-mails to 121! Most of them were Google Alerts, newsletters, marketing emails, or “out of office” responses to my “out of office” response! 
:D Now that all the bulky emails have been moved out of my inbox and out of the way, it’s time to reply to all the emails that require my full attention.
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July 7th, 2008
I bet you have had to send a long website address to someone via email. Perhaps the link was too long and by the time the receipient tried to click on it, the link had broken (split over 2 or more lines). So what can you do?
Take that link and shorten it.
- Go to www.snipurl.com
- Copy the long url into the “long url” field
- On the right you’ll see “nickname”. Here you can specify what you want the link’s nickname to be such as http://www.snipurl.com/coach, where “coach” is the nickname. This makes it easier for you to remember the link if you ever had to reuse it.
- Click snip it.
- On the next page your new snipurl will be created, copy it and use it.
Happy sniping!
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June 27th, 2008
Here’s a great resource for creating your business plan on the web. It’s an interactive business planner, which means you create your business plan by simply answering a number of questions.
Here’s what they promise.
With the IBP, you will:
* be guided through each section of your business plan using a question and answer format;
* learn definitions and tips, and view sample business plans to help you to write your own plan;
* have financial projections prepared for you, based upon the information you provide; and
* use the power of the Internet to assist you in researching your business plan.
Create your business plan at http://www.canadabusiness.ca/ibp/en/
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June 27th, 2008
Do you write a newsletter, a blog or other articles? Do you just post them in one place? Why? Make the most of your content by reusing and recycling your content. What does this mean? Take your newsletter article and put it on your blog. Take your blog post and put it on your newsletter. Take your articles and post them on your newsletter and blog. Take all 3 and post them on article banks. Article banks are online sources where you can deposit your articles for others to use on their blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers etc. They must keep your author bio on your article so you still get the credit for it. Sometimes they are used to find experts for interviews or teleclasses.
There are many Article Banks out there and you can spend hours posting your articles on each one of them, or you can post your article once and have a service post them on 100’s of other sites for you. This service is www.SubmitYourArticle.com and it will save you time and generate tons of traffic to your site. Make this part of your marketing homework for the day!
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June 20th, 2008
I never like hearing the “battery low” beep when I’m on my cell phone. It always seems to happen when I’m on an important or juicy call! :) You can fix this by purchasing a second battery for your mobile phones (which can be super expensive) or you can attach a AA battery to your phone to give it some umf for 2 more hours of talk time. How do you do that? Well you purchase this little gadget from http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/9b80/
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June 19th, 2008
So you’ve returned from a networking meeting or a conference with a bag full of business cards. Where do you put them?
They can easily be stored in your fat wallet or in a pile on your desk. Perhaps you would rather a mini business card file cabinet? Well they make them and you can order it on thinkgeek.com. Here’s the linkhttp://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/9d84/
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June 17th, 2008
Do you need to meet with your mastermind group but the phone is just not enough?
Do you want to meet with a client or groups of clients in an exciting way?
Do you want to share documents, view webpages or brainstorm on a virutal whiteboard?
Do you want a VOIP (voice over ip - talking over the internet) as well as a bridge line options?
Would you like to add video to your meetings so that you can see eachother or show off your latest products?
Well you can with this free web casting service from Adobe. You can check it out at http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow
The only draw back to this free service is that you can only conduct a meeting with 3 other people. But for some this is more than enough.
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June 17th, 2008
Thanks to the value of the Canadian Dollar PayPal has lowered the Canadian dollar transaction fees and foreign exchange rates for U.S. dollar withdrawals to Canadian bank accounts.
For instance transaction fees have decreased from $.55 per transaction to $.30! Check out all the details at : http://www.thepaypalblog.com/weblog/2008/06/lowered-fees-fo.html
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June 16th, 2008
What if you created a video that promotes your product? Would you post the video on your website and YouTube? What if you could take your infomercial and post it on a site that would promote it to the world? Where others could view, share your video and buy your product? Well here’s a site that is the online version of the shopping channel. It’s www.talkmarket.com.
What do you have to do to promote your own product? Simply create an account with www.talkmarket.com, upload your video and input your price, shipping costs etc. I would then let others know about your video on www.talkmarket.com by mentioning it on your blog, newsletter and your email signature just to get you going.
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June 11th, 2008
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