Have you been trying to find a business partner without success to grow your business? Have you considered searching for a partner via social media? In today’s time as a business owner, you may have to look at connecting with a business partner to grow you business. Image: SXC.hu If you choose to use social media to search for a business partner, then let me share a few things that could help you in your search. Create a list of skills or traits that you want your business partner to have. Then you can use different social media networks to assess those you are considering such as LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter. Don’t be afraid to use search engines to research your potential business partners. Ask for recommendations that you can... [Read more]

Using social media to connect with others is important especially if you are using it to grow your business. However, have you noticed that you efforts have stalled or that you are not connecting as much via social media? Image: SXC.hu If you are experiencing a hindrance in your social media efforts, maybe you need to make some changes. Below are a few things that can help you identify if your social media efforts are stalled: Have you found that you are losing Twitter followers as quickly as you add them? Are people not attending your teleseminars even though you heavily advertise them? Have your mailing subscriber slowed down? Have people on your mailing list stopped purchasing suggested products? If you could answer “yes” to... [Read more]

Do you have clients who have been difficult to deal with? Or maybe a project doesn’t feel like a good fit. If there comes a time when you need to end a project or client relationship, there is a tactful way to do it. Image: SXC.hu As a business owner, one of the things that you may face is the end of a connection to a client or vendor or a project. To help you tactfully deal with it, I have created a list below of a few things that you should keep in mind: Don’t be mean. Even if the other person is mean to you. Keep your cool and not get out of control with your emotions. Make sure that all financial matter are finalized. Ensure that you and the other party agree about the amounts and that they are processed. If you have an agreement... [Read more]

Are you a business owner who decided to partner up with another business owner to create a business? Did you keep your original business or merge it into the new business? It’s interesting to hear the answers to these two questions because I have found that some business owners don’t keep a separate identity from the combined business. Image: SXC.hu What I mean by this is that when you develop a partnership by merging with another business owner that you should try to work into the agreement that you will keep some type of autonomy for your original business. You can view this as a safeguard in case your partnership ends. Your new partnership can have its own brand message while at the same time you can keep the brand message going... [Read more]

In the second part of my article about Schedulicity, I wanted to share about my personal experience. I decided to try their software to schedule a message appointment. To schedule, I used their mobile scheduling capability by using my cell phone. The scheduling process flowed smoothly while I used my cell phone. Image: Flickr and ♥ China ♥ guccio I was then able to check the status of my appointment as week as find out more details about the company I chose to use. The company was Balanced Body Massage which is owned and operated by Deborah Hays Arellano. My finding is that Schedulicity would be a good benefit to any business that uses scheduling to manage client appointsments. Below is the second part of the interview. Who else is in this... [Read more]