Category: favorite business tools

  • What I’m Reading, Listening to and Watching to Keep on My Business Toes [Part 2]

    What I’m Reading, Listening to and Watching to Keep on My Business Toes [Part 2]

    I’m a mission to share everything I know about business and finding the ease in running a successful company with everyone I know. I read, listen and watch much of it, so that you don’t have to. Here’s the shortlist of ideas, tips and tactics that have caught my eye and enhanced my business world:…

  • Business Tools I Love: Slack

    Business Tools I Love: Slack

    How’s it going with running your virtual team? Totally rocking it out, with each team member finding your groove. Or is it a bit of a chaotic mess, with missed deadlines and miscommunications at times. You’re not alone. Running a virtual team has its own challenges, ones that don’t even occur in an office setting.…

  • What I’m Reading, Listening to and Watching to Keep on My Business Toes

    What I’m Reading, Listening to and Watching to Keep on My Business Toes

    Late last year, I took a 6-week break in my business. I was heading towards burnout and needed to put the brakes on so much in order to regain my balance. One of those items on pause wound up being content consumption. I didn’t allow myself to read other blog posts, listen to podcasts, watch…

  • Please, Please, Please Don’t Be Like This (a lesson in what not to do with your email list)

    Please, Please, Please Don’t Be Like This (a lesson in what not to do with your email list)

    Earlier this year, I was planning an event for one of my clients. It was going to be her first in-person event in over 1 1/2 years. We were going to go big with signage and attendee swag and photos and videos and lavish catering – the works! But, I don’t live in the same…

  • 3 New Time-Saving Tips Just for YOU

    3 New Time-Saving Tips Just for YOU

    I love learning. I love to discover new ways to do that same thing. Or learn a completely new concept. I love to get better so that I can support my clients in completely new ways. It probably comes as no surprise that I’m on a number of email lists. And each day, content (both…

  • Business Tools I Love: Loom

    Business Tools I Love: Loom

    You guys, I recently started using this awesome on-the-fly video tool and I just had to share it with you. It’s called Loom (but also goes by the moniker UseLoom). There are so many video recording apps and programs out there, why does this piece of tech standout to me? My top 5 reasons why:…

  • Business Tools I Love: LastPass

    Business Tools I Love: LastPass

    When you manage a business, there’s so much data involved. Passwords – you bet! Credit card numbers – of course! On the teams I manage, there’s always one person working in one area of a business while another is working on an equally-important, but totally-different area. For example, it’s pretty much the norm that we’ll…

  • The One Where I Share My Hack for Finding Focus

    The One Where I Share My Hack for Finding Focus

    As a business owner, finding the opportunity to fully give yourself over to a task feels like a rarity. About as frequent as the unicorn passing under a rainbow on its way to meet the leprechaun and share the pot of gold. There’s always something to do and lots of balls up in the air…