The auto reply vacation message is a great thing. It can alleviate the wonder of knowing whether you are out of town or just ignoring your clients when you don’t answer their message. It is also probably the last thing you think about upon your return from Tahiti. When you turn it on as you are boarding the plane, put a reminder into your calendar to remind yourself to turn it off.
The same rule applies to the voice mail message announcing your vacation plans. Change it when you get back!
BizEtiquette #3: Vacation Message
But is she making any money?
I have a couple people that I follow on Twitter and Facebook who have a ton of “friends”. They are on there Twittering away all day. She is “going to this thing, going to that thang, offering this for free, givin’ away that for free”. And, I think, “ya, but is she making any money?” …
Mo-mo-mo-mentum
This is an important thing to think about. As the year comes to an end, it isn’t time to stop moving. Now is the time to charge ahead, stay on track and get a game plan together for 2012. Yeah, if you don’t do it now, you’ll spend the first few weeks of January figuring…
November Reflection
Last week was our last SMARTY event for 2011, I have just inserted 2011 into my agenda and I’m planning year-end bonuses for my staff. For me, these are all signs that the end of the year is upon us. I took some time to reflect over all that I have accomplished in the last…
Thanks For Reminding Me How Much That Hurt!
I was going through some reports this week and stumbled upon paper work from a mess we had last year in our medical practice. Just seeing these papers stung like pouring alcohol on a just popped blister. A company that I hired made a HUGE error in the service they were providing for me. …
Once upon a time, I stood outside of an event and cried.
Jane Wurwand, co-founder of Dermalogica It was six years ago and I had just opened The Nail Lounge. I was a few months into it and I was like a duck. All serene on the top of the water but under water my feet were going a million miles an hour. I was still learning…
If I had access to all of this back then….
I opened my very first business when I was 18. It was a clothing store in “The Valley” (insert Valley Girl joke, like, here). I was thinking about how I connected with my customers. I advertised in the local paper and I sent out “Happy Birthday” postcards. That was about it. Not because that was…
