Monday Shopping Cart Tip
Automation is a wonderful thing and a shopping cart is an incredible tool that will allow you to automate steps that can be a huge pain to manage yourself… let alone the hours it can take up in your day.
My training and certification is through Practice Pay Solutions, a private label name of 1ShoppingCart.com. Through my classes and daily experience, some of the most basic tools are the tools one mus absolutely take advantage of.
List Building Tools:
- Double Optin Confirmation – protect yourself and comply with the Can Spam Act.
- List Management – manage the names and email addresses of all who sign up for your newsletter, teleclass etc.
- Send newsletters or broadcast emails – Quickly and easily send out your newsletter or special announcement to a select group of people or to everyone, you choice.
A shopping cart is a tool that can help you reclaim your time and simplify your day. If you would like help setting up or maintaining your cart, just let me know.
Thursday – eBook Review
In keeping with the theme of simplicity and streamlining productivity I thought I would pass along the lead for the eBook Zen Habits – Handbook for Life. Zen Habits is a blog that I have recently started to follow and enjoy. Leo Babauta is a father of six, is working his way out of debt, holds down a job, freelances on the side as well as run a very successful blog.
Anyone who can do all of that, keep their sanity and still find time to enjoy life is someone who has some tips that could be useful and real to say.
This eBook has a nice layout, is easy to read and I found it too be very thought provoking, here is peek at what he covers in this eBook:
Section 1: Simplicity Read more
Simplifying Tip – Outsourcing
Outsourcing is of course a topic near and dear to my heart. As a Virtual Assistant, I am an “outsourcee”! My job is to help you get rid of tasks that will free up time and get you back to focusing on the big picture, your business and where it is heading.
Here are some simple, quick and easy tasks and jobs you could outsource and potentially free up hours in your day:
- Check email
- Research competitors, product ideas
- Answer customer service email
- Setting up and/or updating a shopping cart (also an automation tool that we will talk more about later)
- Update your schedule on an online calendar
- Uploading and styling blog posts
- Accounting
- Setting up your next webcast Read more
Moving past 2008 and moving into 2009
This is probably going to sound like a New Years Resolution post and it certainly could be but it has taken time to get past the busyness of the Holidays and write down thoughts of what happened in 2008 and plan for 2009.
Once I spent time on this idea I kept asking,
“Where did 2008 go?”
2008 is a year that will go down in the history books, here in the the United States we elected our first African American President, the economy plunged and just the everyday tasks were at times overwhelming. As usual the workaholic in me plowed my way through it all. Read more
