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Returning from Vacation Does Not Need to be Stressful

Friday, December 9th, 2011

When you are counting down the hours until you leave for vacation, it is easy to become more focused on enjoying the sand between our toes than the mounds of work that will pile up while you are gone. Once you return home, the shock of the amount of work that needs to be completed can cause a feeling of anxiety and leave you thinking that the vacation was not worth it.

There are things that you can do that will make your return to work a smoother transition. The next time that you are going on vacation, try using the systems below to prepare for your absence and create a stress free return.

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Online Business Reviews

Friday, October 14th, 2011

Online reviews and public customer feedback are a very real part of almost every business. Today’s consumers often read online reviews prior to contacting a business or purchasing a product. If the comments that are posted about a company are negative, the consumer may purchase a different product. To ensure that your company’s online comments and reviews are accurate and positive, we have outlined a simple system that will walk you through the process of monitoring, responding, and benefiting from your online reviews.

Expand your Online Presence

There are a number of popular websites that allow customers to post feedback about their experience. Listing your business on these sites creates an easy way for your customers to post reviews about your business. It also allows potential clients to quickly find and read reviews about your business. A few of the sites that we recommend using are Google Places, Yahoo Local, Yelp, and Angie’s List.

Monitor

It is important to read the comments and reviews that are being posted about your company on the web. By reviewing this information, you can identify problems with your service or product and when necessary, respond to the feedback.

A quick and easy way to track the comments and reviews that are being posted about your company is to use Google Alerts. This free tracking system can be set to notify you when certain words are posted online about your company. Google Alerts

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Group Task List

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

A meeting agenda outlines the structure of a meeting. Meeting minutes document what was discussed and decided at the meeting. Unfortunately, if the purpose of your meeting is to plan a large project, these documents are less than effective at ensuring that all of the project members stay on track and organized.

To overcome this problem, we suggest that you create a third document, a Group Task List. Creating this document for your team will help guide everyone working on your project in a focused direction. It also enables you to efficiently use your scheduled meeting time to discuss the matters that need to be addressed, then separate and have a clear understanding of what each individual in the group is going to accomplish.

To help you increase your project efficiency, CEO Systems has outlined the simple system that we use to create a meeting task list.

1) Create a Meeting Agenda

Decide the order of the discussion topics. Create a timeline that indicates approximately how long each topic will be discussed. You may also want to schedule a few minutes for each attendee to speak about any concerns or updates.

2) Utilize your Agenda

Have a copy of the meeting agenda available for every attendee when they arrive. After you start the meeting, ask if anyone would like to add to or change the agenda. During your meeting, use the agenda to guide your discussion through the different topics.

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Five Time Saving Social Marketing Tips

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Online social marketing is a free and effective tool to help you quickly and efficiently market your company.  Most sites allow you to post articles, publicize events, upload photos, and connect with people from around the world. The most popular social networking websites for businesses are Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  Each of these websites offers unique marketing opportunities with different communities of business connections. To help you efficiently and productively meet your online social networking goals, CEO Systems has developed five social marketing tips that every business owner should know.

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Effective and Efficient Meetings

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

The business world is full of meetings. Many of these meetings are not only a waste of time, but money as well. If you are paying employees to sit in meetings, you know that it is important that those meetings make a positive impact in your company. Most meetings fall into one of four categories, daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly.  Each of these types of meetings serves a different purpose. When used correctly, a combination of these meetings can increase your team communication and project efficiency.

We at CEO Systems have developed the following system to assist you in creating a more effective meeting strategy.

Daily Check In

Daily check in meetings should be quick.  These meetings should be used to share the top priorities of the day and re-delegate any tasks that have not been completed.  It is important to keep daily meetings on track. Any topics that create discussions that last over five minutes should be set aside to be handled in a one-on-one meeting or scheduled into the weekly meeting.

These check in meetings are most effective when they are held at the same time and location every day.

Weekly Focus Meeting

The weekly focus meeting is an opportunity to hold topic discussions, review statistics for the company, and resolve issues. These meetings are the most effective when they last between 60-90 minutes. People are busy and if the weekly focus meeting regularly drags out for 3 hours, people will find reasons to miss them.

It is important to not over-pack the agenda of a weekly focus meeting. Create a simple agenda that allows time to touch on each important topic. If there are large events or projects coming up that need further discussion, a committee should be formed to work the details out. A committee representative can then summarize that discussion at a future weekly focus meeting.

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Spring Cleaning for Your Email Inbox

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

With hundreds of emails flooding into your email inbox every month, it is easy to see how things can quickly become unmanageable. If this is the situation that you are currently in, you know that allowing your email inbox to pile up can be a dangerous and costly habit to have. When you don’t respond to your emails within a timely manner, business opportunities can be missed and relationships can be strained.

When our clients find themselves in this situation, we recommend that they fix it by scheduling time that they can dedicate to sorting and responding to their emails. In most cases it is necessary to schedule several blocks of time over a few days to work through all of the emails. We have found that scheduling 30 minute purging sessions usually works the best. Determine the time frame that fits in your schedule and use the system below to efficiently purge through your email inbox.

The CEO System:

1. Block out small chunks of time in your schedule that can be used to purge through your email Inbox

2. Begin the email purging process by sorting your emails by sender. To learn more about this efficient sorting method, click here

3. Scan each email and do one of the following:

  • If the email can be dealt with in less than one minute, send a response immediately. If you encounter any delays such as a slow opening link, go to the next email. When the window is finished processing, go back to the original email and continue your work.
  • If the email represents a project or task that needs to be completed, transfer the action to your task list. Doing this will help you to remember to complete the task and allow you to delete the email. See tips for task management in our article “Using an Electronic ‘To Do’ List.”
  • If the email requires no action, but needs be retained for your records, it should be moved to the proper subfolder
  • Delete the email if no further action is needed and the information does not need to be retained for your records.

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Spring Cleaning Comes To Your Office

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Spring always seems to bring with it the first signs of sunshine and a renewed sense of optimism for the future. For most of our clients, spring also brings a new motivation to clean out their office and purge through all of the documents that have been cluttering up their desk. To help, we have created a fun spring cleaning system that outlines some of our best office organizing techniques. This system will help you spring into action and create the organized office that you have always imagined.

SPRING

S –Schedule

P – Purge

R – Retention

I   - Integrate

N – Nightly Tasks

G – Goals

Schedule

It can be extremely difficult to organize your office during the work day. Inevitably an interruption will occur and any scheduled office organization time will get put off for another day. For the best results, we recommended scheduling your office purging session on a non-work day. Stick to your plan and don’t let any excuse, sports game, or any other fun offer let you miss this appointment.

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Delivering a Successful Email Newsletter

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Providing quality content to your subscribers is the key to the success of your email marketing campaign. Your content should clearly deliver your message, confirm the credibility of your company, create an emotional connection and motivate your buyers. The content that you deliver portrays a promise of the experience and value that your customers will receive.

When you are developing your content, it is important to provide your subscribers with information that they will find valuable and/or coupons or discounts that they would be interested in hearing about. Below we have listed five tips that we share with our clients to help them efficiently develop a successful internet marketing campaign that creates immediate results.

Tip 1:  Target Demographic

A valuable time saver that will increase the effectiveness of your campaign is to research what your target demographic is interested in hearing about. The simplest way to gather this information is through an informal survey or by asking your current customers what they would be interested in hearing about.

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Building an Email Marketing List

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

One of the most beneficial ways that you can invest in your business is to take the time to build a list of email addresses that can be used for marketing purposes. Having this list will allow you to take the next step towards staying in constant communication with your past, current, and future clients through an email marketing campaign.

Over the last few years we have found that many of our clients struggle with implementing a plan to build their email marketing list. It has become such a popular problem that we decided it would be beneficial to outline the different list building sources that we most often recommend. Keep in mind that the best approach is to build your list by gathering contact information from many different sources. Do not be afraid to use trial and error until you figure out what combination works the best for your business.

The CEO System for List Building Success

Website
To successfully market to your online visitors it is important that your website features an opt-in or “subscribe”box that allows visitors to join your email marketing list.

To get visitors to become subscribers:

  • Offer a solution to their problem
  • Have a privacy statement so they understand you will not share their information with others
  • List special discounts or offers that are available only to subscribers
  • Give something away. Create an offer that you will give away when they join your list. This may be a report, e-book, or product on a solution that your company offers.

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Establishing an Email Marketing Campaign

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

An email marketing campaign allows you to promote your products or services by sending newsletters via email with updates and coupons to your current, past and potential clients. With an email marketing campaign in place, you can dramatically increase sales by keeping in contact with the people that are most interested in hearing about your business… your subscribers. To help you create your own email marketing campaign for your company, we have outlined the steps that should be taken in this process.

How to create an Email Marketing Campaign

Step One: Create the List

There are many ways that you can build your email marketing list. We suggest putting a few of the tools listed below in place. With the right combination, your list will continue to grow with little effort.

• Place an opt-in box or “capture form” on your website that will allow visitors to sign up to receive your emails
• Offer an incentive on your website for visitors to subscribe, such as receiving a free product or report
• Gather the contact information of the people that you meet networking and send them an invite to join your list
• Gain subscribers by providing an opt in box or promoting your newsletter on social marketing websites
• Create a plan to collect the email addresses of your current and new clients

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