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Kelly Sims's Articles in General Business

  • Finding A Heathy Balance Between Your Business and Your Family Life
    This articles helps entrepreneurs in finding ways to balance their business and their family life. By creating and maintaining a schedule, making to-do lists, prioritizing and delegating tasks even the busiest of entrepreneurs can achieve a healthy balance.
  • Help! I’m Overwhelmed with Paperwork: Options That Can Get You Back to the Business of Your Business
    The majority of small business owners simply spend too much valuable time on administrative tasks. This article serves to help entrepreneurs make an informed decision about whether or not it’s time to get help, and if so, what kind of help.
  • Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents, Oh My! Understanding Intellectual Property
    Intellectual property is a topic that should be familiar to all business owners, but unfortunately, many simply don’t know much about it. This article serves to inform entrepreneurs about trademark, patent, and copyright law in order to ensure that they can properly protect themselves against illegal reproduction of their work.
  • Simplify Your Life: Hire a Virtual Assistant
    Many entrepreneurs struggle with time management when it is not necessary. New technologies and the growth of the internet have made it possible for just about anyone to get the help they need, without the space considerations or expense involved with hiring an employee. Simplifying the lives of business owners can be as effortless as sending an email.
  • 5 Steps to Find the Perfect Virtual Assistant for Your Business
    If you have decided to join the ranks of those entrepreneurs that are using the services of a Virtual Assistant, you may be asking yourself how to find the appropriate one. Hiring randomly is usually not the best strategy. Taking the proper steps to chose a suitable VA will undoubtedly pay dividends.
  • Manage Your Email Before It Manages You
    Email is a communication tool that was designed to help save time. Unfortunately for some, it has the opposite effect. Many find themselves stuck in front of their computers responding to scores of emails throughout their busy workday, thus reducing their efficiency. Setting up a simple system to respond and organize emails could help to gain back the time that was intended to be saved by email.
  • Common Challenges of Home-Based Business Owners and Their Solutions
    Operating a home-based business is a fantasy for many aspiring entrepreneurs. Although working from home has some incredible benefits, it is not as trouble-free as one would think. Having a plan in place for dealing with the difficulties facing your home-based business will help you to maintain its continued growth.
  • Getting Things Done: How to Conquer Procrastination
    Procrastination leads to stress and anxiety, but these can be easily avoided. Don’t allow the urge to procrastinate to overcome your desire to run your business efficiently. Following some, or all of these simple steps may help you to conquer your inclination to delay performing dreaded duties, allow you to more thoroughly enjoy your work day and let you to run your business more effectively.
  • Mom Entrepreneurs: 7 Ways to Find More Time
    As a mom and an entrepreneur you know the value of time because you simply have too little of it. Learning some simple strategies that can add minutes and maybe even hours to your day could be the means to attain that perfect balance that all moms strive to achieve.
  • Virtual Outsourcing Can Make Your Business More Profitable
    If you are a small business owner, you should know how valuable your time is, for, as they say, time is money. But, if you are like most small business owners, a great deal of your time is likely spent on paperwork and other functions that take time away from activities that are more profit inducing. Imagine how much more profitable you could be, if you could virtually erase such tasks.
  • Write Articles That Get Noticed
    Creating articles is easy; just about anyone can do it. The hard part is creating quality articles that convert readers into customers and that will be picked up for use in newsletters, ezines and blogs. Following some of these simple steps may help you stop simply writing articles, and start writing articles that get noticed.
  • Is Your Business Ready for the Holidays? 6 Ways a Virtual Assistant Can Help
    The holiday season can be an extremely stressful time for small business owners. Between holiday arrangements for work and for home, who has the time to actually enjoy themselves? The holidays don't have to be the hectic time that many entrepreneurs have come to expect. By seeking the help of a qualified Virtual Assistant, you can gain the time you need to put some joy back into your holidays this season.
  • What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Comparative Advantage
    As a small business owner, you have many responsibilities. What if letting go of some of those responsibilities could actually make you more money? By learning the meaning of comparative advantage, business owners stand to increase their profitability and perhaps even take their business' to the next level.