Networking for Women
I’ve just spent 2 days at the Melbourne event of “Essentially for Women” and discovered I’m actually 20 years younger! How? One of the women, presenting showed statistics that in this day and age that 50 has now become the new 30. It’s like the fashion spiel when ‘purple’ became the new ‘black’. (The women reading this will know what I mean.) 
So if anyone asks my age, instead of telling them I’m 51 (and proud of it), according to statistics I am officially 31 ! I like that.
Anyhow here’s me with Lyndsey Baigent, the Founder of Essentially for Women. She was very inspiring and boy what a story she had to tell.
Regards
Lorraine
How to Outsource to Free Up Your Time and Increase Your Income
How many tasks do you take on in your business? Do you pride yourself on doing the bookkeeping, reacting to email, preparing your own proposals and presentations, attending networking events, making appointments, keeping on top of the paperwork, providing your service, packaging and delivering your products, running around doing all your errands, looking after children, taking the dog for a walk…and then fitting in time to take care of yourself? How about marketing and developing your business? Where does that fit in? If you’re doing everything yourself, you’ll never have the time or make the money you want while you take control of it all. You may think you can do it better, faster and more effectively than anyone else, however you’ll eventually drive yourself into the ground.It’s very sad to see many entrepreneurs and small business owners run themselves ragged and constantly struggle trying to make their business a success. And yet, one of the easiest ways for them to remove the pressures is by outsourcing.
Before coming to me for coaching, a client of mine was so sick and tired of the long hours she had been working she just wanted to give up. Sarah was a one-woman business. She’d struggled needlessly because she could not see how she could change her situation without hiring an employee, which she was loathe to do (and said she couldn’t afford to). We found she was spending 20 hours a week on general paperwork that could easily be done by an administrative assistant in a quarter of the time. Sarah was snowed under in administrative tasks. Instead of doing what she enjoyed which was designing clothes, she had become an office worker. Not only that she went into business so she could have time with her children yet because of the pressures of doing everything herself, every spare minute was spent in the business. Even when Sarah was ‘with’ her children, she wasn’t ‘present’. Sarah was trying to ‘have it all’ but in actual fact she was getting more miserable by the day. That all changed when she asked for help. In Sarah’s case that help came in the form of a virtual assistant who handled the majority of the paperwork for a few hours a week, a bookkeeper who came in once a fortnight for the afternoon, a friend who minded her children 2 mornings a week. She also had some additional childcare from her family so she could spend time looking after herself. A cleaner and gardener were hired to come in and help as well. Sure it cost Sarah money, but because of the time she freed up she was able to use her talents and triple her profits while working a whole lot less. Plus she had a much happier home life. The Final Word
So what can you do to change your situation? The new year is fast approaching and if you want to achieve different results in your business, you need to do something else.
Need some resources on how to increase your productivity and profits by outsourcing effectively? Then get a copy of The Productivity and Profit Home Study SystemTM . It includes everything you need to know to free up your time, master your marketing so you make much more money and get a life!
It’s laid out in a very simple way: do step one of the system, and when you’re done with that, move on to step two etc. It’s so simple and yet so powerful, it’s changed the lives of many solopreneurs and small business owners.
You can read the success stories and get your own copy at www.productivityqueen.com/profit.html (why be time poor and struggle in your business, when you can easily get much more done, make more money and have time off?
Lorraine Pirihi, The Productivity Queen, is founder of http://www.productivityqueen.com/, and creator of The Productivity and Profit SystemTM … the proven step-by-step program guaranteed to free up your time, organise your systems, master your marketing so you make much more money and have a life! To receive your F.R.E.E. Audio CD by mail and weekly how-to articles to increase your productivity and your profits, visit http://www.productivityqueen.com/
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Stop Procrastinating and Get Moving
How are you progressing with the goals you set yourself this year? Have you made a start? Or are you still procrastinating or caught the very popular “I’m too busy” epidemic?
Let me tell you about Mary…
Mary runs her own publishing company employing 5 people.
She is married with two teenagers. When I first met Mary she told me how stressed out she was trying to juggle work and home effectively. Her business although surviving (just) could have achieved major growth except for one major factor… Mary. She was very disorganised and ran her business that way.
How to Get Organised for Christmas
With the Melbourne Cup just a few days away, guess what? It’s already time to think about Christmas and plan for what can be a very hectic time of year. Instead of being enjoyable and profitable, if you’re not organised the ’silly season’ can be a nightmare for you.
Getting your act together now
will ensure you maximise your opportunities and feel relieved that you are ahead of the game.
Already I’m in planning phase for next year, as well as keeping an eye on current activities.
