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KPI’s The Key to Business Success

So we start with what are KPI’s?  KPI’s are Key Performance Indicators.  The numbers do not lie.  It is important to determine what activities you need to do to produce the results you want for yourself and your business.   Goals-you need to establish what your revenue or business goals look like.  Some people have daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or …

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WOW Social Media Marketing that You Can Do!

WOW social media marketing strategies that you can do from Raleigh small business owner, Jill Markijohn. To learn something new, you need to ask questions and be unafraid of making mistakes. When I was a teacher, this is what I hoped to instill in my students so they could learn – and love to learn. This is what I did …

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No Way, No How, Uh-uh, Not Gonna Happen

Hey, SuperMoms! How did you do with last month’s Priority List exercise? Any revelations? I hope you’re finding these tools to be useful in finding some balance between family and work responsibilities. As you continue to raise your standards of what fits into your busy life, you might find that you automatically say “no” to some things. Maybe you’ve decided …

Working from home is easy! Right?

We can just sit down and get to work…  Ha! Recently, I made the huge transition from working full-time as a teacher to working my Thirty-one business “full-time.”  After many late nights and odd hours of squeezing life and my direct sales business around teaching, I decided to step back and focus solely on my family and business.  Best. Decision. …

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4 Steps to Loving You

As Moms and Mompreneurs, let’s face it,  it is hard to do it all and be it all.  I work with so many Moms that struggle with being truly happy with who they are and where they are in life right now.  For my February topics for my weekly ezine, the topics were centered around LOVE- loving you more than …

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Behind the Scenes, Birdie B’s Etsy Shop

Hi I’m Tania, owner of birdie b’s children’s clothing.  I started birdie b’s in 2011 after much cajoling from friends and family. They insisted that I needed to offer my creations for people to buy instead of just admire. This was a huge undertaking for me since I had four children, the youngest being only 2 years old and still …

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7 Day (Photo) Challenge

I struggle with being present with my family. My attention can be focused too heavily on my photography business that I miss great moments with both my husband and my son. My fear is that my son will grow up watching me with a phone in my hand and my eyes glued to a computer screen. This past holiday season …

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Twitter For Raleigh Small Business- How To Get Started!

Twitter for Raleigh Small Business- How to get started! Are you tweeting? Set aside the fear of the unknown and the overwhelming thoughts of “not one more task” to consider Twitter as a valuable and far reaching social network for growing your business. Dream that entrepreneurial dream for just a moment as I tell you that Dell reported that it …

Karen’s Top 5 Tips For A Balanced Life

As women, we are so many things to so many people.  Finding a balance between all that demands our attention can sometimes be challenging.  We can feel like bankers of our time and energy, pulling from one account to invest in another, always leaving one overdrawn.   I was recently feeling this imbalance in my own life.  I was working …

SuperMoms Anonymous

Hi again, SuperMoms! I hope last month’s post got you thinking about ways to wrench control of your life from the jaws of the all-mighty to-do list. I loved reading all of your comments, so thank you for sharing your experiences! As I mentioned last month, everyone’s idea of balance is going to look a little different due to varied …