I’m always on the hunt for a new time management magic bullet. I’m looking for that elusive trick that’s going to add hours back into my day, and make my life better.
Well, I believe I found it! It is a combination of several techniques that take me back to my project planner days; so, I’ve [...]
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Types of nonprofit organizations (Repost)
I’m reposting this entry from January 2008, because this question has come up several times this week.
Too often I hear people referring to ALL nonprofit organizations as a 501(c)3 and they are not. So, I thought it would be beneficial to list the various types of nonprofits.
Here is a list from Internal Revenue [...]
Keep them coming back
We have lost a little of the fun in business these days. Too many of us are trying so hard to make a dollar in this failing economy that we are forgetting it is about the customers.
Well, Nestle Chocolates’ has made a customer out of me. A friend on FaceBook said call their hotline [...]
Wednesday Tip: Locate celebrities to support your nonprofit
The Celebrity Foundation Directory! Through their private foundations, many notable individuals have made significant contributions to help underserved populations and provide support for medical research, green technology, and countless other causes they care about. This new directory, in downloadable PDF format, includes detailed descriptions of more than 1,600 foundations started by VIPs in the fields [...]
Could you use free advice?
I think when we hear free coming from a business we think there is a catch to it, and while there can be, it isn’t always the case.
On Wednesdays from 10:30am to 11:30am, I have blocks of 15-minute time slots set aside for people to use to ask questions about the start-up process for [...]
The office is closed
Do you shut down at all for the holiday season? Do you
take any time toward the beginning of the year to regroup?
Some of you may be thinking, “How foolish to have your
office closed to “regroup.” Yet, you should! Every organization should take
some time to retreat, re-evaluation, and rejuvenate for the upcoming year.
Perhaps your year [...]
Uh-oh!
Just a few weeks ago, my laptop just stopped processing.
I tried everything, even tried to restore it to manufactures specifications.
Then realized it was going to require me to wipe the hard drive clean, and then
restore. I didn’t feel qualified to do that, so I took it to Best Buy’s Geek
Squad. I had no choice [...]
I’ll start Monday
This is a familiar sentiment of mine. I find it myself
saying it when I want to start something new that feels way big, you know like a
new exercise routine, diet, project, or something just way outside of my
comfort zone. My latest incantation of this fateful sentiment was just this
weekend. I had made the decision [...]
Business check-up
A wise friend posted this weekend, in Twitter, “Treat
your business as your #1 customer.” Now, I’m not sure if that is Mia’s original
thought, but it was quite timely for me.
Once a quarter, Esther Fleming and I set aside a weekend
to work on our businesses. We call them,
If I Only Had A Weekend (IIOHAW). Our [...]
Client Observed
I
enjoy face to face events with my clients. You know, meetings, conferences,
etc. However, this past weekend I was in Miami for a client's board meeting and
learned the most astonishing thing about myself. I'm terribly shy. Who would
have thought? To know me is to think
differently. Yet, at the board meeting, we took a break for [...]
