How To Plan, Prepare, and Position Your Business For Success In 2013

Actionplanr Goal Popup for Fundraiser

There is no better time than NOW to go inward, pause, take a deep breath, exhale and think about the outcome and results you want in 2013 for yourself, your business, your family, or your community. If you want to achieve your 2013 goals, now is the time to start planning, preparing, and positioning.  In this blog post I am going to show you how to do that using our simple software system called Actionplanr. But first, I want to share a personal short story about the power of setting goals. About ten years ago, I had this idea to organize a fundraiser for kids who were living in foster « Continue »

Why Your Business Should Be On Pinterest

Pinterest

  Did you know... • Pinterest users spend more money, more often and on more items than any of the top 5 social networking sites? • Pinterest's U.S. audience is interested in crafts, recipes, fashion, home decor, travel? • Pinterest's U.K. audience (male dominated) is interested in venture capital, SEO, and blogging resources? • Pinterest has 15 million users? • Of people with Pinterest accounts, 21% have purchased an item after seeing it on Pinterest? • Pinterest U.S. users are 70% women 30% men? • Pinterest has outstripped the traffic of Google+, LinkedIn, and « Continue »

3 Simple Steps To Achieving Your Goals

Workshop Leaders From Passion Into Action Conference. That's me on the far right.

Recently, I had the privilege of conducting a workshop on how to set goals at the Passion Into Action women's conference  organized by See Jane Do.  It was a powerful conference filled with intelligent and motivated attendees, inspiring speakers, and dynamic workshop leaders. Photo by Kail James You can access the entire PDF presentation called, "Turn My Passion Into A Real Business" right here inside Actionplanr's (currently in beta) business templates.  Be sure to click on the NOTES section to download the PDF. The conference was designed to motivate women into action « Continue »

Actionplanr Launch

SelectView Example 5-Goals

A few years ago we had a vision to empower entrepreneurs with simple software productivity tools. Our vision was bold, yet simple --- Impact the lives and businesses of individuals who wanted to get more done and make things happen by achieving their goals, accomplishing their projects, and pursing their ideas and plans. Most importantly, the software had to be very easy to use. After many years of consulting and helping entrepreneurs and small businesses, we knew exactly where the pain points were in why people don't reach their goals. We knew all the reasons why an idea never sees « Continue »

10 Powerful Networking Tips For Conference Goers

Panel at SxSWi - Becoming CEO: Lessons From Four Techette Leaders

I just returned from SxSWi, a live conference on interactive media and I had the opportunity to attend some great panel discussions on entrepreneurship as well as meet some of my all-time favorite business bloggers. The 5-day conference was intense and exciting and now my brain is overflowing with tons of ideas from all the talks I attended and the people I met. « Continue »