Appointment Scheduling for Solopreneurs

January 26, 2022July 18, 2016

As solopreneurs, we need to reduce the time required to schedule appointments as much as possible, for this is not billable time. Using e-mails and phone calls back and forth is very time-consuming. What options do we have for appointment scheduling for solopreneurs?

We can:

make/take appointments ourselves
use an auto-scheduling program
hire a Virtual Assistant (VA) to manage them

Our goal must be efficiency for the business owner and respect for others’ time.

Communication Methods & Styles

January 26, 2022July 4, 2016

Chances are that as a solopreneur, you wrestle with thoughts about the best way to communicate with your clients and prospects. Today we will look at a variety of methods and styles of communication to help you select the right ones for your business.

How To Engage A Prospect

January 26, 2022April 11, 2016

Solopreneurs must above all other skills, know how to engage a prospect so that they are able to sell enough products or services to make a living.

A prospect is a potential client who has expressed a need for the product or service that you offer and has the ability to pay. This means that we must give them every opportunity to express that need; they must be able to find us in a way that is convenient for them.

How To Create and Run A Success Circle

January 26, 2022April 4, 2016

If you are a solopreneur working from a home office alone, you don’t experience the advantages of working as part of a team. You may have a life partner who sometimes acts as a sounding board providing encouragement, but partners rarely have the kind of interest, knowledge or objectivity that will help you make good business decisions. What you need is a group that will offer ideas and provide feedback that will help you expand your thinking. How To Create and Run A Success Circle tells how to get those qualities in a group.

How To Develop and Maintain Your Reputation

January 26, 2022February 28, 2016

Recently there has been a lot of online discussion about the importance of reputation for businesses. For solopreneurs, it’s really about personal reputation. The following How To Develop And Maintain Your Reputation summary gives advice that is still relevant despite the fact that it was taken from a career book “Zen and the Art of Making A Living- A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design” by Laurence Boldt back in 1993.

Zen and The Art of Making a Living book cover

Tips On Writing Emails That Get Read

January 26, 2022February 22, 2016

Recently our Being Your Own CEO Success Circle held an exploration of this topic (Tips On Writing Emails That Get Read) and there were some ideas that I think worth sharing. I will include the results of my research as well as include some suggestions made by the others:

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