April 21, 2008

Direct Selling Womans Alliance or DSWA

Filed under: business, direct sales, sales, motivation, team leader — BizMom @ 9:55 pm

I just went to the BEST convention EVER!  It was the annual DSWA’s (or Direct Selling Woman’s Alliance) convention.  This year it was held in Las Vegas!  It totally has changed my entire life.  My focus is better, I know where I want to go as a business woman and as a business.  I have clear goals and a new determination to get there. 

I was able to network with others and meet some amazing people.  There were several millionaires (I WISH!!) that were there and looked just like normal people!  They were amazing. 

The food was great, and they kept us busy from dawn until dusk with networking, classes, a movie, break out classes and much more.  I only wish that I could accurately describe all of the wonderful things that happened this past weekend!  In another post, I will have to get more specific about some of the things that I have learned and the people who spoke there. 

For now, let me just say, I LOVE THE DSWA (even though I didn’t win any of the fabulous drawings that they had there ;o))!!!!  I will be going back to this convention every year for many years to come…and I will be a better person and business person because of it. 

If anyone within the sound of my typing is interested in checking out the DSWA, let me know!  They gave us a coupon to give to our friends for the 1st 30 days, it is only $1!  You will get access to all the great teleclasses, and everything that they offer their members.  Make a comment here that you want that coupon, or e-mail me at awnya @ momsbizbuzz . com (without any spaces).

Spread the word!  This is the best Business tip/help I have found yet.

Awnya Boam

http://www.time4felt.com/

March 13, 2008

Organizing Business & Personal Life Tasks

Filed under: business, WAHM, SAHM, time managment — BizMom @ 8:34 am

Today’s tip come to us from Elaine K. Stephen of Inspirational Gift Gallery.  Elaine also has a blog at of inspirational Christian stories, poems and gifts at http://inspirationalgifts.blogspot.com/.

She says:

“One of the first things I noticed when I started my home business was that there were an awful lot of tasks that had to be tended to on a regular basis and still fit them in with all my personal life tasks too. I started writing sticky notes and attaching them to my computer monitor. Before I knew it, I had so many sticky notes on my computer monitor, they just blended in with the edge of my computer monitor and I stopped reading them. I was always behind on getting things done or late for appointments. I needed to organize my business and personal life tasks, and real soon!

I thought and thought about what would work for me and here is what I came up with…

I purchased an eraser board, a cork bulletin board and a pocket calendar. On one side of the eraser board, I listed all of my business and personal life tasks that had to be performed on a regular basis. I listed them in order of importance, daily tasks, weekly tasks, monthly tasks, quarterly tasks and annual tasks. On the other side of the board I would add in appointments, holiday and vacation plans, and one time projects that I wanted to accomplish. I selected an eraser board because I wanted something that would be easy to change. As my business grew and changed, so would my business tasks and personal life plans are always changing. I wanted something that would be large enough to fit and see everything at a glance and hard to ignore without wasting a lot of paper.

The cork bulletin board was a necessity because along with certain business tasks come informational papers. I wanted to be able to get my hands on what I needed fast and easy. I tacked up my papers with push pins. When it is time to update them, it is fast and easy to replace them.

When I was leaving the home to go to work, keeping track of days and dates was much easier. I had to be at work on certain days and at certain times and I had to request vacation time, so who could help but keep track of time? But when I started working from home and had the freedom to work whatever days and times I wanted to, suddenly keeping track of the days and dates became much harder. A pocket calendar was a necessity.

Now it was time to put my plan into action. If I didn’t do it immediately, my eraser board, bulletin board and pocket calendar would have become as obsolete as my sticky notes in a very short amount of time. I decided that every morning as soon as I took care of my son’s and my own personal needs, I would go directly to my computer room and pick up my pocket calendar and mark the day. Then I would look at my eraser board and determine what I needed to accomplish that day. I would look at my daily task (examples: processing orders, reading hour with my son), weekly tasks (example: every Monday update product availability, every Friday go food shopping), monthly tasks (example: last day of the month, tally up state sales tax collected, 1st day of the month review my personal checking account statement) and quarterly tasks (example: submit my state sales tax online, plan upcoming holidays and vacations) and write out my day’s schedule on a piece of paper that I could carry along with me wherever I went.

It wasn’t long at all before I could complete my daily schedule in 10 minutes or less. By following the schedule and marking off tasks as I accomplished them, my business and personal life was finally organized. Things were getting done on time!

As we all know, nothing is perfect. Sometimes an emergency occurs, I forget to write an appointment on the board, or the tasks on the board take longer than the day is long. But one thing I can say for sure is, I always know what day it is!”

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Thanks so much Elain!  I learned a lot!

Awnya Boam

http://www.time4felt.com/

February 24, 2008

Protect your web domain name

Filed under: Uncategorized, business — BizMom @ 10:30 pm

Today’s advise comes to us from Laura Wheeler of MicroBusiness Web Development Expert and
co-owner of Firelight Web Studio.

She says:

“Protect Your Web Domain Name - Your domain name (http://www.yourname.com/) is
the most important web asset you have. If you lose it, you lose your
business identity, and all your traffic. Protect it from being snatched
away from you.

1. Do not let anyone else EVER put the domain name under their name.
Keep it in yours, or the company name.
2. Keep the contact address in the registrar account up to date. Your
domain name registrar company (the company you bought it from) requires
you to have a contact email address on file. Make sure you use an active
email address that is NOT attached to the domain name and update it if
the email address changes. Otherwise you won’t get expiration notices.
3. Renew it on time. If you lose it, it is gone. Someone else will buy
it and there is nothing you can do about it.

Protecting your domain name is the first thing you want to do in keeping
a website healthy and earning.”
Thanks Laura!

Awnya Boam

http://www.time4felt.com/

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