Where are you bottlenecked?

by Erica Cosminsky on May 15, 2012

Everyone has a bottleneck in their life or business. Can you easily identify yours?

Laundry (insert sigh)

Mine is 100% without a doubt moving the laundry from the washer to the dryer. I often forget it’s there just long enough that I think “Crap bunnies! I probably need to run it again just in case.” Then I walk off and forget it again. It’s a horrible cycle.
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$100 Startup

by Erica Cosminsky on May 8, 2012

A few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Chris Guillebeau at a book signing for his book, The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World. I loved his book so much that I had already read it before I found out he was coming to Nashville, and I had broken the binding on the book so I went and bought another copy for him to sign.

Chris is so interesting to me because as his main website says he’s about “unconventional people doing remarkable things”. Chris also does “travel hacking” which I had always wanted to do. Instead of talking about traveling, within the next two years Chris will have visited every country in the world. Talk about my excuses being negated.
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Why Adventure?

May 3, 2012

Drew over at Rogue Priest posed a contest to win a ticket to World Domination Summit. Having my head down in grad school, the tickets sold out before I got mine, so here goes. Childhood Dreams Years ago—believe it or not I never dreamed that I’d have kids—and one of my biggest dreams was to [...]

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People! They are People! Are you loosing sight of that?

April 26, 2012

One of the biggest things that I come into contact with in my coaching is what we call dehumanization. Discrimination, disconnection, and computer-screen-blinders all fall under dehumanization. Thoughtless Discrimination My best example in real life that I can give of this is in regards to a maintenance man. We lived in this apartment complex for [...]

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Competition or Collaboration?

April 6, 2012

In 2010, I posted the following post to my transcription site (with some minor additions). Do you guard your business or collaborate with your market?. Recently, some people noticed on Twitter that I was having conversations with other transcriptionists and transcription company owners. I was asked • Aren’t they your competition? • Aren’t you worried [...]

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Don’t Outsource Just for the Sake of Outsourcing

March 30, 2012

Have you heard the saving “You  should outsource everything that you hate doing”? Let’s talk about why that’s not always true. We’ll also cover the cases when you shouldn’t outsource. Yes, I know that sounds a bit contradictory when I told you that you can’t afford to not have help in your business, but let me explain. Please [...]

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How 1 Simple Sheet of Paper Could Cost you $3,200

March 23, 2012

Nasty fines. Working with employees and contractors can cost you a fortune if you don’t set up your systems correctly. The simple I9 form has hefty fines associated with it. There are numerous reasons you want to pay attention to this form.

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The Customer’s Not Always Right

March 5, 2012

When the Customer’s Wrong We’ve all heard the clique phrase “The customer’s always right.” The problem is it’s been taken out of context and it’s not always right. The phrase was coined by Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago around 1910. What they were referring to was their return policy. Up to that point, department stores weren’t [...]

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Finally Accepting New Clients

February 4, 2012

For almost 2 years, I have worked with clients who needed human resources style help, e.g. learning to hire virtual employees or contractors, advice on employees vs contractors and other laws, total HR department replacement, and HR consulting. In December, I graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Leadership with a focus in HR. As [...]

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Gold Star for Office Depot

October 25, 2011

Three weeks ago, I came into my office on Mondayafter we’d had a party at my apartment over the weekend. As I sat down, my chair flung me backwards, in which I hit my knees on the keyboard drawer. As I’m sure you can imagine, I was not happy. I work from home and I [...]

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