Strategic Business Tips from Kim Beasley

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With the New Year starting today, I decided to start a new month-long series to help business owners find different ways to grow their businesses. During this month, I will share different tips that will help you to not only grow your business but also manage its growth.

Some of the topics that I plan on covering this month are:

• Cross marketing
• Social media
• Business management
• Virtual support teams
• Blogging

As I share these tips, I want to encourage you to respond with a comment about how they have helped you with your business or share additional information of how you currently are using the chosen topic. I’m looking forward to hearing of great things for everyone.

While watching the Today Show, I listened to a segment about how time change in the US may have an affect on the rate of heart-attacks. Studies have been done that seem to show that when time changes, that sleep patterns are affected. Which in turn my affect your heart. Wow!

As a business owner, I work many hours and sometimes I don’t get enough sleep. After watching the video below, I decided I would try out the theory that more sleep helps you feel better. So I’m changing my sleep pattern with the time change to see how my days are affected.

Watch the video below and let me know what you think. Do you think you should change your sleep pattern when time changes?

I was alerted this morning to the fact that Twitter was featured in an article by http://WallStreetJournal.com by Twitter @BloggersBlog. It’s great to see that many more media sources are finally realizing the power of Twitter.

Find out more: Twitter Goes Mainstream – WSJ.com.

As a business owner and entrepreneur, I realized that I couldn’t grow my business successfully if I didn’t have a solid support team. So I purposefully sought out Virtual Assistants (VAs) that I felt would not only be beneficial to my business but I would also be able to help them grow their business.

Recently, I was featured in an editorial column on Entrepreneur.com by Patti Simone regarding “Virtual Help for Real Entrepreneurs” about this very topic. The purpose of this article was to share how entrepreneurs were using VAs to grow their business.

If you are an entrepreneur and have yet to start working with a VA then I would highly suggest that you hire one. For more details about hiring a VA, please check out my post on this website entitled, “Business Makeover: Hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA)“.

I would love to hear about your experience in working with a VA (good or bad) because I believe that we can all learn from each other.

Have you loved on your blog today by spending time with it? What I mean by this is have you added a new post to it so that it will know that you still love it? I’m declaring it “Love Your Blog” Day and encouraging all bloggers to love on their blog today.

If you have already loved on your blog then I applaud you and encourage you to do this everyday. I wained a little bit in showing love to my blog but now I’m back and looking forward to spending time sharing my knowledge via my blog.

Some of the ways that I’m loving on my blog:

• Updating plugins
• Updating WordPress installation
• Adding plugins that make it run better
• Adding content that encourages others to read it’s feed
• Sharing links to it
• Applying SEO techniques
• And finally, updating the look of it

What are some ways that you love on your blog?