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Good time management is an essential key to creating and
maintaining a successful personal and professional life. So why
is poor time management one of the top reasons people do not
reach their goals?

Prioritize and Plan: Create a time management plan. Try
clarifying your priorities, your strengths and weaknesses, and
your goals on a personal and professional level. Have an
ongoing, categorized Master List including all the "to do"
items in every area of your life. Write these down and place a
star by the ones which are the most important. Get those tasks
"out of your head and onto paper" so there is no worry about
forgetting something. At the end of each day, refer to the
Master List and cross off the items you accomplished. Then
identify the most important items you will do tomorrow. Write
these items on a Daily Accomplishment List.

At the first of each month, set aside an hour to plan your
month. Use a Month-At-A-Glance calendar to block off your
personal/family obligations with a colored highlighter. Then
use a green highlighter to block off time for interviews,
shows, office time, networking, and attending team events.

Making the most of your time: Being effective means doing the
right job for the right reasons. Remember to stay focused on
what will bring the greatest return on your time and energy. A
good rule of thumb is to spend 80% of your "Business" time on
income producing activities and 20% on management activities.

The following example is for a part-time career of twenty hours
per week: Sixteen hours on income producing activity (selling
products, booking and holding shows, and prospecting/holding
interviews with new Consultants), four hours on management
activity (office administration, self-improvement, etc.) Again,
focus 80% of your time on activities that promote sales and 20%
of your time on management.

=B7 Improve the quality of your time by evaluating when you feel
most alert. Try to schedule your appointments or make phone
calls for your business during the times you are at your best.

=B7 Monitor the way you spend your time by using an activity log.
Take a few days to write down daily activities and the time it
takes you to accomplish them. Based on the information you
gather, make the necessary changes.

=B7 Create extra hours for yourself by getting up early. This is
an easy way to create more time. If you get up 1-hour early for
a year, you will create approximately 10 additional working
weeks.

Set yourself up for success by sticking to your schedule and
not taking on additional obligations that will take away from
your personal/family time or your business. Learn to say "NO!"
Time Management and planning work hand in hand for the success
of your business. It gives you a sense of peace as well as a
feeling of order.

About The Author: Nicki Keohohou is Co-Founder of
http://www.DSWA.org (the only asso=
ciation dedicated to the
needs of independent party plan and network marketing
professionals). Discover what makes DSWA unique. Listen to
motivating and informative free teleseminars by visiting
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Being in business has always been competitive but never as much
as it is since the technology age has evolved. That means you
need to stay ahead of the competition and you will once you
discover the CRM advantage?

If you haven’t heard about CRM it’s time you did. CRM stands
for Customer Relationship Management software. There are many
excellent software packages on the market for you to explore.

What will CRM software do for your company? CRM software is
designed to assist your business in organizing all data that is
related to the client. That’s right from the sales lead to the
sales close and everything in between including. It will build
a complete client profile and that profile is available to all
staff members whether they are in marketing, sales, or
accounting.

Still wondering why you should use CRM software? Here’s a
scenario that your company has likely already experienced.

1. You have a potential customer that phones to ask a question
about your product. Your staff answers.

2. Next day that same potential customer emails you an
additional question and your staff answers that.

3. Two weeks later they email back "Yes." Okay but two weeks
have gone by and you have no idea what the "yes" pertains to.

4. The next day she emails referring to the telephone
conversation of which you have no record and are unsure how to
proceed.

Customer service issues can become complex quickly, especially
when you multiply by the number of customers you have and the
number of potential customers. Wouldn’t it be nice to have all
of their information at your fingertips? That scenario
described above would have bee a piece of cake if all the
information relating to the conversations were recorded
somewhere and your CRM software will do just that.

You’ll have both happy potential customers and existing
customers because you will be able to deal with them quickly
and efficiently. And isn’t that what we all want? Your staff
will also be less stressed and happier because they will be
dealing with happy customers. After all picture the above
scenario happening hundreds of times a month or week. There’s a
lot of wasted time and energy messing around with this kind of
thing.

When we think hi-tech we commonly think of a system that are
very un-personal, and place individuals in little compartments
removing the human element. CRM is not like that =96 rather it
helps staff remain more personable, and it keeps customers much
happier because staff can instantly help them.

But there’s more to CRM software. It allows marketing
departments to collect and analyze data so that they can better
target their consumer. It allows technical departments to know
where improvements need to be made, it allows sales departments
to re-evaluate sales information to look for weaknesses and
strengths, and it also allows management of all levels to
evaluate staff and customer data.

Customer Relationship Management software is one of the most
powerful customer service tools to become available. And
serious business owners that want to get that edge and stay
ahead of the competition or discovering CRM and all of its
advantages.

About The Author: Sayed Ally, is the lead CRM Analyst. His
company provides, http://ww=
w.crmsoftwareprovider.com/ CRM
Software. Sayed can be reached at Tel : (905) 815- 1995 ext 22,
email: aSayed@cqsolutions.=
com.

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