A lot of nonprofits struggle with fundraising, in spite of their success and community support. Usually, you just can’t afford to hire someone to do fundraising, so you’re stuck in this catch-22. What’s the solution? Your organization has all the potential it needs. You just need to coordinate all your functions towards this deceptively simple […]
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A lot of nonprofits struggle with fundraising, in spite of their success and community support. Usually, you just can’t afford to hire someone to do fundraising, so you’re stuck in this catch-22. What’s the solution? Your organization has all the potential it needs. You just need to coordinate all your functions towards this deceptively simple
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Had an interesting experience with ChatGPT the other day. I was helping a client put together a business plan, so I put in the query : “Help me write a business plan for a business that provides XXX service to YYY people with a specialty in ZZZ.” I got a really interesting and useful result,
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Open this link and bookmark it somewhere you will see it every day, ideally your bookmarks bar: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/recent This shows you all the documents, regardless of format, that you have used (opened/uploaded etc) most recently. This should show you most of what you will use every day, so it’s a good place to get started.
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Let’s say you’re messing around on your computer, and you have an absent minded moment, and do something you immediately regret. What do you do? Curse? Feel your heart sink into your belly? Panic? Say terrible things to yourself?? STOP! Mistakes are how we learn, after all. This kind is almost always easy to fix,
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This can save you significant amounts of time and brainspace. Training your muscles to do this allows you to skip the entire process where you stop typing, look for the mouse or touchpad, move the cursor around and click the buttons and so on, and then put your hands back on the keyboard and get
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Do this whenever you get an email you don’t need to read. It may feel overwhelming at first, but once you get started you’ll notice an impact immediately. Now, there will be emails that you don’t need to look at immediately, but that you will need to take action on. You can use labels and
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How do you Lots of this information is in your head, and in the heads of your current team members. This works great when you’re starting out and doing everything yourself. But as your team and business grows, it’s very easy for this informal approach to result in inefficiencies, avoidable errors, and missed opportunities. Every
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Entrepreneurs! How much do you love admin! Let’s hear it Let me tell you a story. I knew an entrepreneur once. She had a real head for business, and had started up a couple of different ones – a diner, a cleaning company, an organic snacks distributor. When I worked for her, she was starting
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Being an entrepreneur is great, but as things get more complicated, they can get pretty nerve-wracking. The chaos and uncertainty of success can make you worry that you’re missing something, and the thought of growth can be overwhelming if you aren’t prepared. What’s the best way to prepare? Documentation! That’s right: the straightforward act of
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The right assistant can take scheduling off your to-do list, while making sure you’re always prepared, and where you need to be
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Hiring a virtual assistant is a big investment of time, money and opportunity. What steps can you take to ensure success for both of you?
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Are you looking to hire someone who can help with day-to-day tasks, so you can focus on what you’re great on? Read this first.
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You know you need an assistant, but where do you even start? When your business is growing fast, your day-to-day operations can take up too much space in your brain. It’s hard to find time to think about the big picture because you spend too much time doing admin and operational tasks – managing your
Virtual Assistant: Agency or freelancer? Read More »
Or, This One Simple Act Can Revolutionize your Group Dynamics I once lived in a big house shared by five or so other transient types, backpackers, travellers, grad students, etc. The owner was a guy who lived there with us because although he was a homeowner and a professional, he was a backpacker at heart
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You have too much to do without having to worry about forgetting things.
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It can hurt to watch a small business or nonprofit bleed money because of unforced admin errors.
Cringey Admin Mistakes Part 2 Read More »
Change is hard when everyone’s experience with technology is so different. How do you know you’re making the right choices?
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Fundraising is core to the mission of your nonprofit – it’s too important to leave in the hands of a committee!
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There are lots of reasons your nonprofit needs a strong social media presence. Here are just five!
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