Kelly McCausey of Solo Smarts posted her top 10 blog items of 2014 and put out an end-of-year challenge to her readers to create our own Best of the Blog list. I thought it would be fun to review my blog posts of 2014, select my faves and participate. So in answer to Kelly’s challenge, I chose the posts that include tips, tricks, tools and resources for small business owners because those are the items that I write about most and what I benefit most from as a reader. So here are my favourite blog posts of 2014 that contain information to help you to simplify, save time, get organized and run your business as efficiently as possible!
First, some free business tools:
1) Don’t Waste Your Time! Here’s One Simple Tool To Help You Succeed About a simple little tool to help you stay on task.
2) Clean Up Your Messy Code With DirtyMarkup About a tool that cleans up html code when what you see isn’t always what you get.
3) Using Images To Enhance Your Articles About my fave ‘go to’ free image sites.
Next, ways to reduce stress and save time:
4) Inbox Zero: Less Stress, Guaranteed How to deal with too many emails and how freeing “inbox zero” can be.
5) Where Does The Time Go? Identifying And Dealing With Your Time Wasters How to find out where your time is going and get control of it.
Some inspiration and tips for writers:
6) 5 Easy Ways To Come Up With Article Ideas Where to get ideas for articles.
7) Fast Article Writing: Tips For Getting Your Content Ready Under A Deadline How to get content written quickly.
8) Article Writing Tactics That Can Help Your Business Grow How to write valuable content.
And finally, all important networking and customer service tips:
9) The Best Time To Outreach The best and the worst times to post on social media (courtesy of online payroll service, SurePayroll )
10) Customer Service Quotations To Inspire And Motivate 50+ Free Quips, Questions, and Comments to Inspire and Motivate (courtesy of Business Training Works, Inc.)
I hope you enjoyed my ‘Top Ten’ Do you have a favourite?