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A Home-Based Business Online October 29 Sent to 6,354 subscribers Editor: Elena Fawkner Publisher: AHBBO Publishing http://www.ahbbo.com Contact By Email 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 8. 10. 1. Hello again, and a warm welcome to all the new subscribers who have joined us since the last issue! The new AHBBO website is up and running. Please change your bookmarks to http://www.ahbbo.com . I've tried to make the new site as user-friendly yet as comprehensive as possible. There are sections dedicated to home business ideas (many of which are accompanied by explanatory reports), recommended programs and resources (what's worked well for me), links to other great sites that will help you get started with your own home business, article library, a complete AHBBO ezine archive and free ebooks of interest to home business entrepreneurs. Features to follow in coming weeks include a classified ads page where you can advertise your business opportunity (to kick this page off I will start by accepting FREE classifieds on this page from AHBBO subscribers), a submisson point for articles written by third party authors and discussion boards. Also to come are departments dedicated to special-interest communities including work-at-home parents and seniors. I hope you find the new AHBBO website useful and I welcome suggestions for additional features you would like to see included. Finally, please note that I have been having continuing problems receiving email over the past few days. If you've written to me, please be patient. I'm gradually working my way through the backlog. As always, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy this week's issue. Remember, this ezine is for YOU! If you have comments or suggestions for topics you would like to see addressed, or would just like to share your experiences with other subscribers, I want to hear from you! Please send comments, questions and stories to Contact By Email . FED UP with technodrivel when all you want to do is learn how to use the Internet to make money with your computer? Enter Joe Robson and Tom Glander to the rescue. Visit The Newbie Club today, for the common-sense, jargon-free low-down every newbie (and oldbie!) has been waiting for! ------ JOIN THE SUCCESSFUL 1% of marketers earning thousands of dollars per WEEK online, using proven, super-effective and powerful online tactics that cost only pennies to use! 2. An event planner is someone who arranges special events on behalf of clients, either corporate or private. The client will tell the event planner what kind of event is proposed and the budget for it. The event planner then arranges the whole thing including finding the right venue, issuing invitations, catering, transport to and from the event, and accommodation. In addition, the event planner will be responsible for meeting any special needs of attendees and, in the case of corporate functions, probably also the availability of presentation facilities such as audiovisual equipment and the like. The first step is to ascertain the client's objectives for the event and whether it is a corporate or social event. Often, corporate meetings will also include a significant social aspect so the event planner for a management retreat, for example, may also need to arrange for sightseeing or entertainment in addition to the corporate side of the event. Once the objectives are clear, the event planner will then work with the client to set a budget for the event and decide with the client where to hold the event. The event planner needs to know who the attendees will be and where they are travelling from so that accommodation and transport can be arranged as necessary. In addition, the event planner will arrange for catering, communications, labor, meeting facilities, printing and supplies, entertainment, speakers, gratuities, awards, insurance and anything else that may be required for the specific event in question. The event planner, of course, relies on third parties to actually provide these services and will have an established network of contacts with suppliers and vendors among caterers, hotels, travel agencies, printers, furniture/ equipment hirers and so on. Event planners vary in their approach to billing. Some take as their fee a fixed percentage of the total cost of the event (say 10 - 15 percent). Other charge clients on an hourly basis. In either case, event planners will require a deposit (usually a percentage of the budget) to be used to make advance payments. The beginning event planner should expect long hours and low pay when first starting out. The money will improve with experience and reputation, but the hours will always be long because although the planning occurs during the day, the event is usually at night or on the weekend. Personal qualities required in an event planner are leadership, organization skills and attention to detail. A calm disposition is essential as the event planner will have to cope with many last minute "disasters" and personalities. ------ There are many more ideas like this at the AHBBO Home Business Ideas page at free home based business ideas with more being added all the time. 3. © 2017 Elena Fawkner Time is inelastic. Despite what some of us persist in believing, it will NOT magically expand to accommodate all we have to do. So, in order to maximize the time we have available, we have to spend it wisely. Here's how to do that. STRUCTURE YOUR TIME The very first thing to do is understand the structure of your time. If you think of the time you have available as some amorphous dimension, you will fritter it away on this and that without any real consideration of what is the best use of the time available. How many times have you got to the end of your day and felt like you'd accomplished nothing even though you'd been "busy" all day. All time is not equal. If you're a morning person, your morning time is worth more in terms of productivity than your late afternoon time. So think of time as variable in terms of potential for accomplishment and identify your most valuable time. Do the same for your intermediate-value time and your lower-value time. Reserve your most valuable time for your most intellectually demanding activities. Your intermediate value time should be spent on important tasks that don't require quite the same level of concentration. Finally, reserve your low-value time for activities that don't require much in the way of concentration. Now, obviously, if you have a full-time job away from the home, the decision of how to spend your 9 to 5 hours will largely be out of your hands. So, the best you can do if you're a morning person is to try and take care of some of your intellectually demanding activities first thing in the morning, say between 5:00 am and 7:00 am. On the other hand, if you're a night owl, working a full-time job probably won't be much of a problem for you. If you run your own business from home, however, effectively structuring your time in terms of peak, intermediate and low- concentration blocks can make a profound impact on your productivity if you use that time intelligently. IDENTIFY WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO Now that you have some sense of how to best structure your time, you need to turn to what, exactly, you're going to spend that time on. That means identifying what you have to do. And that means identifying what you DON'T have to do as the flipside. When identifying what you have to fit in to your schedule, think about all areas of your life. Making time for yourself is NOT something that you get around to only if there's time left over. Making time for yourself is as much a priority as anything else. A good way of identifying activities that should be included in your schedule is to test them against the criteria of furtherance of an objective. If the activity does nothing to further any objective, why are you even doing it? So start by identifying objectives for your life. Consider categories such as health, finance, business/career, spiritual, family, social, intellectual and so on. Establish objectives for every area of your life that's important to you. Everything you do should bring you closer to an objective. If it doesn't, again, why do it? ALLOCATE YOUR ACTIVITIES Now that you know how to best structure your time and what activities are going to lead you closer to your objectives, it's time to allocate those activities against the time you have available and in accordance with your various concentration levels. Begin by estimating how much time each activity in your day is likely to take. Be realistic about what you can really accomplish in one day. If you overload yourself you're only going to stress out about what you're NOT doing and that makes you less effective in what you ARE doing. So pace yourself. Just don't WASTE time. Assign your most intellectually demanding activities to your peak concentration time. This may be writing a chapter of your ebook or writing an article for the next issue of your ezine. Assign your less concentration-intensive activities to your intermediate concentration time. This may be redesigning a web page or reading and responding to email, for example. Finally, assign your truly "no concentration required" activities to your low concentration periods. If you've allocated time to exercising, this would be a good time to do a workout. KILLING TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE There's no reason why you can't use the same time to accomplish more than one thing. For example, I am writing this article (a high concentration activity) on my laptop while enjoying coffee in a Santa Monica cafe (a low concentration activity). GROUP LIKE TASKS Grouping like tasks will allow you to accomplish more in the same amount of time. It is much more efficient to run three errands while you're out and about rather than making three separate trips. Similarly, it's more time-efficient to run one large load of laundry rather than two separate, smaller loads. So give some thought to these mundane sorts of activities too. There's always a way to shave off a bit of time by grouping similar activities and doing them in one hit. Email's another prime example. Far more efficient to check and respond to mail twice a day than to read and respond to each message as and when it comes in, thereby distracting yourself from what you were doing in the first place. By thinking about what you have to do and scheduling those tasks in conformity with your concentration levels as well as grouping like activities, you will naturally make the most effective use of the time available. Your productivity will increase proportionately. ------ use the autoresponder copy which contains a resource box; and (2) you leave the resource box intact. To receive a copy of this article by autoresponder, just send a blank email to 4. jl Scott's popular Pro-motion column is no longer in ezine syndication. Instead, you can read this week's column at the AHBBO website at http://www.ahbbo.com/pro-motion.html . If opportunity doesn't knock -build a door!Easy to follow steps to success Gives you step by step; easy to follow directions, how to's, etc. For only $20.00. 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