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Aug
5

What Is Your Time Worth?

by Jeanette

Time ValueWhether you’re setting a value on your time for a sales letter – or trying to figure out how much a personal project is “costing you” it’s important to know what your time is worth.

Now we’d all like to just plug our name into a magic calculator, along with our related experience and education, and have the machine tell us “Your Time is worth this amount.” But since that’s not going to happen, let’s consider alternatives.

Method 1: What You’re Paid

If you’re still working a job, it’s a fairly easy calculation to see what you’re paid per hour. Just take your annual salary and divide by 2000. That’s the average work hours per year.

Sure, that’s not really what you’re worth, because you’re being underpaid. But it will give you something to work with.

Method 2: Annual Income

If you’re self-employed, take your gross income for the year and divide by 2000. That’s your hourly earnings.

You can also rely on your “billing rate” for consulting. But for every hour you are paid Read More→

4 Categories : Business Clean Up, Online Business, Online Success
Aug
4

Clean Up: Changing Pace

by Jeanette

It’s only day 3 but already I’m sensing a different pace in the physical world than I experience in my digital world.

In the physical world, it’s slower. You have more time to think and reflect. I like that. Driving around town, dropping things off, I have time to think – instead of DO.

In the digital world, you can get more done, faster. You can have an idea, do the research and actually get it done – all within minutes. There is no heavy lifting, waiting for businesses to open, driving to get there.

I think the immediacy of the digital world leads to a lot of the “I want it NOW” perspective we see in society. We get so used to being able to think it and see it immediately that impatience sets in when we have to wait a day or two.

It’s no wonder that people who enjoy gardening always seem so calm and centered. They are used to being patient and waiting for plants to grow.

Who knew that taking paint to the hazardous waste disposal would yield so much contemplation!

Clean Up – a new world awaits!

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Aug
3

Clean Up: It Gets faster

by Jeanette

Cates Clean UpOne of the things I’m finding in my Clean Up is that it gets faster as I go. Part of it may be experience and skills. But I think a good part of it is just getting used to getting rid of things.

For example, I had an old gmail account that had a few pieces of information I needed to keep. But it also had thousands of email newsletters I’d never gotten around to reading.

So I figured out how to find all the emails from one person (started with Mike Filsaime, since I knew that would clean out a TON of messages!). Then I saw how to delete them all at once.

Since gmail is not my native email environment (I’m an Outlook user) I’m learning new skills as I go.

The “reason” I have kept all of these messages came back to me – “I might want to review their methods of marketing one day” Yeah RIGHT! If I haven’t gotten around to studying their methods in the past two years (yes TWO years!) then I’m not likely to do it. Besides, I have my OWN methods now!

A few times at the start I agonized over a particular subject line – “Mmm, sounds like something I really want to read” – but I hit the delete key anyway. And the more I hit the delete key, the more excited I got about seeing that clean inbox.

One realization I have had – that the really good marketers (translated – making a lot more money than anyone else) mail frequently and forever! They don’t get discouraged if you don’t buy in six months. They just keep mailing.

And they mail often. Four, five, six times a week.

So what does that tell you? Yes, I don’t always read their messages – but they are there when I DO want to read them. And it only takes one message – because I can assure you, without even opening those message, that every one of them contains a link.

So if someone were cleaning out messages from you over the past two years – how many messages would there be?

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Aug
2

August Clean Up

by Jeanette

Cates Clean UpI’m up to my ears in my first day of cleaning, but I wanted to share a little bit of the background with you as I start this adventure.

You see, I was raised in the military. As a military child, and later a military wife, we moved every 1, 2 or 3 years. That meant that at least every 3 years, you had to sort through things in order to keep the “move weight” to a minimum.

But times have changed. My husband is no longer in the military – and hasn’t been for 35 years.

We’ve lived in this house for 28 years.

Basically, it’s time for a clean up!

Now add to that a couple of other houses that we’ve inherited from Read More→

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