business Archives - Award-Winning Writer and Graphic Designer https://dorriolds.com/tag/business/ Customized Solutions Based on Your Goals Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:31:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/dorriolds.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 business Archives - Award-Winning Writer and Graphic Designer https://dorriolds.com/tag/business/ 32 32 207474651 Keeping Your Dog Happy While Running a New Business https://dorriolds.com/keeping-dog-happy-running-new-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keeping-dog-happy-running-new-business Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:31:12 +0000 https://www.dorriolds.com/?p=8203 Your dog is our best friend and a family member, which is why making your dog happy should be one of your number one priorities. This can change when starting a business. Here are suggested tips: take your dog for a long walk in the mornings, make the most of your mornings off to spend quality time with your dogs.

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]]> Your dog is probably your best friend, or even thought of as a family member, which is why making your dog happy should be one of your number one priorities. This can all change when starting a business, though, as you’ll probably not have much time for yourself, let alone your dog. That said, it’s important you do everything you can to ensure your dog is still happy with the arrangement. Of course, things will have to change and the amount of time you get to spend with your dog will diminish, but there are still plenty of things you can do to ensure your dog is leading a happy lifestyle and these are outlined below.

Take Your Dog for a Long Walk in the Mornings

Your dog won’t be happy with the diminished time they get to spend with you due to your business commitments so it’s important you make sure you take your dog for a long walk at least once per day, even if that means you have to get up an hour earlier in the morning. There is no good to come of letting your dog out in the garden and then expecting another family member to take the dog out for a walk during the day when you could be getting up earlier to do it instead. Deep down, your dog will wonder why they don’t get to see you as much, but as long as they get to spend at least a little time with you per day, that’s is all that matters.

Make the Most of Your Weekends Off

When running a business, it’s hard to have any time off at all, but any time you do get off should be spent with the family and that includes your dog. Whether you go on a day trip somewhere or even just for a walk around the park, try to get your dog involved as much as possible so they don’t feel left out. Even if you are running a successful business that takes up most of your time, it’s always important to make time for your loved ones and that includes your dog.

Buy Your Dog Regular Treats

This doesn’t necessarily mean buy your dog any treats related to food. Instead, buying a new chew toy once every couple of months, and a small treat every week or so, could be the difference between your dog knowing you care and thinking you don’t.

You may well have achieved an online MBA degree via one of the many online MBA programs to give you the business administration experience required to succeed in running your own company, but none of that will matter if you do not spend some time with your loved ones once in a while. Your dog might be a dog, but it doesn’t mean that they do not understand what is going on around them.  So please keep these tips in mind to keep your beloved dog a priority.

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]]> 8203 Free Advice From A Social Media Consultant https://dorriolds.com/free-advice-from-a-social-media-consultant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-advice-from-a-social-media-consultant Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:52:39 +0000 https://www.dorriolds.com/?p=5585 Some online communication faux pas can alienate your audience and make your overall communication less effective, says New York City online communications consultant Dorri Olds. She has worked with hundreds of small businesses, helping them build web sites and master social media. Olds works to cure her clients of these afflictions.

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]]> Thanks goes to Gwen Moran and Entrepreneur magazine for interviewing me on DO’s and DON’T’s with Twitter, Facebook, and all online communications:
3 Annoying Online Communication Habits You Need to Break
by Gwen Moran
Today, most communication happens online. With countless electronic exchanges throughout the day, it’s tough to craft a perfect message every time. But there are some online communication faux pas that can actually alienate your audience and make your overall communication less effective, says New York City online communications consultant Dorri Olds. She has worked with hundreds of small businesses, helping them build web sites and master social media. Olds works to cure her clients of these three afflictions.
1. Tone-deafness.
Email especially isn’t known for its ability to communicate tone, so it’s easy for straightforward messages to be misunderstood. Jotting a short direct response may be a time-saver for you, but also may appear abrupt or snippy to the recipient. While you don’t have to pepper your response with emoticons, you should review your email, posts and texts before you hit send to make sure you’re not coming across as unintentionally abrasive.
Softening a direct response with a salutation (such as “Hi, Joe” or “Great to hear from you, Mary.”) or signing off with “thank you” or “best regards” takes a few more key strokes, but can prevent your message from being lost among hurt feelings or annoyance.
Related: 4 Easy Tools for Cleaning Up Your Email Inbox
2. Promotion sickness. 
“Some people think that we’re far more interested in what they’re doing than we really are,” says Olds. If your tweets or posts are all about you all the time, your audience is probably tuning you out. Olds likes a one-to-six ratio of promotion to other content — only one promotional post or tweet for every six you send out. In addition, when you’re using email, be sure you’re offering something of value to the recipient like a promotional offer or good content.
She also strongly advises using your platform to promote others and help them build their followings through reposting and re-tweeting good content. Also, if your email signature is seven or eight lines long, no one is reading it. Cut it down to the essential one or two messages about yourself to be more effective.
3. Negative state of mind. 
No one wants to read wallowing, complaining or mean-spiritedness. If you engage in this type of communication on a regular basis, you could be hurting your image. At the same time, Olds doesn’t believe that you can’t be personal in your posts. If you’re being authentic and sharing your feelings about a certain matter, it makes you more accessible and people get a better sense of who you are, she says. But how you position yourself online is important.
“Why would you post that you’re desperate for new customers or that you’re goofing off at work because you hate your job? Think about what you’re posting. Would you want your customers to read it? If not, don’t put it out there,” she says.
Related: When to Call Versus When to Email
 

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