How many emails do you send each day?

One prime piece of real estate is your signature on these emails. Present yourself in a professional manner, but remember it is always important to have fun.

1. Have all your information in your signature.

Be sure that it is current!
Including your picture is a good way to remind people who you have just met who you are.

2. Make it fun and memorable.

Add a quote, fun fact, or something about you that makes people smile. I like to change mine out every month or so.

3. Make it look great!

TC suggests contacting a staffing agency, such as 10 til 2, that specializes in part-time placement services. If you need a full-time person, or a very special talent, like getting along with TC – a very special talent indeed, you can put an ad on Linked-In or in Craigslist.

• TC puts in all her ads to NOT send a resume, but to call first. It helps to have someone else answer the phone that knows you well. Whoever you hire, they will more than likely be answering your phone, or talking with your clients – you need to know how they sound.
• She doesn’t like looking at resumes, her thought is anyone can pay someone to look good on paper. Resumes are great for people applying to a corporation, TC is more interested in how someone presents themselves.
• She then asks them to write a couple of paragraphs about who they are, their favorite food, music, etc. and email it right away. This is so she can see if they can compose a decent email.
• Next she Googles them, if they pass they get interview on the phone by both TC and one of her friends.
• Pass all these steps and then they get the wonderful opportunity to get interviewed in person.

Many people tease TC for having a full-time assistant. They ask her, do you really need her? TC doesn’t know how she’d get along without having someone full-time. Lately, Julie’s been sick and it’s been killing TC – because she has only been able to work a few hours a day.

TC’s belief is that your business completely changes the day you have payroll. Having the responsibility of paying someone else moves your business to a different level in your head. You start focusing on the things that actually MAKE money, instead of busy work.

People forget that you don’t have to hire someone full-time right off the bat. TC starts her assistants out at 5 hours a week, and tell them to figure out how/what they can do to get more hours (Julie was at 40 hours right away). If they can’t figure out how they can help you, get another assistant. That way, you’re only out a few hours of pay, instead of spending 20 hours training someone and realizing that they aren’t proactive.

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Julie’s never worked at a place that’s told her to find her own hours. What does that even mean? It was confusing, but she caught on pretty quick.

What TC wanted was for Julie to be proactive and ask TC to show her things, so Julie could work on her own. Luckily for Julie, TC needed lots of help and she is always really, really busy.

Julie’s wonderful job includes: putting business cards into ACT, designing emails, bugging clients, invoicing, running errands, etc. TC gets to do the fun stuff, like going to lunch, networking, speaking at events, and talking to clients out in the field. Julie even gets to try and read her mind.