My monthly roundup is a short list of links to services, ideas, and articles that help make marketing and managing your mediation practice more effective and efficient. Here’s the latest:
Diane Levin’s taken her already fantastic blog, Online Guide to Mediation, and made it even better. If you’ve not yet been to her new site at MediationChannel.com, go visit now. It’s lovely, it’s resource-filled and it’s very Diane…smart, stylish, savvy. And while you’re at it, check out her newest blog at WorkLifeBridge.
If what you do with the best hours of your day is not also the thing you’re passionate about, stop right now! That’s Alister Cameron’s admonition in If You Don’t Have Passion and Purpose, Greater Productivity Won’t Help You!
If you’re a mediation road warrior, then you probably have to track your expenses, either for reimbursement or tax purposes. Xpenser promises to make that tedious act a bit simpler by letting you use your phone, text messaging, or computer to send them to an online database, where you can later finalize and export them.
How you do something matters as much — and sometimes more — than what you do. Mediators know this lesson darn well. Next time you need to raise your fees, consider how you communicate the decision to your clients. Raise Your Fees without Raising the Roof has some great tips.
When people visit your website, what do they notice first? Seth Godin’s Eye Tracking Rules summarizes some recent research you’ll want to share with your web designer.
Earlier this month, I included PayPal in my list of 10 Must-Have Tech Tools for the Wired Mediator in 2008. If you’d like to accept credit card payments through your website using PayPal, here are instructions for Making a PayPal Form.
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Tammy, thank you for being so kind. What you modestly haven’t told your readers is that you were the impetus and inspiration for the move to the new blog. You unstintingly offered me much encouragement, support, and friendly words to help me make the long-overdue and astonishingly straightforward transition from Blogger to Wordpress.
But for your example, I don’t think I would have taken this step. And I am so glad I did.
Thanks, Tammy, for showing us all the way!
That’s kind of you, Diane. Wordpress is such a terrific blogging platform. Now we can trade knowledge on great plugins!