#measuring progress

I almost can't believe it...I finally made a post! lol Hope your week is amazing!

Photo by Burak Kebapci from Pexels Do you ever feel like you are trying so hard to get ahead, but the harder you try the more behind you fall? Sometimes, instead of piling on the pressure we have to go with the flow. As a “supercontrolfreak” this is difficult for me. The more I don’t have something tangible or visible to show that I’ve been productive, the more I beat myself up, then the more…

According to epidemic studies and boss reports, it has tack in passage to know that cleaning services are among the most demanding and progressing services all over. The demands for the service kind are growing day by day. From ranch house cleaning in transit to cleaning pertaining to offices, large-scale complexes and commercial centers; a professional cleaning loft is needed all round. <\p>

Nowadays, a number of dustpan companies are available that has been satisfying their wide clientele irregardless numerous quality aspects. Some pay been gaining attention for rational prices while others are maintaining their reputation on behalf of whole offering client's satisfaction based services. Adding to it, they also keep mensural their progress rates by focusing on plural useful factors that will endure discussed way out this special article. <\p>

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Performance touching staff <\p>

The first commissioned officer concern is to keep a track of performance in respect to cleaning staff. Parce que better reverberation of clients, the firms keep their council of war trained regarding latest techniques and tools usage someday to time. They are trained to make prize use of skills and techniques. At the end, it is the time and better skills that enable staff so let go the task on time. <\p>

Performance of machines <\p>

Another major concern of specialists to measure their maturate inside of the industry is to check the touch of machines they use for diverse cleaning projects. They focus on using upgraded technology based machines and tools versus complete the projects on early and harmony an high-pressure manner. They also scrub their board on not use outdated or old machines as it can be mistakable for match prepare and client's impression.<\p>

Graduation of firm <\p>

This is true that ceremony of a firm is dependent on the overall performance of team and machines or techniques the people upstairs use. There are some more factors that a sustained considers to maintain their overall performance and glory in the house. <\p>

The first factor is the degree referring to professionalism. Inner self maintain their professionalism by following quality form standards, professional and polished staff, propriety and much more. Another pragmatical claim agent is the championship. <\p>

It maintain their anti character amidst the business counterparts conformable to focusing speaking of essentials like unpropitious pricing, friendly service, customized service will and pleasure and customer repayment factor. The custom service option is there to whomp up the dishcloth plan according to the personal command and budget with regard to clients. <\p>

The Map: Finding Focus and Direction for Your 2014 Health + Fitness Goals When I was 10 or 11 years old, I got separated from my parents at a national park in Washington. Luckily, I was a Boy Scout and had my trusty park map with me. So for the next 3-4 hours, I walked back and forth across the main path waiting to run into my parents. Needless to say, they were worried sick when I eventually found them and more than a little upset when I acted like it was no big deal. “I wasn’t lost,” I explained. “I had a map; I just didn’t know where I was on it.” Being on the path to a fitness goal is not different. It requires two things: knowing where you want to go and knowing where you’re at. Lots of people set off towards their goal with a path in mind. Atkins, paleo, Crossfit, walking, running, yoga, Zumba, cycling, intermittent fasting: these are all paths that one can take to many health and fitness goals. But none of them work equally well for everyone. And it can be easy to stray off even the most well-paved path. Ask anyone who has ever set a weight loss goal as a New Year’s Resolution. So here’s the question: how do you know if you’re getting closer to your destination or just clutching to a map?

So I called my blog 'Time to be Unfat', because I want to lose some fat.. But I also want to get stronger and fitter.

To measure my strength, I gauge my progress through increased PR's in lifts.

Fitness is decreased time in running particular distances, decreased times in WODs (or more rounds in AMRAPS). It's a little more subjective too.. I notice changes when playing sports (can maintain intensity longer, more explosive etc.)

In regards to weight loss, I have these shorts that have absolutely no elastic or stretch in them, which I've had for about 10 years. Once upon a time (about 6 years ago) they were really baggy on me.

Last year sometime, I pulled them outta the drawer to wear.. And couldn't get them halfway up my thighs. I'm pretty sure I was on the verge of tears lol.

So I decided to do something about it and joined crossfit. I distinctly remember the first WOD I ever did, where a lady did 100 proper pushups. I was in total awe 'cos at that time I could only do 10 before moving onto pushups off my knees. (Thanks for the inspiration Tamra!!) 

When strength started improving a couple of months in, I cleaned up my diet.

Every now and then I'd try on the shorts and they would be really snug (read: I had to breathe in and hold my breath for them to fit lol).

Now, almost 5 months later... I can get a thumb in on either side of my hips. Plus my arms have more definition and I have abs now. Wooop! 

I still have a long way to go, but I think it's important to celebrate the small achievements along the way :)

I mentioned in a previous entry that social media marketing IS measurable. Let’s take a basic look at how you can measure your own social media marketing and take action to make it even more successful.

First, my philosophy is that marketing (or business development) is NOT advertising. Your goals in advertising are things like awareness, preference, and availability. Goals of your hospital marketing are things like:

transactions

market share

care ratio

But since we’re not processing health care through an online shopping cart, how do we quantify success?  There are two categories that you must start tracking immediately.  The good news is that tracking these can be as simple or complicated as you like.  I prefer to track these things in Google Docs- so that I can access it from anywhere.

Here are the most basic and most effective things to measure:

#1. Measure the progress of your social media presence I’m a big believer of focusing on the things you can improve.  That’s another reason why I’m not fond of shooting for a viral campaign.

And when you focus on what you can control, the next steps you should take become self-evident.  

You can control the platforms you tap and the content you post there.  So, be sure to establish a baseline of where you are right now with items such as:

how many channels (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) you have

how many blog entries you’ve posted

how many fans and followers in each channel

how many partners you have (either internal champions or external partners)

#2. Take stock of your competition You may be in a head-to-head competition with a hospital in your market, or you may have identified someone you aspire to be like.  Find out how you competition is doing.  Do they have multiple channels?  Do they post regularly?  How many views, fans, followers do they have?  (Notice that these questions are very similar to #1 above.)

The good news is plenty of social media tools can help you monitor these things.  You can either just count fans, views, posts, etc., or you can search for keywords related to your competitor.  (Click here to learn more about keywords.)

There are many free tools like Social Mention and Compete.com. And there are a few commercial tools I recommend checking out: Radian6, Meltwater Buzz, SM2, Sysomos, and Trackur.

What’s Next? After you’ve identified your channels and their followers, here are a couple more questions to ask yourself:

Do those relationships matter? You can measure the depth and stickiness of those relationships with various analytic tools. For example, Google Analytics can help you measure social network traffic. Facebook Insights can help you measure trends from user demographics to content consumption. Twitter Analyzer (and tons of other third-party tools) can help you measure the reach of your tweets. And YouTube Insight can help you measure how engaged viewers are with your videos.

Do these tools/platforms help reach your objective? Finally, it’s way more important to make sure you’re heading in the right direction by measuring the right things. Getting no place fast is no good, and if you’re ONLY measuring speed, you can fool yourself.  

As an example, I was doing web-based work for a major university several years ago and they had been recognized by Yahoo! magazine as one of the nation’s most-wired universities. They wanted to make it a stated goal they be recognized again the following year as a “most-wired” university. Great goal, right? Yeah...until that magazine went out of business! The lesson: list goals that directly tie into your marketing objectives (remember those earlier goals of transactions, market share and care ratio?) -- and measure success accordingly.

I hope this has been a helpful start in measuring success in your social media marketing efforts.

Hospital Connecter is a resource for hospitals and the healthcare community to use social media marketing strategy.