Will My Online Business Be Affected By GDPR

Will my online business be affected by GDPR?

Will my online business be affected by GDPR? As an online business, this is something that we need to have an idea about at least.

What is GDPR?

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European privacy law taking effect on May 25, 2018.

Here is a breakdown of the information that I've gathered to date

Here are a few points from Christina Scalera at Easy Peasy GDPR, webinar “3 Secrets to Beating the GDPR Before It Beats You.”

It could apply to you if

If you sell or market to anyone in the EU or if your best friend happens to visit your website on vacation in the EU.
Bummer right…

four-factors

1. Advertising to the country's customers (specific to them)
2. Advertising in that country's language
3. having internet suffix for that country (ex .fr)
4. accepting currency of that country

What do we need to look at?

Our website terms and conditions and privacy policies.

What we collect and what we will do with this info. (BTW – California has had a law in place regarding privacy policy for a few years)

Having compliant GDPR terms, conditions and privacy policies.

Have you noticed all the new Cookie Permissions Pop-Ups on websites? Letting you know that the site uses cookies?

If you're using plugins, embedded google analytics and/or embedded facebook.

Not sure there is a website out there not using all three of the above.

Where will we have our most significant potential impact?

In our email list

If your able to segment anyone that may be from the EU on your email list they will need to consent to market.
Amy Porterfield had an excellent podcast with Bobby Klinck breaking down the different options for list building consent. Make sure that you can take notes if you're going to listen. It's a good one.

I'm going to end with this

MailChimp has some resources on their website. I'm going to end with one final note from a GDPR_Sept2017.

Do you need to comply with the GDPR?

You should consult with legal and other professional counsel regarding the full scope of your compliance obligations. Generally speaking, however, if you are an organization that is organized in the EU or one that is processing the personal data of EU citizens, the GDPR will apply to you.

Even if all that you are doing is collecting or storing email addresses, if those email addresses belong to EU citizens, the GDPR likely applies to you.

What happens if you do not comply?

Non-compliance with the GDPR can result in enormous financial penalties. Sanctions for
non-compliance can be as high as 20 Million Euros or 4% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher.

Make sure to check your email marketing provider for information on how they are handling the GDPR.

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Little Side Note

This will be a good reason to clean up that email list!

Need A Privacy Policy?

Do you need terms and conditions and a privacy policy for your website? If so, check out The Contract Shop!

They have a number of templates that you can use with your online business!

Psst… this is an affiliate link. (:

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Organizing A Calendar

by Michele | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Organizing A Calendar

Organizing a calendar is one thing I've had done for years! It began when I created my first Google account. Not sure when exactly, but I do know that I'm in double digits for years and it was long before smartphones.

This is the glue that keeps us as a family on track and where we need to be.

When the kids were little, I created calendars for them inside of mine. Helping to keep track of playdates, birthday parties, and doctor appointments. Now that they are older and learning to manage a schedule, glad I've instilled in them the importance of having a calendar system in place.

Individual Calendars

The kids and my husband have individual calendars in addition to the family calendars. Their own calendars have been set up to sync with the family calendar.
If anyone adds to a personal calendar, it will show on everybody's calendars. This ensures we are not double booking.

Adding a calendar is easy peasy

Navigate to settings, under setting in the top portion of the menu it has the option to add a calendar. Select add a new calendar. A window will open for you to give the calendar a name and description.
Once the calendar been created, you can go into calendar setting to share it with family members. You can either give them access to view or edit.
Repeat this process until you have all the calendars that you need.

Business Calendar

This same process can be transitioned into organizing a work calendar as well. A few examples to create:
Social Media
Customers
Billable Time
Non-billable Time
Meetings
You can choose to turn a calendar off and on from view.

Hope this is useful. If you would like me to help with organizing a calendar system, set up a discovery call and we can chat about it.

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Little Side Note

Here is a link to the directions on How to Share Your Calendar.

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Organize Your Inbox Like A Pro

by Michele | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Organize your Inbox like a pro?

Would you like to know the secret to organize our inbox like a pro? Guessing the answer is heck ya!

Aww or should I say Ugh?

This seems to be the overall feeling that my customers have regarding email management. The task that must be done, but feels like it drains the life out of you someday.
With all the revenue generating tasks they could be doing, many customers are spending far too much time working on email.

This is my secret to get through the inbox in record speed

I read through my email twice daily. Once in the morning around 11 and once in the afternoon/evening when I'm planning the adventures for my next day.

Before you begin start a timer for 25 minutes…

For the first 5 minutes, I go through and sort the emails. They will go into the following folders in my inbox *Act Now, *Hopper, *Sort, or a specific customer. Organizing in this manner allows me to quickly and easily get to inbox zero.

*Act Now

I start with Act Now. Anything in this folder that I can be done in a few minutes I will do it now. Anything else will get a reply that I've received the message, and it will be added to the following day's task list. Psst… make this a template for a quick response.
This allows me to run my day and not be driven by email.

*Hopper

This folder is for all the items that I need to keep around, but do not want it taking up room in the inbox. For example, a webinar that you will attend or an email that I will need to reference in the future.