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Raising the Bar with Ratings & Reviews
When you are browsing Amazon for Christmas gifts or planning a vacation and looking at hotels and restaurants, what’s the first thing you look at? The reviews, of course! Ratings and reviews dramatically improve the likelihood that you’ll be satisfied with your new...
How to Crush Expedites with Confidence in 4 Steps
Years ago, as a new court reporter, nothing raised my blood pressure more than a surprise expedite. I’ll never forget my first BIG, scary job — a heated doctor deposition. Not only was the medical jargon flying faster than 225 words per minute, but the participants...
Lesson 7: How to Beat Procrastination… For Good!
Picture this: It’s mid-morning and you sit down at your desk with a big, hot cup of coffee. The sun is shining through your office window. You boot up your computer, ready to knock out your first task: Scope yesterday’s transcript. But instead of opening up your case...
Time Management Lesson 6: The Art of Delegation
Court reporters are like unicorns. Powerful. Magical. Rare. Your skills are in high demand and short supply. You graduated from a rigorous training program. You’re constantly building your dictionary and improving your skills. You basically keep the entire US legal...
Time Management Lesson 5: Getting Organized — and Staying That Way!
Clutter can be all-consuming. And not just the physical clutter that takes up space in our homes and offices. Digital and mental clutter can be even more distracting. We waste countless amounts of time and energy navigating around clutter. The solution? Getting...
Lesson 4: Protect Your Time by Setting Boundaries
Barbara Corcoran — the famous real estate investor and ‘Shark’ on ABC’s Shark Tank — has learned hard-fought lessons about time management. “Years ago, I gave my time away to just about anyone,” she said in an interview with Entrepreneur Magazine. “But by making...
Lesson 3: Scheduling & Planning for Court Reporters
Welcome to Lesson 3 of Time Management for Transcript Pros! Who knew a simple calendar trick could change your life? Get More Done with Time Blocking. “Either you control your calendar, or it controls you.” In the last two lessons, we learned how to set SMART...
Lesson 2: How to Prioritize Like Oprah and Eisenhower
Welcome to Lesson 2: Prioritization for Transcript Professionals! Today, we'll learn how to use a simple tool that keeps us focused on our most important tasks: The Eisenhower Matrix What do you, Oprah Winfrey, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower have in...
Time Management Lesson 1: Setting (and Crushing) Goals
Welcome to Stenovate's Master eCourse on Time Management for Transcript Professionals! In this first lesson, we'll lay the foundation for successful time management: Setting Goals Nothing feels better than CRUSHING your goals. But sometimes we get...
Transcript Management 101: How to maximize your productivity and grow your legal transcript business.
As the demand for court reporting surges, many reporters are being asked to take on more work than ever. Now is a great chance to grow your legal transcript business, but you may be feeling maxed out with your current workload. If you’d like to produce more...
3 Productivity Tips to Grow Your Transcript Business
Ever have those days where you feel more like a firefighter than a transcript professional? Running around from crisis to crisis, you put out fires while new ones ignite. You're working more, earning less, burning out, and spending less time doing things you love....
Court Reporting: The Sexiest Underrated Job in America
We’ve all heard about the court reporting shortage. Youngins aren’t rushing off to court reporting school like they used to. But why? The debate rages on, but at the end of the day, it boils down to a simple fact: People don’t think court reporting is sexy. It’s time...
New Stenovate Features Alert! Introducing Job Boards and Social Feeds
Ready to get more done and have more fun? Stenovate has just released two, brand-new features: Scoping and Proofing Job Boards Social Feeds These features are now LIVE for all Stenovate users Be the first to try them out. Scopist and Proofreader Job Boards Need help...
5 Steps to Prepare for the Post-Coronavirus Surge in Court Reporter Demand
Uncertainty is often harder to handle than outright bad news. That's the challenge shadowing the court reporting industry uncertainty about the future of our livelihoods as court reporters, scopists, and proofreaders. With court and depo proceedings at a...
An Important Message About Stenovate’s Launch
To say, "We live in interesting times," is a massive understatement. For reasons I am about to share, we must temporarily postpone Stenovate's public beta launch. It breaks my heart to deliver this news. You have been part of the Stenovate journey from the beginning,...
NEW! Progress
After reviewing the brand new Transcript Dashboard, you know that you have access to a complete picture of your workload and progress at a single glance. (Yaaaay!) Diving a little deeper, every transcript has a "Workspace" with great tools for you and your teammates....
NEW! Transcript Dashboard
You need a transcript dashboard. Let us explain. We know you have your own system for organizing your transcript-based business, but here’s the thing: You’re working too hard to keep it all straight, and it’s slowing you down! Believe us when we say we have no doubt...
NEW! Files
We’re just going to come out and say it. For transcript professionals, Stenovate kicks Dropbox’s boo-tay in storing files for several reasons. Yes, you heard me. I said we’re better than Dropbox (and just as secure) because Stenovate is specifically built for...
NEW! Network
Find Yourself a Dream Team…without Facebook! Some reporters have found their dream team of scopists and proofreaders, and others are still searching for their wordy and witty matches made in heaven. There’s a reason why the most popular Facebook groups for transcript...
How a Community of Hardworking Women Inspired Me to Build Stenovate
Dear Transcript Community, Every court reporter, scopist, and proofreader has been there: That moment when deadlines pile up, clients are fussy, and time is vanishing into thin air. As they say: When it rains, it pours. As a freelance court reporter, I've...
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