Archive for May, 2009
Attn Small Biz – New Technology’s Coming & Help is On the Way
Attention small business owners! No matter if you’re already overwhelmed trying to keep up with new technology, brace yourself for the next wave. There’s yet more stuff you’re going to have to learn about, adopt and maybe even embrace in the world of technology and social media. There’re new search engines, communications platforms, gadgets and [...]
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Been Working Too Hard? It’s Time to Work at Getting a Life
In the corporate world, they call it “work-life balance.” In the real world, they call it “getting a life.”
For small business owners and entrepreneurs, all too often work is life, and the idea of stepping away or at least sharing the load is a foreign one. That truth may compound for home-based workers. This imbalance [...]
Personal Branding
Type your name into Google and see what happens. If you have multiple forms of informative content about you appearing in the top ten, congratulations, you are pretty well branded. If your results are slim, however, you have some work to do to increase the power of your name. Large corporations understand the power of [...]
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Women Business Owners Can Benefit from Virtual Assistants
Women are often masterful multi-taskers. The ability to juggle multiple tasks at once is especially helpful for small business owners and entrepreneurs, who’re notoriously required to wear many hats to keep career and home life afloat and thriving. A few years back, a study conducted by Small Business TV revealed that nearly 70% of 14,035 [...]
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Hey, Hey—Over Here! Attracting & Keeping Customer Attention
The sandwich guy is still out there.
Even as the Hubble camera snaps photos of outer space and people communicate fluidly from around the globe via electronic communications and doctors are transplanting hands and faces successfully, the sandwich guy stands at a busy intersection in the heart of town during lunch hour most weekdays. He holds [...]
Big Opportunities in a Small World
It’s ironic that something called the “World Wide Web” has actually made the world seem smaller. Technology has catapulted our global connectivity, impacting how we interact with people of far away nations at levels on par with the onset of international air travel from generations past. We’ve never been less bound by borders or localities [...]
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The Workplace of the Future?
Reducing overheads is often the best solution for businesses looking to survive tough economic conditions. One way of doing so is to switch from occupying premises to running a business from a virtual office — an option an increasing number of British companies are taking.
The concept, which offers full office support including reception, telephony and [...]
Leaner is Greener – Virtual Offices are Great Solutions for Eco-Conscious Businesses
“Green” has been big business. Now, it’s just good business.
Over the last several years, as our collective eco-conscious grew so did the market for green products and services. Before the economy took a turn, we saw green alternatives sell extremely well, even if they came at a premium over less-green competitors. Savvy businesses saw ‘green’ [...]
Tired of Answering the Phones? Get a Virtual Receptionist to Help!
As sales begin to pick up in the new year, do you want to be stuck with your phone ringing off the hook, and no formal answering service helping? I know I don’t! I am hiring a virtual receptionist to help catch all of the overflow calls, help me with prospecting, and [...]
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You & What Army? Enlist Virtual Support to Grow Your Business
For entrepreneurs, few things are as exciting—and daunting—as new business opportunities. We’ve got a thread of “adventurer” in us and are lured by the prospect of, well, prospecting. And while we yearn for the chance to earn new clients’ business, we’re often too busy minding the storefront keeping existing clientele happy to do anything about [...]
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