Some markets are moving quickly to optimize expenses while increasing revenue even in a down economy.
Regardless of your business the movers and shakers are those who’ve figured out how to provide less expensive service to corporations are the ones flourishing now.
We are becoming more mobile than ever before, thanks to technology that lets us interact personally and professionally in diverse, fluid ways. While there are ample reports to confirm this truth, one needs only look around while out and about to know it’s accurate. Everywhere, people are texting, taking photos and forwarding, checking email and even, well, talking using their multi-functional phones–Blackberries, iPhones and the like. Now, even netbooks and slimline laptops also make it easier to make great use of mobile broadband, enabling users to be fully functional while on the go.
Parks Associates, a Texas-based research firm specializing in”digital living technologies,” was widely quoted earlier this year as it announced that mobile broadband users will top 140 million by 2013. Likewise, a 2008 report from comScore, Inc. reported that Americans accessing the Internet via mobile broadband lept by 154% in 2007. The comScore report noted that 59% of users were using the technology for work purposes, versus 41% for personal use. Suffice to say, this versatile capability is increasingly impacting our everyday lives in more integrated ways. Read the rest of this entry »
The Wall Street Journal quotes best selling author Paul Edwards as saying, “Virtual assistants provide services ranging from administrative support to consulting via e-mail, fax and phone.”
The article continues recommending several books for getting started, including Virtual Assistant – The Series by Diana Ennen and Kelly Poelker.
Sometimes the words “start-up,” “entrepreneur” and “small business” can conjure images of fledgling dreamers setting up shop in their apartments, struggling to pay student loans while launching their big ideas.
Of course, the reality is much broader and deeper than that image. Today’s entrepreneurs come in all ages, shapes and stages of experience. Many who are starting up new ventures are winding down other successful careers, drawing upon their C-Suites knowledge to try different enterprises.
These days we marvel about how technology has torn down barriers to global business. Of course, the first hints of a global economy hearken back to early exploration accomplished by adventurous, curious (and often opportunistic) souls traversing worldly waters by ship. Many moons later, we figured out things like international air travel, telephone communications and so on. Then that aforementioned technology started really kicking in—computers, the Internet, mobile devices, and the game altered dramatically.
Thanks to all that progress and innovation, we now work in business world ready for global interconnectivity. In person or online, we can ‘be there’ at any time, at any point, anywhere.
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