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.
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.
It’s nearly impossible to “do everything right” when you’re doing “everything.” Even if you’re ambitious, resourceful, tireless and clever, you are a mortal with limitations, strengths and weaknesses. You simply can’t be best at everything, not to mention you’ll never have enough time to do everything on your own.
Small business people are often big thinkers with plenty of drive and motivation yet not a lot of capital, staffing or support. Their broad vision and intense drive sometimes supersedes the reality of logistics and the fact that there must be some money to spend in order to make more. Inspiration and operations must coalesce for small businesses to establish roots and grow.
In-boxes (especially those wood ones actually labeled “IN”). Fake ficus trees in office lobbies. Snail mail. Normal business hours. First generation Palm Pilots. Fax machines.
This is a list of things on their way to the Museum of How We Used to Do Business. As times change and technology evolves, these items will join dictation machines, rotary phones, gargantuan computers the size of boats, typewriters and carbon paper in the hall of relics from business eras gone by. I’m sure there are more than a few of you out there hoping that modular cubicle walls also go the way of extinction in the not so distant future.
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