Archive for small business
Mobile Technology & Virtual Solutions – The New Reality for Business
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 [...]
|Have Virtual Services Gone Mainstream?
Virtual services can optimize business performance. Soon the business models of the past will become out dated and virtual services will become the norm. Why wait to catch up with the marketplace. Call Davinci Virtual and learn how using “virtual services” can save you money and improve performance.
|After the C-Suite – Starting a Venture Just for You
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 [...]
The East Side to The Far East: Small World, Big Opportunities for Business Owners
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 [...]
|Attention Small Biz: Stop Doing Everything Solo & Get Help to Duet Better
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 [...]
Hire a Virtual Assistant to Help Your Business Get Real
751 LinkedIn connections.
1,443 Twitter followers.
410 Facebook friends.
Those are my stats as of this morning. Trust me, I know there are countless people whose numbers would make mine sound limp. And trust me again, I know the numbers don’t mean much for anybody if the connections aren’t real.
Collecting followers, fans and friends is an ultimately fruitless [...]
Need to Get Organized? Hire a Virtual Assistant.
“What can I do to get organized?”
For months, my colleague-turned-friend would toss out that hypothetical question in the course of conversation. It often was uttered in an emotionally charged, nearly breathless huff and followed by a verbal barrage of all the ‘To Do’ list items that perpetually plagued this person. Whenever she’d finish, I’d give [...]
Hire a Virtual Assistant to Double Your Efforts, Lighten Your Load
After a very successful promotion, “Bill” was bombarded with a flurry of work. He’d stepped out with the promotion to generate opportunities during a slow season. Though the aim was to simply keep business steady, Bill experienced a spike that he wasn’t staffed or prepared for. Oh, the irony of success… There were so many [...]
|Small Business Owners, Get Your Heads in the Clouds!
For nine years, I’ve worked from a home office using web-based email. That means that, for nine years, I’ve been able to conduct business quite seamlessly even when traveling, as long as I have an Internet connection and needed files with me on a key drive. (As a matter of fact, there was a healthy [...]
|Addressing the Need for a Physical Address for a Home-based Biz
She was excited about starting her home-based business but struggled with putting her address on her business card.
In her line of work, the physical address would be of consistent importance, as she’d need to receive hard copies of correspondence and items from clients. She couldn’t use a P.O. box; that simply wouldn’t work for various [...]
