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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

It’s this distribution of talent across geography, lifestyles and interests that makes up the virtual assistant model’s “secret sauce” and helps companies increase profit margins and productivity while boosting enthusiasm and satisfaction for employees. There are so many moving parts: the finances, the sales, the marketing, the billing.

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Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business

The Small Business Blog

Use a specific business calendar to keep a reminder of your schedule. Use WinWeb ’s Online Calendar and Online Document Store to cut down on physical waste. Don’t purchase containers to store more documents and files – throw away as much of your old stuff as possible instead. Be ruthless with your filing.

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Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Also, when you come across papers that are date driven, make sure to add an entry to your calendar/planner to remind you to do things.  The categories include:  Personal, Financial, Taxes/Insurance, and Lifestyle.  Here is a great article On CBS about Getting Your Finances in Order in 5 Days.

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TheMarq: Motorola CLIQ Review – Part 4

The Marq

In other words, I wanted to be able to access my email, calendar, tasks, and notes from anywhere. The Tasks in Google Calendar is measly and doesn’t have the ability to set priorities, recurring tasks, and, most importantly, synch with my phone. Google Apps did everything except Tasks. Problem solved. Think again.

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10 minute power meeting technique. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Look at you calendar and write next to each meeting how long it should take and stick too it. Large corporations have often the shortest meetings at director level, while lower down in the organisation the meetings go on and on, too. Don’t waste your valuable 9 to 5 business time like that. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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How To Make This Recession Work For Your Small Home Business.

The Small Business Blog

To orchestrate this approach, you have to have a carefully monitored calendar to get your timings right. One false move can completely destroy your business — imagine if you get sued, or you lose a crucial supplier. You can also get on the wrong side of suppliers, meaning higher rates and less helpful service.

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Work-Life Balance 2.0 and Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

The good news is that hosted network technology allows for complete flexibility in working, by giving organisations and their staff full and instant access to all their company data, email, calendar and contacts from any computer in the world, without the need for Virtual Private Networks to be set up. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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