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The Top 5 Things That Were Wise Investments for My Home Business

Tips From T. Marie

Why it was a wise choice: Storing my files in the cloud rather than on a physical hard drive or flash drive makes it easy to access them from my desktop, laptop, iPad, and phone. It’s also super easy for me to share files with others. 2 A Business Phone.

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

While you’re certainly capable of answering the telephone, filing and ordering supplies, why waste your time on drudgery that almost anyone could do? If it’s answering the phone, you should have a script. This article was published in February 2015 and has been updated. Some tasks are easy to do but also easy to hand off.

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New job, new culture, new language

Laughing all the Way to Work

Even though they can seem like small things, at the beginning you are trying to do your best to impress and can feel a bit helpless when the phone rings and you realize you don't know how to answer it. Gone fishing Next, I started searching through hardcopy files at my desk and electronic ones on the server.

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Gartner's Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013

Small Business Labs

.   As I mentioned, several of the trends related to mobile and I really like this quote: "Gartner predicts that by 2013 mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide and that by 2015 over 80 percent of the handsets sold in mature markets will be smartphones."

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A Conversation with Joan

Office Dynamics

From the first phone call to register for the conference to picking up my name tag, the entire team carried out the professionalism of Joan. In 2014 I had brain surgery (successful) and in 2015, I had open heart surgery (successful). Daily huddles are to be done in person or via the phone (not text or email).

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