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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

For the past decade, BELAY has been witnessing this phenomenon firsthand through its network of contractors who supply virtual support as assistants, bookkeepers, web maintenance professionals and social media strategists. Those subconscious signals evaporate in an online-only collaboration.

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Sound and vision – Nigel Oseland makes himself heard for the IN magazine profile

Workplace Insight

My suggestions on social media based on this love fall on deaf ears. It’s back to the cubicle except it’s a Perspex box rather than a partitioned box. “So, They want to collaborate. But there are still vestiges of the tactical response. I think the staff liked it. Because that’s how they want to work.

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Should You Hang Up When a Recruiter Calls?

On The Job

Check out this story I did for Gannett/USAToday.com: You're sitting in your cubicle one day considering the dozens of emails that await your attention when your phone rings.On Use social media to get the buzz about an employer. Are workers talking with one another, meeting in groups to collaborate? Look around.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

Success

Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. It has every possible feature for project management, and other products from 37signals’ Suite [web-based apps for collaboration, sharing information and making decisions].

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

Grow Your E-Commerce Business Create systems Automate everything Learn to delegate Collaborate Always Be Monitoring Step 7. If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. Enjoy Life. Why E-Commerce?

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You Will Survive: 8 Strategies to Overcome New Entrepreneur Anxiety

Success

Breathe and know that there’s no need to retreat back to cubicle-land. Are you trying to build the app and website, grow seven social media accounts, host webinars, talk to customers, sell, and secure venture capital all at the same time while also juggling a personal life? It feels awful, but it’s perfectly survivable.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

Success

But every time I collaborate with one of these rare human beings, I evolve. If you’re sitting in a cubicle or your basement home office with the kids screaming upstairs, I imagine that being your own boss sounds delicious. My life improves, even if I see it only after five years of hindsight. Can I change my answer? Yesterday.

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