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Stay on Track for Productivity

Success

workers have packed up their cubicles and headed home to do just that. More time-wasters: social media and web-surfing. When you’re stuck and can’t spontaneously brainstorm with a cubicle mate, conventional wisdom tells us to walk away from the problem. Sidestep time traps. 45 minutes vanish.

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

Success

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. All you have to do is upload pictures (find free stock photos at unsplash.com or pexels.com) or video, type out some copy, set your prices, and… launch.

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

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But around 2006, when he was starting his short-video production company, Sizzle It!, Cliff Michaels, the former president of EO Los Angeles, recommends HootSuite as a simple one-click to push messages on Facebook, Twitter and other social media. So, he paid $300 a year to borrow one from ManhattanVirtualOffice.com.

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The Solopreneur Handicap That Makes You Suck at Productivity

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Kicking off a day filled with social media buzzwords. We’ve been so busy telling people to Escape Cubicle Nation , retire to 4 Hour Work Weeks and become Non-Conformists … that we’ve overlooked a few advantages of old-school big business entrepreneurs. Talk extensively about “shipping art”. Ah, freedom!

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The Art of Problem-Solving: 4 Creative Strategies to Tackle Your Biggest Obstacles

Success

You believe that creating on-demand virtual training courses will be popular, but you fear that hiring a video editor and web designer will eat up profits. The scenario : You are employed full time at the bank and also have a side hustle: an e-commerce store that sells retro video game systems. Black hat : Danger, Will Robinson.

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Is blogging worth it? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

I started a thread on LinkedIn last week asking, What is the best answer to the question How do you measure ROI from social media? I was quite surprised to get back a slightly patronising answer that explained I needed to understand that social media was social. As a consumer, that bothers me.

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