In the old days, one of the potential drawbacks associated with outsourcing was felt to be the fact that it was difficult to really explain to the other person what you wanted them to do. In even older days when you may have had a team of colleagues surrounding you in your office, it was relatively easy to pick through particular problems, explain the intricacies and foibles associated with a particular operation and make sure ...
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Voice over Internet protocol was basically a revolution in the world of communications. In addition to deregulation it began to spell the end of the monopolistic control that certain carriers had on long-distance communication and hastened the development and progression of the Internet in general. Part of a larger system that allows us to share files and send text messages across the Internet, VoIP, essentially means that we can communicate with friends or family, business associates or Read More
Are you one of those people who tend to use their hands to try and explain something? Many of us are guilty of doing this and we might find it difficult to get across what we are trying to express using just the spoken word. It’s great to be able to doodle or sketch to really get across what you’re trying to say, but this can be of course really difficult if you are trying to communicate with an Read More
It’s really quite amazing how many times each day you are asked to enter a password to access a particular solution, software as a service, file, membership site and so on. In fact, if you’re actively involved online each day the chances are you have upwards of 30 or 40 different logins, each of which really should have its own very distinct and hard to guess password. Yet human nature being what it is we all like to take the ...
Read MoreAs sophisticated as the Internet community undoubtedly is, it’s still amazing to see that online file sharing is in its relative infancy. Think about it for a moment. Unless you’re actively involved in using some of the latest solutions and tools to share files with others, you might immediately think of “e-mail” whenever it’s time to forward a particular data file, photos or some other material to somebody else. Yet e-mail is a notoriously inefficient way to send files and ...
Read MoreAny small business owner who is still in something of a transition phase between the old-school way of operating, and the new, more efficient, more communicated path to profits may still rely on off-line e-mail tools. We are so used to having tools like Microsoft Outlook on a local machine and while we may be able to network individual computers in our office environment to keep on top of e-mail communications, problems arise when we are travelling or on the ...
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Technological developments have been fast and furious in the past few years. We are seeing an unrivalled ability to communicate effectively and to collaborate in order to make sure that projects are completed on time and with great efficiency. It’s not too much of an overstatement to say that the world has shrunk before our eyes. Not that many years ago it would be inconceivable to think about actively collaborating with a Virtual Assistant who may be half ...
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The success of any business is almost always based on an element of collaboration. While every small business owner will attest to the fact that they are occasionally called upon to be the ‘head cook and bottle washer’ at the same time, you can only achieve real success if you delegate and rely on people who are competent and skilled at their particular vocation. Whenever a project kicks off it’s important that everybody is on the same page and understands ...
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I’ve just come across a great iPhone app which I thought I would share with you. It has been developed by LinkedIn and is called CardMunch, ‘reinventing the way professionals use business cards’ and it’s free – whoop whoop.
What a great tool to deal with that collection of dusty business cards you just don’t know what to do with.
In a nutshell, download the app, take a photo of the business card and the card is ...
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So you have a Facebook fan page, a Twitter account, LinkedIn and possibly a You Tube Channel for your business. But do you have the latest addition to the social media circuit – a Google+ page for your business? Fear not, for I’ve put together a step by step guide to setting up a page (including some nice screenshots).
So, step 1 – sign in to Google+ using your Gmail ...
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