Time is money the old phrase goes, but actually it’s more valuable than that. Regardless of how organised you are you’ll only ever have 24 hours in the day. You can’t ‘make’ more time, you can only make the most of what you’ve got. Try our five simple tips to maximise your day:
1. Start off [...]
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Get The Most out of The Working Day
March 29, 2010 – 1:28 am
Live in Portugal, Work in London – the extremes of remote working…
March 23, 2010 – 11:34 pm
We’re big fans of remote working. So when our IT guru, Ben Taylor, decided to head off to live in Portugal and keep his IT support business, Responsive Computing, running in London – we were interested to see how it panned out. Ben’s been in Portugal for 6 months now, we caught up with him [...]
Customer Service Done Right
November 2, 2009 – 9:03 pm
I recently experienced excellent customer service and it amazed me. It’s a sad reflection of today’s wired world that we are all so accustomed to automated responses and shoddy customer service that when we do get served right, it is a unique experience.
This particular experience was unique from beginning to end. I started off only [...]
Handy Little Tool for Virtual Working
November 1, 2009 – 9:21 pm
I’m a big user of Skype, despite it’s many detractors I find it’s pretty good for the majority of my outgoing calls and I love the IM facility on it as well. So I’m always delighted to find nice little extras to go with it. Recently, I’ve needed to record a couple of phone calls [...]
A Few Free Things for Virtual Working…
September 18, 2008 – 11:15 pm
If you’re looking to cut a few costs in your small business, why not take a look at some of the great free tools available online:
Google calendar: If you’re after a great, free online calendar Google really is pretty impressive. Things we like about it are that we can colour code different events and entries [...]
Choosing a Virtual Assistant
June 3, 2008 – 9:46 pm
Many of the enquiries I get via my website are from people who are considering using a virtual PA for the first time, which is great. I really do believe that virtual assistants are an excellent resource for forward thinking small businesses, but it is worth putting in some thought to finding a virtual PA [...]
A Slap on the Wrist from the Job Centre
May 30, 2008 – 5:12 pm
We are often asked to help our clients recruit admin staff, we’ve had plenty of experience at it ourselves and we understand support roles from both sides of the fence.
On this occasion our client suggested we try the Job Centre website, so we logged on and posted our job ad. It’s a pretty good [...]
Flexible working
May 27, 2008 – 9:46 pm
I was amazed to read this weekend that according to recent research carried out by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, two thirds of employers never, or only occasionally agree to requests from employees who want to work from home. Now obviously, there are some roles that really can’t be done remotely – but [...]
Virtual working
May 23, 2008 – 1:25 pm
Much is written about the global scope of virtual working – how you can run your business from a bedroom in Surbiton, have a marketing assistant in Idaho, a web designer in Auckland and a telemarketer in Edinburgh. So when one of the virtual assistants in our team decided to head back to Australia – [...]
Are Chambers of Commerce relevant to online business?
May 16, 2008 – 12:57 pm
When I first started my business and was reading all the advice doled out on the net, one of the first things I did was to join my local chamber of commerce. The received wisdom on forums, etc. seemed to be that it would help me make good business contacts in the local community [...]
