At One Hour PA we work almost entirely virtually so we rarely have to deal with the dreaded commute but the other day I happened to be on a packed tube in rush hour with hundreds of people in stupidly high temperatures. It made me think yet again about the benefits of virtual working. Having [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Cheap websites…bargain or a false economy?
July 29, 2008 – 11:07 am
Credit crunch or not, most small business owners don’t have money to throw around. Keeping a careful eye on your cashflow and what you are spending is absolutely imperative, but I do wonder if sometimes people cut corners at the expense of their business success. I started thinking about this recently when I was looking [...]
More on the joys of Skype…
July 27, 2008 – 10:48 pm
Continuing my experiments with Skype, I’ve gone from buying the odd bit of credit now and again to actually signing up for a £6.95 per month subscription package. So far it seems pretty good. It covers all my calls to landlines in 34 countries – including the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand which are [...]
Email…the biggest time waster…
July 22, 2008 – 11:10 pm
I have just unsubscribed to an email update that I have been receiving every single working day for the last year…and have read maybe three times. It’s not that it’s not interesting, it is. I signed up for it, so I wanted the information they were sending me. But I just got so sick of [...]
Social Networking Sites…is there any point for business owners?
July 20, 2008 – 10:24 pm
I was interested to read this weekend about a survey that shows over 60% of online adults visited one of the most popular social networking sites during January of this year, apparently a 21% increase on the figure for the previous year. The conclusions they draw from this are that as social networking sites are [...]
Getting Started with a Virtual Assistant
July 8, 2008 – 11:19 pm
I was talking to someone recently who was telling me how he finds it hard to delegate but is incredibly overworked. It certainly rang a bell with me because many of the potential clients who come to us are just at the stage of needing help with their business but find it really difficult to [...]
