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DIY or GSI?

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:00:30 +0000

Do you have a job that needs to be done and think to yourself, I can do this, I’m not paying someone to do that when I can do this! This is my thought process anyway. Sometimes it’s because I just think that I can do it quicker, it may be because I haven’t put [...]

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Shining My Son’s Shoes

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:03:51 +0000

Whilst I was in the kitchen today shining my son’s shoes I started thinking about what a good manager he would be. He is more than capable of polishing his own shoes, however at only 6 years old he understands the power of delegation. He knows full well I can’t cope with the idea of [...]

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Dropbox It…. Like it’s Hot

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:08:34 +0000

For all my non-hip hop fans, the blog post title was inspired by this song… If you don’t care for hip-hop, scroll down, there is useful info there. The term Drop it like it’s hot can only be explained like this. Have you ever held something that was so hot, you had to drop it [...]

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Manage Your People and Projects Worldwide

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:22:47 +0000

Picture the scene. You need to organise the launch of your new website. You have a web designer in New York, social media marketer in London, a graphic designer in Paris and your SEO expert Chicago. How do you manage all those people and get your site launched on time. Simple answer. Use an online [...]

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Happy New Year and Hello 2013

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:08:34 +0000

Happy New Year to you! This is a quick post to summarise what I plan to share with you in the coming weeks. 2012 was an ok year and it’s up to us to make 2013 even better. Let’s make it a good one by getting ourselves organised. We all start the new year with [...]

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Throw out the Shoebox and Fire Your Bookkeeper

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:14:00 +0000

Today’s post is a three-in-one! Money saving, time saving and decluttering, your Bookkeeper will not like me but your pocket will. When it comes to your receipts and expenses we tend to “wing it” and don’t keep up with our books. When we’re out and about, spending money here and there on business purchases it’s [...]

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Efficiency. Mary Poppins Style

admin — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:21:49 +0000

I’ve been dying to get Mary Poppins in one of my blog posts and this is the ideal opportunity. We would all love to click our fingers and “for every task you undertake to become a piece of cake”. We all want to be more efficient but don’t know how, this inefficiency is not [...]

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Banish the Micro-manager

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:35:10 +0000

Some small-business owners seem to be wary about hiring virtual assistants of any kind as they feel as if they’re not in control. They do not know what the virtual assistant is doing as they cannot see them and they are simply not sure if they are working to their best ability, or not. This [...]

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Why There Is No Need For The Personal Assistant To Be In-House

admin — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:31:44 +0000

Times may have changed but some business owners haven’t embraced that change, although they will tell you that they have. It is apparent that when it comes to a personal assistant some small business owners feel the need to engage a real life person in their offices, someone who they can shake hands with on [...]

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Where is the Cloud (Computing) Taking Us

admin — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:34:48 +0000

According to one of the top analysts in the business, Gartner, cloud computing will become one of the top 10 strategic technologies going forward. There will be an expansion from the current scenario, where there’s a range of developing public systems alongside closed private platforms. Gartner also predicts that there will be a considerable expansion [...]

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