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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 a daily basis as they go about their business. Many of us crave stability and familiarity and there may be…

Whilst it is true to say that some of the other networking sites and social media outlets may be a little more glamorous, well known and understood, there is every reason why you should consider having a LinkedIn presence for your business, while you also work on other solutions such as Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn…

Have you ever calculated what an hour of time is worth to you? As a small business owner can you put a value on every task that you perform on any given day? It’s surprising to learn that many entrepreneurs and successful business people still do not really understand what their time is worth. In…

Marketing has always been a somewhat time-consuming process. Any small business owner knows that if they don’t engage in any form of marketing, they will likely tread water or may be overcome by their competitors. It’s all very well claiming that you have a sufficient amount of business purely through “word-of-mouth,” but these days you…

WordPress may just be one of the best kept secrets of the entire World Wide Web. Once primarily associated with the creation of blogs, this platform has grown to become an amazingly powerful and feature-rich content management system, which is found at the back end of many of the most prominent sites on the Internet….

Much has been written in recent times about the benefits associated with outsourcing to a virtual assistant, individual or team. If you happen to be the “head cook and bottle washer” then you are not being as efficient as you could be, to put it mildly, if you’re doing everything yourself. All that administrative work…

Why is it that in a world which is absolutely jam-packed with news, information and data that we often struggle to come up with content to place on our blogs these days? It can’t simply be the old excuse that we have writer’s block, but it may be a symptom of a problem that is…

It’s amazing just how many individual tasks you have to deal with as a small business owner if you simply do not delegate. In fact, you can find that more than 50% of your valuable time is taken up by tasks that really should be outsourced to a virtual assistant. Any small business owner should…

In recent years a number of dedicated intermediary sites have sprung up around the Web seeking to connect people who are looking for ad hoc work with outsourcers keen to provide such a service. These sites take advantage of the Internet as a perfect environment for bringing together people in this way and a number…

Slowly but surely the business world is getting accustomed to a new way of delegating. For generations we were used to the idea of hiring people to work for us if we needed a specific job to be completed and would take on the responsibility of training them, as well as looking out for their…