Accountingweb.com has an interesting article on the rise of “telework”. With the rise in gas prices and many other factors, the number of employees in the United States working remotely rose frome 12.4 million in 2006 to 17.2 million in 2008. While these aren’t all full-time teleworkers, they do all work remotely at least 1 [...]

I have a theory about Americans. From the day we are born we are taught to compete:
We are taught to do more than our parents. We are pushed to be the best at sports, academics, or music (or all of the above). We are even taught to strive for more than our siblings.
So it should [...]

“Friend me!”
“Bkkper02 would like to add you to their network.”
“CrazySocialGrl101 was sent you a friend request.”
Do these sound familiar? With the rise of online social networks, the term “Networking” has become nebulous. The time of building your business network through hardwork and lots of hand shaking is a thing of the past…. Or is it?
Susan [...]

For those of us in the Virtual Assistant industry, working remotely has become simply a fact of life. But how can other companies learn from our example? There are a few key areas where larger companies get the basics wrong:
1.) They are in too big of a hurry.2.) They spend too much on technology.3.) Managers [...]

If you are like me, the first thing you do in the morning is sit down at the computer and check out the news, or your RSS feeds, or hit the Stumble Button a few times. Do you really want to wait 2 or 3 minutes while your computer starts up? If you are still [...]

Thanks to Nina Feldman for showing this to me. This is awesome. I should make all new prospects watch it
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My dirty little secret is that I am not actually perfect. I make mistakes, I screw up. More than once in the past six years, I have had to email or call a client and tell them the problem and present them with a solution (and that last part is important, if I have a [...]

I just read an interesting article over at Inc.com. We’ve all heard reasons why businesses fail: poor economy, too much competition, the secretary was faxing out bids on the shredder. You know, all those “read reasons” that businesses fail.
But Jessica Livingston at Y Combinator has a different take on the reason start-ups fail,”They all fail [...]

Are you new to online networking and thinking of getting started on Facebook? Already using Facebook but want to make sure you are “doing it right”? Sally Kuhlman over at Virtual Simplicity has posted some great tips on getting started on Facebook.
Sally covers some of the important basics: Should you really throw that sheep? When [...]

Kelly over at Taxgirl.com recently answered a pretty common question:
“I want to ask if scans of receipts are acceptable as proof for the IRS. I’ve got receipts that are only one year old and they are already unable to be read due to fading. If we are somehow able to scan the receipt and save [...]