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Day August 16, 2007

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business

Aug 16, ’07 8:44 PM

The only other option is employing staff full time into your business.Virtual Assistants will enable you to outsource - what I call non core business processes, like bookkeeping, call handling, typing, etc. - to a professional person, well equipped to perform these tasks for you in a cost-effective manner and I do not mean cheap, I mean cost-effective.... If times are harder for your business and you need save cost it is often easier and faster to terminate a virtual assistant - but remember to explain your decision, so that when your small business is doing better again you can start working with your virtual assistant again.Employing people full time should only be considered for "essential, ongoing and full-time" work, this way you can provide a more secure workplace for your employee and look forward to a peaceful and unstressed work environment.Building a support network community for your small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses is essential to your survival.

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Skype Down, WinWeb Slow – the price of mash-up.

Aug 16, ’07 12:40 PM

But this demonstrates the inherent danger of mash-up in the online software industry (SaaS, Web 2.0). You not only mash-up functionality, but possibly also the problems.Something to consider, when you consider the pro and cons of mash-ups.

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Skype having problems?

Aug 16, ’07 10:27 AM

My Skype has been logging me in and out all morning and it is showing "only" 3.3Mio users online - where have all the other 5 to 6Mio users gone?And even when I'm online I only see a fraction of my contacts even-so they are online. Hope these guys let us know soon what is going on?

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Small Business Owners Too Busy To Take a Holiday

Aug 16, ’07 9:31 AM

I reported earlier today on employees not taking enough vacations it stand to reason that this would be true for the employers too and I found this research.A million small business owners are going to be working through the summer without a break. Nationwide 14% workers will skip taking a vacation but when it comes to small businesses the percentage goes up to 31%.This number amounts to a third of small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses who will not take a summer break says the Alliance and Leicester Business Banking survey.

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Online Accounting for Small business and Start-Ups

Aug 16, ’07 9:25 AM

Also it simplifies things for entrepreneurs as they donít have to spend so much of time saving and updating their accounting books.Specialized accounting and cash flow solutions for small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, allow the employers and employees time to focus on core productive activities rather than spend it maintaining accounts and on financial management.... "The fact that data is offsite, safe and secure is one of the main benefits of managing your accounts online, but it also means that you can work from anywhere or at any time," commented Michael Turner, general manager Tallia on the advantage of online accounting for small firms.

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Australian Small Businesses Burdened by Red Tape

Aug 16, ’07 9:10 AM

56% small businesses reported GST (daily transactions) amongst the tops 3 areas of red tape that most disturbed them and 31% said Occupational Health & Safety had them worried.... It is important for small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, to find ways to reduce spending time on peripheral activities such as financial management and entrepreneurs should consider investing in business infrastructure.

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Inequality Between Sexes In small business still ragging

Aug 16, ’07 9:06 AM

A recent paper on angel funding in the Journal of Business Venturing, by business school professors, Jeffrey Sohl, of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire and John Becker-Blease, of Washington State University studied how women were able to get angel funding.While the research showed that women received lesser angel funding, it was simply because fewer number of women applied for private-equity funding.... This in turn should result in lower interest rates - as banks lead us to belief they are assessing the risk involved in borrowing - and not just help themselves to our money?Comparing service and interest rates of banks must be high on the priority lists of every small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses.

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U.S. Employees Not Taking Enough Vacation

Aug 16, ’07 8:46 AM

Going by this philosophy it is crucial for the success of any small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, that its employees get adequate time off from work.... A stark contrast to the 30 days mandatory leave in Austria, Finland and France and the 20 day government mandated vacation provide in countries such as U.K, Australia and Brazil."The U.S. doesn't have any kind of federal law that requires employers to offer any vacation at all," says Carol Sladek, a senior work-life consultant for Hewitt.

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Risky Climate for Small Business and Start-Ups ahead

Aug 16, ’07 8:40 AM

While this is a statement for the UK, I'm almost certain my readers in other parts of the world could be affected as well.Until now small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses, have not been very affected by the changes in interest rates in the country.... "The cumulative adverse effects of five interest rate increases since August 2006 are set to worsen over the next year, as the pressures facing consumers and businesses intensify," commented the economic adviser to the BCC, David Kern.

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