Top Ten Twitter Do’s and Don’t’

Posted by on May 17, 2013 in Blog, Social Media | 6 comments At Coffee Not Included we are huge fans of Twitter, no scrap that, we adore Twitter!  However, as with most things in life there are best practices, rules of the Twitterverse if you will that make the world a much better place for all that reside within. So, with this in mind below are our Top 10 Tips for Twitter Ettiquette – Enjoy!   DON’T: Be a show off You’ve only got 140...
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How Online Business Support Provides That All-Important Oxygen

Posted by on May 15, 2013 in Blog, Virtual Business | 0 comments It’s no secret that we have been embroiled in one of the most difficult business climates in history.  Although we had, prior to that, prided ourselves in our ability to be competitive, technologically astute and ready to take on the business world, we all learned some very swift and harsh lessons. No sector of the business environment was spared and we all found that we had to practice a...
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How A Virtual Assistant Can Help Creative Professionals Online, Using Pinterest.

Posted by on May 13, 2013 in Blog, Social Media | 0 comments Interest in Pinterest has allegedly grown by more than 4000% in the last half year. The site is one of the most popular in social media circles and has great marketing capacity for any small business owner. It’s a simple concept – a virtual pin board as it were, enabling many of us to keep an online scrapbook associated with our interests. Whenever we like a particular image we can...
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How To Share Passwords Over The Internet

Posted by on May 10, 2013 in Blog, Virtual Business | 0 comments It’s really quite amazing how many times each day you are asked to enter a password to access a particular solution, software as a service, file, membership site and so on. In fact, if you’re actively involved online each day the chances are you have upwards of 30 or 40 different logins, each of which really should have its own very distinct and hard to guess password. Yet human...
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How DOES Virtual Bookkeeping ACTUALLY Work?

Posted by on May 8, 2013 in Blog, Finance | 4 comments Very simply and efficiently is the short answer. In all honesty if you can let go of the idea that your bookkeeper HAS to inhabit the same space as you then the clouds will clear and a whole new world will be revealed. So, you have a mountain of receipts, bank statements and similar source documents – how on earth can someone take all the necessary information and create accurate financial...
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Why It’s A Good Idea To Work With Your VA To Create Your Own LinkedIn Group

Posted by on May 6, 2013 in Blog, Social Media | 0 comments When we are building our online presence we know that we need to be as specific as possible when choosing our keywords and our niche. These days it’s not good enough to cast your net as wide as you possibly can, expecting to catch enough fish to make a good living. Within the net you will find plenty of the wrong type of fish and will have to spend time, resources and energy trying to...
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How Minute Dock Tracks Time And Integrates With Xero

Posted by on Apr 19, 2013 in Blog, Finance | 2 comments If you have a service related business, there’s a strong possibility that you are a clock watcher. But, what type of “clock watcher” are you? Are you one of those individuals who are constantly fretting about the amount of time that you seem to be spending on a particular task? Do you have multiple pieces of paper scattered around your desk, in an attempt to estimate the volume...
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How Shoeboxed Enables You To Throw Out Your Shoebox

Posted by on Apr 17, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments Every small business owner knows that there simply isn’t enough time in any given day. We all know that, from time to time, we tend to “wing it” when it comes to administrative backup and don’t always do what we’re supposed to do when it comes to keeping track of records. When we’re out and about, spending money here or there on business purchases, we are often...
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Building Your LinkedIn Network With Your VA

Posted by on Apr 15, 2013 in Blog, Social Media | 0 comments Think outside of the box when considering LinkedIn. Of course we know that it’s a business-to-business based “social” network and we should be aware of just how important it is to have a full and complete profile within. If you don’t spend time, or rather have your virtual assistant help you, then you cannot expect to use LinkedIn to its fullest potential. You need to use...
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Freshbooks Cracks The Invoicing Puzzle

Posted by on Apr 12, 2013 in Blog, Finance | 0 comments Create and Send Your First FreshBooks Invoice from FreshBooks on Vimeo. Many people think that they are only beginning to scratch the surface when it comes to opportunities and solutions made available to us through the advent of cloud computing. Whereas before we had to purchase, download and install, or even take a DVD and insert it into our external drive (remember that?) in order to access...
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Four Reasons Why You Might Not Be Happy In Business

Posted by on Apr 10, 2013 in Blog, Mind Matters | 0 comments How do you actually measure happiness in life? Is it based on material possessions – hopefully not – or is it based on a combination of stability, the spiritual and relationships? We work for a reason, even though it seems to occupy the lion’s share of our life. We are working to provide resources to enable us to enjoy life. This enjoyment may well include helping others, charitable...
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How A VA Can Help You Build A LinkedIn Strategy

Posted by on Apr 8, 2013 in Blog, Social Media | 0 comments Do you have a specific strategy in place when it comes to dealing with LinkedIn? It may be true to say that a lot of small business owners bypass this social platform altogether, but this is increasingly a mistake due to the amount of work that the network itself has put in over recent months. Now it makes a great deal of sense to spend time on building up your LinkedIn profile and company pages,...
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