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Essential items for efficient home office

Whether you work independently from your own home office or a (rental) office space, you must maintain your professional image.

It doesn’t matter what kind of products you sell or services you provide, your clients expect you to be able to make and receive phone calls, to make copies, to send and receive e-mail and so on.

In order to do your work efficiently and maintain your proffesional image at the same time there are essential items you must have.

1. Phone

Each office must have a business phone that is separated from a private phone. ISDN (Read more…)

What skills do you need to work independently?

Whether you call it freelancing, working independently or self-employment, the basic question is: do you prefer working independently or as part of a team? If you choose and decide to work independently what skills do you need?

Besides the skills in your specialty, you must have some kind of talent for managing yourself, your clients and your work. When I look at some experienced independents and successful self-employed, I recognize some skills that they all share. These are the skills that I believe you need to have to work independently.

1. Organizational skills

Probably you do not (Read more…)

The best and brightest web hosts

There are more than hundreds of thousands of web hosts available, which allow individuals and organizations to provide their own website accessible via the World Wide Web.

They provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center.

These are the best web hosts that represent some of the best and brightest of the hosting world:

BlueHost

Is well known for their business quality web hosting services and discount website hosting plans that include a variety of features. All the website hosting plans by (Read more…)

Free open source CRM and web-based CRM

Each business knows how important to manage your sales leads using Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

There are so many CRM software systems to choose from but if you own a small business or if you are self-employed, it is an excellent idea to use free open source CRM or web based solutions.

Free CRM software systems allow you to automate your lead list, sales pipeline and even your inventory. These are a list of websites that offer free open source CRM and web-based CRM solutions:

FreeCRM

Is a popular free web-based CRM system that allows you to cover all of (Read more…)

Why should a business website have a blog?

There have been a lot of discussions about whether a business website should or should not have a blog.

Those who believe that a business website should not have a blog often use one simple argument: “I don’t have time to blog” I truely believe that blogging should be considered as one of your social media marketing instruments.

For obvious reasons, social media marketing is a MUST and therefore, you should make time for blogging. These are some other reasons why a business website should have a blog:

1. The new e-mail newsletters

You probably already write your newsletter (Read more…)

Free online invoicing tools

If you have a small (home) business or do freelance work, you’ll have to find a convenient way to send invoices to your clients. Of course, you can keep track of all customer information in a spreadsheet, but you can also use free online invoicing tools.

These are companies that offer free and unlimited online invoicing tools that do not put restrictions on the number of clients you can manage and the number of invoices you can send each month.

Billing Boss

Is a free online invoicing tool that does NOT have a paid commercial upgrade. In fact, Billing (Read more…)