Advice: Stuck sending emails with big attachments? Get Dropbox and let the magic happen…
It’s happened to the best of us – we try to send an email to a client, colleague, or family member, and we cram in one too many attachments. We press ’send’, and wait for the progress bar of life to tell us that our email is on it’s merry way when – uh oh – it bounces back to us with a gibberish technical message saying, in effect: ‘too big, try again’.
Let me show you an awesome bit of *free* technology that lets you send and recieve files of any size across this Internet – and it all happens as if by magic.
Advice: Crossing the digital divide: 5 steps to filing with style
The ‘digital divide’ is said to delineate ‘Generation X’ from ‘Generation Y’ – those who grew up with personal computers vs those who grew up before them. While the definitions of the range of ages of these two generations differs depending on who you talk to, I would suggest that it’s not so much age-based, but confidence-based.
That said, let me pose a few typical computer filing situations, and show you how to ‘file with style’ in the virtual world, and feel more confident with your own digital information.
Advice: The long lost art of writing plain text emails
Email – love it or hate it, it’s ingrained into our personal and business lives – the communication tool of choice for many small businesses, due to its speed, reach, and universal appeal.
Email has changed the way we write our business communications. Compared to typically quite formal written documents, an email allows us to be [...]
Advice: The Science of Getting Things Done – Part One
If you’re anything like me, your computer is more than just a tool that you use for work – it’s likely that your computer is your virtual ‘filing cabinet’ – full of projects and work in progress, special applications for special purposes, resources and documents for reference when things get tricky, as well as a treasure trove of emails dating back to the last millennium.
We often file things away badly, and often, we don’t file at all. Our productivity in the real world is seen as critical, but our productivity in the virtual world is often way behind. Sound familiar? Read on!
Advice: Carpe Diem, et al: making the most of your opportunities…
Whether you make New Year’s Resolutions or not, January is the perfect time to do a little bit of navel gazing, and take a long hard look at your business – to think about the direction you want to take your business over the next 12 months.
Advice: Cheap but not nasty: open source software
The following list highlights a range of different genres of software and applications, giving some of the leading options of commercial software and/or commercial web site/web application offerings.
Advice: Good Cop/Bad Cop: outsourcing your Accounts Dept.
When you’re running a small business, it’s hard enough job to separate your working life from your personal life – but when you add to that equation the constant task of invoicing and chasing up debtors, it might be time to call in a Bad Cop.
Advice: Top 5 reasons to register a domain name
A lot of you reading this could already guess at least 3 or 4 of the main reasons to register a domain name for your business – but it’s something that a lot of small business and soloists overlook – and in the interests of all, it’s worth a refresh.
So I present to you the Top 5 Reasons To Register A Domain Name For Your Business. Beginning with…