It's never too early to consider the options available for funding retirement whether you're a part-time blogger, a work-at-home-mom, or a small business owner. Financial Priorities and Economic Realities Whether you are a professional in industry, small business owner, part-time blogger, or stay-at-home mom, priorities and goals are apt to change over time. How we manage our finances and how we spend our hard-earned dollars tends to shift in line with those goals and priorities. At … [Read more...]
Do Bloggers Need A Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
I asked Vernessa Taylor to share with us how a CDN (content delivery network) would benefit bloggers. I suspect some of us really need one, but am unclear on what is involved or when we should start using one. Here is what Vernessa has discovered so far: Content Delivery Network: Faster Than A Speeding Plane . . . If you're like me you may have heard the phrase content delivery network (CDN) bandied about more and more over the last couple of years. The first 50 times I came across it, … [Read more...]
Virtual Assistants: Step Up Your Game
Properly Trained Virtual Assistants - also known as Administrative Consultants - Can Be Powerful Small Business Resources Guest Post by Vernessa Taylor Virtual Assistant vs. Administrative Consultant It is virtually impossible to provide small business customers the level of service they expect if you lack professionalism, an appropriate skillset, and real-world practice doing things the right way. It doesn't matter your nationality, ethnicity, or socio-economic background. All that matters … [Read more...]
Your Newsletter Tastes Like Spam
This is a guest post from Small Business Advisor Vernessa Taylor, better known as @CoachNotesBlog on Twitter. Vernessa is the person I rely on for Linux remote technical support. (She does Windows, VOIP, and much more, too.) Wouldn't You Prefer The Sweet After-Taste of Spanakopita? Checking one of my overflowing email in-boxes, I encountered two email messages that led to this article. Neither one was marked as spam but both were from names I didn't immediately recognize. Not recognizing the … [Read more...]