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7 Reasons to Free Your Business from File Cabinets & 5 Tips to Help You Do It

Tips From T. Marie

Moving to an electronic file system, while possibly appearing expensive to begin, will end up saving you a lot of money. Moving to a totally electronic file system isn’t as hard, or as expensive as you may think either. Switch to a fax service that delivers faxes in electronic form to email.

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5 Habits to Help You Handle Rejection Gracefully

Success

Your emails go unanswered , and people who promise to get back to you disappear like Houdini. Objections: They read you a laundry list of what’s wrong: why the competition is better, your product is too expensive and your customer service is lousy. Oh, and I’m going to fax a poem to you. Listen fully before you respond.

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5 Things Every Office Should be Replacing with Online Technology

Tips From T. Marie

Fax Machine- At this point, everyone should be capable of sending attachments via email. for those few technophobes that refuse to be dragged into the 21 st century and insist on faxing you, all you need is Nextiva , up to 500 pages a month for just $4.95. Replace the office!

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13 Ways You Should be Using Your Smartphone for Business

Tips From T. Marie

With more of us enjoying job flexibility today, and with the probability of up to 58% of workers expected to be independent contractors by 2027 , if you’re not using your smartphone for more than texting, calls and email you should be. We all know about texting, calling and emailing from our phones, but are you collaborating from it as well?

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Tax Tip for the Office Professional

The Office Professionals Place

Tax Tip: Complete a Form 2106 – Employee Business Expenses This form is used for expenses NOT reimbursed by your employer that you may have incurred throughout the year. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. Tax season doesn’t have to be a tear jerker.

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The Freedom to Work from Anywhere: Your Virtual Business Tips (Part 4)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Having VAs I can simply fax order forms to.   Here is an example of why: I was just checking my emails before going to bed (I'm on vacation in Georgia, just south of Russia, 12 hours ahead of pacific time) when I saw an interview request from foxbusiness.com journalist. .  For graphics, my favorite is Instaquote.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. By recording payments as we receive them, we can just as easily monitor overdue payments and send email reminders. I sit in my car and check my email. We can also generate reports to track our income. You won't regret it.