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Top 5 Online Invoicing Apps Freelancers Enjoy

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
Top 5 Online Invoicing Apps Freelancers Enjoy

Online apps offer some excellent tools for a variety of tasks from money management to email. Freelancers can really benefit from online invoicing and there are tons of choices for you. Let’s look at a few of those apps. 1) Apptivo Invoicing – Free Apptivo is by far one of the best online invoicing packages in the market. Apptivo’s invoicing is designed to help small business and freelancers invoice their clients for free. Most freelancers are working with clients from around the world and therefore need the capability to send invoices in a number of currencies. Apptivo allows you to … Read more

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When Entering a New Market Knowledge is Power

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
When Entering a New Market Knowledge is Power

There’s an old saying “knowledge is power” and when it comes to your business, entering a new market is exactly that. If you are thinking about expanding into a new market, there are often a lot of unknowns. It’s a bit like stumbling through a dark alley with no lights. If you don’t know where you’re going you can run into serious troubles. When entering a new market you need to do your market research to learn: Who will buy the product? How big is your potential customer base? What are the product features the customer is looking for? What’s … Read more

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Carving Out Your Own Niche as a Virtual Assistant

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
Carving Out Your Own Niche as a Virtual Assistant

If you are like so many entrepreneurs, in the beginning you took almost every job that came along. But sooner or later you’ll have to make a decision about what type of online business you want to run. If you have already developed a fine reputation for customer service and excellent quality of work, then the decision to fine tune your services will be that much easier. If you’ve already been doing the A to Z’s of running an office why not carve out your own niche as a virtual assistant. Virtual assistants must be smart, organized, be able to … Read more

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Best Invoice Practices Freelancers Use to Get Paid

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
Best Invoice Practices Freelancers Use to Get Paid

As a freelancer what’s most important is that you get paid for the work you do. The occasional client might be alright with paying you when the project is done without an invoice, but for most the invoice is required. If you don’t send the invoice you won’t see your money. So invoicing isn’t something you do when you get time. It’s something you do immediately after finishing a project. Standardized Invoices Take the time to standardize your invoices. This will not only streamline the invoicing process it will make it much easier for clients too. There are many excellent … Read more

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Why launching a product in the downturn makes sense?

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
Why launching a product in the downturn makes sense?

In times of economic downturn, many people pull back within their business in fear of what could happen. It is a good idea to be more frugal and to cut costs where it is necessary and possible to do so. However, there are many opportunities a downturn can offer to your business. One of them is the space to launch a new product. In many ways, such a move can actually help to propel your company farther as the economy begins to strengthen. New Businesses Have It Easier In many ways, a small business has a better opportunity to launch … Read more

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Work Smarter With Your Online Business

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
Work Smarter With Your Online Business

The online business community is the fastest growing market in the entire world. The number of websites out there is more than 70 million and every day more are created. Never in our history has it been so easy for an entrepreneur to open a business and make money. Many of us have been raised in an environment where small business owners work day and night to keep their business afloat. Competing with big companies was simply not possible. Those first couple of years were tough for an entrepreneur and there certainly wasn’t any expectation of taking home a paycheck. … Read more

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Your Relationship With Your Foreign Business Partners

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
Your Relationship With Your Foreign Business Partners

Part of operating any business is the partnerships we forge. As a business owner, you continuously embrace new business partners and the global opportunities they represent. It’s very important that you are able to diminish any operational threats these relationships might cause. As your company develops its risk management strategies include knowing what your business must examine before ever entering into a contract with a foreign partner. There are a number of critical components to consider when selecting a foreign business partner whether that partner is a distributor, joint venture partner, reseller, or agent. Due diligence is always essential and … Read more

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How to point your domain to wordpress site?

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
How to point your domain to wordpress site?

WordPress Custom Domain Mapping User launches WordPress blog from Apptivo User clicks on Domain Mapping User selects External Domain, and enter domain name and prefix as 2 field values Domain Name: domainname.com Sub domain to map with this WordPress: www (default value). User can key in valid sub domain names here ex: mysite.domainname.com. On successful verification, custom domain name for this blog is mysite.domainname.com If the domain is not verified already.  User will be shown a TXT record value to be added in their Domain to verify ownership Record Type : TXT Record Name: @ or blank ( default to … Read more

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How to Let Your Market Dictate Your Product Price

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
How to Let Your Market Dictate Your Product Price

If a Business has to be profitable the sale price of its goods or services needs to be more than the cost price. A price that’s too high will lead to reduced sales. A price that’s too low will lead to reduced profits, and consumers that think there’s something wrong with the product. So what’s the answer? Let your market dictate your product’s price, that way you will find the optimum price at which you can make the most revenue. In other words find out how the price elasticity of demand affects your product. This video uses the example of … Read more

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Your Guide to Freelance Writing

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Sales Advisory Team
Your Guide to Freelance Writing

Great, you’ve decided you would like to do some freelance writing for magazines, Ezines, newspapers, and online content. Sadly so have millions of others, so how do you plan to stand out among your competition? It’s really simple You must be memorable You must do it better You must be more competitive Experts in their field are in demand and that applies to freelance writers too. While there may be millions of writers out there, some have poor English or they do not understand structure. In other words, they’ve just called themselves a writer without anything to back that claim … Read more

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