July 27, 2010category | Support
As business owners, freelancers, service providers, or just anyone that gets paid for the work services or products they provide time tracking and invoicing can be a pain. Keeping your business organized and making sure that you are being paid for the time you spend on projects is vital to any small or mid-sized business. Well, it’s vitally important to large corporations, but at that time you most likely have huge firms to manage all of your accounting. This article is aimed at those that are looking for inexpensive ways to track time and invoice their clients. If your also looking for a way to manage projects, be sure to check out our 10+ Top Project Management and Collaboration Applications.
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July 13, 2010category | Design Develop
Or What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain
Caffeine Boost
As a business owner or employee there are times when we have had to pull a late night to get that budget report done, make the final touches on a proposal, or the project completed that was just handed to you. All to often, as Americans work longer hours as it is, we are exhausted. Most of us turn to a trusted and warm favorite…coffee or another form of liquid caffeine.
Recently in LifeHacker, they looked at the well known stimulant that we know very little about. The general consensus on caffeine studies shows that it can enhance work output, but mainly in certain types of work. But, don’t expect it to replace a week long work-a-holic binge. Read this interesting article on caffeine and what it does to productivity and the human brain focusing on an excerpt from the book “Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine”, by Stephen R. Braun.
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April 5, 2010category | Support
Do you receive too much email? Are you bogged down and frustrated by how much time it takes to handle these snippets of online communication? According to a recent global study conducted by IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) the resounding answer is YES! In fact, so much so that our drowning in email is actually causing us to be less productive.
According to the study, the biggest culprits, or sources of email overload are:
- News sources and professional subscriptions (61 %)
- Co-workers (39%)
- Professional networks (34%)
- Team/department sources (29%)
- Company wide corporate sources such as senior mgmt and HR (23%)
Source: http://www.urgentbusinessforms.com/employee_handbook.asp
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