April 2011
In this issue:
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Disaster-Proof Your Business |
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Virtual Office Management |
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Find an Extra Hour Every Day |
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Simplify Repetitive Actions |
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Business Continuity Tip |
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Make a Referral |
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Just for Laughs |
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Crown Sponsors
Local T-Ball Team
Business Continuity Tip
Prepare for
the first 72 Hours
The crisis in Japan is heart wrenching and hard to fathom. It's been said that this will be one of the most closely examined disasters in history. The lessons learned will help generations for years to come. But what can you do today to prepare your business and family for a large scale event? Simply put, prepare to go it alone for the first 72 hours.
FEMA recommends to be prepared with adequate supplies for the critical first 72 hours after a disaster. This includes operating under the assumption that utilities (phone, electricity, gas) as well as public safety (police and fire departments) may be unavailable. The following items should be included in a 72 hour "go bag" or kit:
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Disaster-Proof Your Business
by Jeff Wuorio
used with permission from the Microsoft Business Site
 If you're a business owner, you need to know how to protect your business.
Try as we might, there's often no way to skirt disaster — whether it's national, personal or weather induced. But there are strategies to cope with it as best we can, no matter if its source is a burst river levee, a thoughtlessly discarded match, or the deranged actions of others. Knowing what to do in the event of a disaster is crucial for anyone, of course, but particularly for a small-business owner, whose livelihood may depend on a small storefront or home basement office.
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Virtual Office Management
by Jeff Wuorio
used with permission from the Microsoft Small Business website
 Carole Martin has a marketing expert upon whom she relies for sharp ideas and provocative sales angles.
What's interesting about this is that the two have never met face to face. Their business relationship is truly "virtual."
"It takes many skills and personality types to run a business, even a small business. You really can't do it alone," says Martin, a Burlingame, Calif., writer and coach. "It's a strange world we live in."
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Find Out How To Get An Extra Hour Every Day
used with permission from the HP Small & Medium Business Site
 Time pressure is acute and frustrations such as commuting, inflexible working hours and tedious meetings make it worse.
To get things started here are ten sure-fire ways to get an extra hour a day.
Do emails on the go. With an HP notebook with 3G Mobile Broadband, you can get ahead of your emails before you even get to work. (Broadband connections require separately purchased wireless data service contracts.)
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Simplify Repetitive Actions with Quick Steps
Microsoft Office Demo
 Many of the most common actions most people take on e-mail messages involve multiple steps. For example, reply to a message and then move it to another folder, or forward a message to your team. Outlook 2010 includes Quick Steps, a gallery of commands that turn these multiple-step tasks into one click.
Watch this video to see how Quick Steps help you act on your e-mail messages more efficiently, and how to make custom Quick Steps to do your own repetitive tasks. |
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Quote of the Month
All things being equal, people will do
business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.
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