Bizpro Ltd – Virtual Assistants

The average businessperson would rather have a leg amputated than lose their essential mobile phone for just an hour. That`s no surprise considering the leaps and bounds mobiles have taken in technological advancement over the last few years, turning themselves into pocket PCs rather than simple communication devices. We’ve checked out the top 10 business phones du jour to help make choosing one much easier:

If you want to start recording your own audio books or record dictation, check out Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ It’s very easy to use and editing your audio is a cinch, a Great time saver!

Don’t know the answer to your Office question? An absolute must is www.officefrustration.com, it’s an experts forum packed with useful tips and ideas on how to get the most out of the Microsoft range of office applications.

www.businessballs.com – a wealth of business tools, templates and materials – all for free!

Wildcat SEO & Kasumi’s SEO blog – well worth a read!

http://wildcatseo.co.uk/blog/

http://www.kasumiseo.co.uk/

Bizpro has literally been built on networking.

When the business was first started, I networked online using Ecademy, and within two months I started networking face to face with 4Networking, who at that point in time were a relatively fledgling business, having been founded just over a year before. Bizpro has never looked back. 4Networking has turned traditional networking on its head. Gone are the stiff collars and cufflinks of yesteryear, instead it’s been replaced with a whole new breed of networkers. It’s brought together business owners of the 21^st century who realise that building the business relationship first and foremost is the key to gaining new business. People deal with people. 4Networking has never been about rules; most small business owners started their own businesses to escape rules in some form or another. 4Networking works with as few rules as possible. No one is forced to attend the breakfast meetings, and with their ‘passport’ membership, you can visit as many meetings as you like, where ever you are in the country. In the 18 months since I’ve been a member, the number of groups has more than tripled and they are rapidly spreading across the UK.

I’ve been the group leader for the Swindon group for just under a year, before that I was group leader of Faringdon and Operations assistant at Cirencester. I really enjoy being involved and it has done wonders for my profile. Not only have I made some great contacts and new clients from 4Networking, I’ve also had great fun. With the help of their online forum, I’ve even won new clients that I’ve never even met! Now, when I am looking for a supplier, I will always look to 4Networking members first, as I too prefer to deal with people I have ‘met’ and got to know.

Of course, I have tried other networking groups, and will continue to do so. It’s surprisingly encouraged by 4networkings MD, Brad Burton. He knows that his product works, and it works well, and he has nothing to fear by the competition.

So why not check it out for yourself? www.4networking.biz If you do, don’t forget to say hello!

I’ve always been a real advocate of Microsoft office. It’s superior layout, ease of use and sheer ability puts it streets ahead of the competition, or so I thought until two days ago. Being a software geek, I’ve always insisted on MS office and have had the complete package installed on all of our laptops & desktops.

You can only imagine my horror when it came to setting up my new net book, it doesn’t have the memory to support such a large set of programmes so I had no choice but to look for alternatives. I’m now the proud owner of a net book with OpenOffice installed, and I am amazed! So far so good, it installed very quickly, has a lot of the functionality I would expect of MS, similar layout so the easily confused, (such as myself on a bad day), can navigate around easily enough, and the best bit of all, it’s free! Yes, completely free! I’m very impressed. Not only does my shiny new net book have a writer, it also has the software for spreadsheets, presentations, databases. What more could a busy VA want?

Of course, one of the most important things is that it’s all still compatible with MS. After shelling out for all that MS software I’m certainly not going to give it up in a hurry!

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