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Making online networking work for your business

by: Amber McNaught
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As modern life gets busier and work/life balance becomes more of an issue for everyone, the Internet has really come into its own. We shop online, we chat online – and, if you’re a business owner, there's even the opportunity to network online.

In terms of flexibility, online networking has traditional networking well and truly beat. No longer are business owners forced to take time out from their businesses to fend of the advances of a dozen, business-card-wielding serial networkers at some military-style event. Now we can just log on to one of the many discussion forums dedicated to entrepreneur ship and be winning friends and influencing people in the click of a mouse.

In this respect, online networking is truly good news. With the freedom offered by the Internet, however, comes a whole new set of rules, the flouting of which can end up doing your business more harm than good. Here are just a few of them:

  1. Don't be too blatant

    Online networking is far subtler than its offline counterpart. It's just not the done thing to blaze into a business forum trailing promises of instant riches and dropping your URL like a scud missile. The trick is to try and integrate yourself into the community, offering advice where it's required and joining in the discussion. By positioning yourself as an expert in your field you'll gain more business in the long-term than blatant self promotion. And speaking of blatant self-promotion…

  2. Don't spam

    In terms of Internet discussion boards, spamming is defined as posting the same message on more than one board. Just as annoying as the type of spam which clutters your email inbox every day, this type of behaviour is more likely to loose you business than gain it. Resit!

  3. You only get back what you give

    There are some business owners who shudder at the very thought of giving their advice or help for free. These are the business owners who aren't making much of a success of online networking. The rule is simple: what you get out of it is roughly proportional to what you put in. Show yourself willing to offer your expertise to those who need it, and you'll be repaid in terms of referrals and more business from the people who see your posts.

  4. Don’t say anything you wouldn't be happy to say in front of your clients

    Online networking differs from "normal" discussion board use in that it's rarely anonymous. If you want to make the most of the experience, you'll need to tell people who you are, and use your URL in your signature. What that means, though, is that anything you say on the discussion board can be traced back to you – and could be seen by your clients. Stick to the rule of never saying on a discussion board what you wouldn't say in the boardroom and this shouldn't be a problem.

  5. Don't be rude

    This one should really go without saying, but an unfortunate side-effect of Internet discussion boards is that they often make people feel braver than they really are. Protected by the relative anonymity of a screen name, some people will take the opportunity to show their true colours – even when those colours are less than flattering. Remember rule number 4, though: on this kind of forum, you're never anonymous. If your business is identified, then you are too. More importantly, your behaviour will be seen as a reflection on your business. When you come across people whose opinions and pronouncements anger you, then, take a deep breath and step away from the keyboard before you end up saying something you'll regret.

  6. Use your signature

    Although blatant promotion is a big no-no in the world of online business networking, you still need to promote your business somehow. The place to do that is in your signature file, with a subtle but informative description of your business, and link to your website.
About the author:
Amber McNaught is an owner of http://www.businessbuzz.org,an online business networking group based in Scotland. She is also a professional writer, offering affordable copywriting and SEO articles through her own business, Hot Igloo Productions Ltd. – http://www.hotigloo.co.uk
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Offshore Assistants

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We are a team of virtual assistants with over 10 years of real-world, practical experience and a growing list of very satisfied clientele. We have a comprehensive and rich professional experience in both the public and private sector, serving in different types of organizations such as law enforcement, legal departments, the judiciary, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and multinational corporations. Our status as a team signifies that we have a wide range of available skills and backgrounds. Whatever your business or company needs, we will deliver.

Our core values have always been complete customer satisfaction, job efficiency, painstaking attention to detail, and prompt performance. We stand by our belief that our clients deserve the best we have to offer, and we commit to excellence and quality in terms of skills and services rendered. We believe that your business is your labor of love, and we treat your business as it were our own. Constantly driven to excel by these beliefs, we strive to provide the best value for your money.

We also expect our clientele to be equally dedicated to their business. We find that we work best with clients who are dynamic, energetic, expressive, and creative. We’ve come to realize that the best clients are those with excellent business sense: they know that placing too much emphasis on the performance of mundane tasks will seriously detract from the more pressing issues of actually running the business. Hence, they recognize the value of hiring virtual assistants to streamline company operations and relieve them of minor responsibilities, thus giving them complete freedom to run the business.

If you would like to avail of our services, we would be happy to provide you with a complimentary consultation meeting or call, completely free of charge or obligation. Please look to our Contact Us page to find our complete contact information.

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What we can do for you

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We specialize in virtual assistant services for taking care of your administrative, secretarial, clerical, and legal tasks. These tasks are, without a doubt, vital and necessary for your business, and we present a way for you to efficiently manage them and, simultaneously, manage the more critical aspects of your business’ or company’s operations. We can also work with you to identify what your special or specialized needs are.

General Office Support Services
Word processing
Business correspondence writing
Data entry
Desktop publishing and design:  flyers, brochures,  newsletters,  and other printed material
Document proofreading and      editing
Spreadsheets, graphs,  and charts
Marketing assistance, including telemarketing
Multimedia presentations and slideshows
Database management and  maintenance
Research
Bookkeeping and accounting payroll and billing

Specialized Business Support Services
Business start-up assistance
Corporate identity packages
Screening, interviewing,  and hiring of new employees
Insurance quotes
Marketing assistance and support
Feasibility studies and marketing research

Legal Support Services
legal transcriptions
drafting pleadings, briefs, and other legal documents and correspondence
investigative reports
legal research
proofreading and editing of legal documents
client interviews
witness interviews
private investigation

Our expertise is based on years of top-level administrative experience and training. We carefully evaluate and subject our virtual assistants to a rigorous screening process. When you avail of our virtual assistants’ services, you can expect the services of a fully-qualified expert. You don’t have to go through the tedious process of hiring and screening new employees.If your company’s or business’ workload and/or budget doesn’t allow for full-time permanent administrative staff, or if your workload periodically piles up and cases a backlog in your operations, you need our virtual assistants.

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Availing of Our Services

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As an entrepreneur or small- or medium-scale business owner, you realize the value of your time. Running a business is a dynamic activity: it is imperative to be on top of the situation 24/7/365. Unfortunately, the little details of running a business tend to eat up your precious little time and detract from the more important concerns of running the business.

As a manager of a medium- to large-scale corporation, you are probably familiar with the periodic build-up in the overall company workload: peak seasons bring in torrents of drowning paperwork that, if not properly managed, will take up a lot of your time and energy, both of which are better off spent on actually managing the company. The fact that this phenomenon is seasonal in nature makes it infeasible to hire full-time permanent employees, and hiring part-time employees will further take up a lot of time and resources.

Before we begin a job with your business or company, we will schedule a free consultation meeting or call with you. This is a cursory call and we discuss our services in even greater detail. We aim to establish a degree of rapport with you, our prospective customer, and we mean to show you that we are serious about doing business with you. During this first discussion, we will try to identify your business’ or company’s specific needs; the needs of businesses are unique and they have to be carefully addressed for our virtual assistant services to be fully effective.

After we have identified your company’s needs with you, we will draft a formal detailed job specification along with highly specific recommendations for your company. We submit this specification to you for your approval and revisions. If our proposed specification is to your satisfaction, we can then begin to work with you and your company or business. Otherwise, we will revise the specification until it meets your demands, thereupon we begin our work with you.

Our complete contact details can be found on our Contact Us page on this website. We look forward to a productive working relationship with you and your company or business.

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Pros and Cons of Having an Offshore Bank Account

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Offshore banking has been infamously associated with corrupt executives, drug dealers or other unlawful people avoiding taxation and keeping discreet accounts to hide their criminal deeds. However, this is not generally true. In fact, 80 – 90% of offshore bank accounts are used to protect businesses from lawsuits, scams or other threats.

An offshore bank is typically located in a place with low or no tax jurisdiction. People mostly open an offshore bank account for this reason, for it has legal and financial benefits. However, while there are advantages in offshore banking, there are disadvantages as well.

Pros:

1. Offshore banks can provide stable jurisdictions and regulated banking systems. This is beneficial for people living in politically troubled areas where their assets may freeze, or worse, disappear.

2. There’s not much government interference in offshore banks, so sometimes they offer higher interest rates and lower cost bases than in home countries.

3. Offshore banks sometimes offer services that domestic banks may not be able to provide. Examples of these services are anonymous bank accounts, investment opportunities that cannot be offered anywhere else, and lower of higher rate loans.

4. Offshore banking can provide developing countries opportunities to prosper because offshore finance is an industry that could make remote islands be engaged in source investment, thus creating economical growth.

5. Offshore banks mostly pay interest without having to deduct tax.

Cons:

1. Offshore finance, although a legitimate financial establishment, has been linked with unlawful acts like terrorism, underground economy and money laundering. Along with the events that followed the September 11 attacks, offshore banks were accused of helping terrorist groups and organized crime groups.

2. Offshore bank accounts are mostly available to those who have higher incomes, as the cost of establishing an account is quite high. This leaves the tax burden to the middle-income group in developed countries.

3. Offshore banking has been referred to as the solution to all the financial and legal asset protection issues. However, this is not always the case.

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