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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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For the past decade, BELAY has been witnessing this phenomenon firsthand through its network of contractors who supply virtual support as assistants, bookkeepers, web maintenance professionals and social media strategists. You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If

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As a new grad with a Philosophy degree, I got a job doing office admin and loved helping with the bookkeeping. I have flexible hours to work on my master’s and eventually CPA, my own office (no more hot-desking or cubicles!) and at my recent 6 month review I was given a little raise and bonus.

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. You can’t handle the website, sales and marketing, customer service, bookkeeping and taxes, build partnerships, and grow the business by yourself. You need help.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

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It’s because most new entrepreneurs don’t end up doing what they love, but spend their waking hours on payroll, bookkeeping and clogged toilets instead of making those artisanal flourless cupcakes. They say no to cubicle lunches, four-minute book summaries, “multitasking” (whatever the heck that means) and monochrome, microwave dinners.