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How Web Hosting is Like a Free Puppy
Without getting too deep, I want to share with you a few “secrets” I’ve learned along the way to avoid 95% of the issues that typically come with having a site live on the internet.
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Working with Virtual Assistants – 5 Key Lessons Learned Along the Way (Part Two)
As a business owner, you want things to be streamlined and systemized as much as possible to reduce your own learning curve, turbulence from changing to new systems frequently, etc. You will need tools for time tracking and reporting, invoicing and collecting payments, project management, email marketing, and database management. Through some trial and error, we’ve found a suite of tools that work fantastically … one of the things I looked for when choosing our tools was API integration capabilities.
I want the tools we’re leveraging to integrate well with other tools we use. I also learned a hard lesson and now skip the more obscure free tools. We pay for a lot of our tools, and we use the “most popular” tools in the marketplace: Basecamp, Google Apps, Freshbooks, SalesForce, MailChimp, 1ShoppingCart, Hoot Suite.