Get Your Office Schedule Back on Track!

Written by Tracey Lawton


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Or use a combination of all three for maximum efficiency!

Get back in touch with your clients and contacts Now's a good time to update your client and contact database. It's easy to let things slip overrepparttar summer, so drop them a personal note or email and make sure thatrepparttar 103981 information you currently have for them is up-to-date-- and this will ensure that your information is accurate when you come to send those all-important Christmas greetings!

Get your website listed in as many places as possible! Update your directory listings; get entered on new industry directories; check backlinks--set up a spreadsheet to keep track of all of this.

Get your finances organised I know, it's summer; you'd rather be outside enjoyingrepparttar 103982 sunshine than inside organising your receipts. Now'srepparttar 103983 time to drag out all those business receipts and get your bookkeeping system back on track!

Follow these simple tips and you'll soon have your office schedule back on track!



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The Benefits of Online Portfolios

Written by Jesse S. Somer


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Another plus is that other designers may get in contact with you. Then you become part of a network, a miniature community that helps each other with ideas, access to jobs, and constructive criticism to help you improve your skills. Of course this is true with just about all industries today,repparttar example of a graphic designer is only a good one because their work is often hard to duplicate. This means that normally they can only see one employer at a time. Onrepparttar 103980 Internet you can get a list of allrepparttar 103981 graphic design companies with your search engine (Eg: Google), and send them all your web site address at once.

Having your personal portfolio onrepparttar 103982 Web will definitely save you a lot of money that would have otherwise gone to transportation and telephone costs. If you’re already an established designer, architect, or freelance writer you can exhibit your work and receive briefs on future jobs without ever leaving your office. Designers can send drafts ofrepparttar 103983 work on PDF files, which are then read and directly commented on using Acrobat reader. What a time saver inrepparttar 103984 creative process!

However, for those who are still convinced ofrepparttar 103985 old fashioned need for a business card, what would be more simple and straightforward than a card with just your name and one link to your web site. As long as you’re keeping yourself inrepparttar 103986 ‘sight’ of industry executives,repparttar 103987 better chance you’ll be in their minds when it comes to making a choice forrepparttar 103988 job.

Jesse S. Somer M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is an average person working to show other normal people the massive possibilities that integrating the Internet into our lives can offer humanity.


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