Setting up your Virtual Office

By Gayle Buske, President and CEO, Team Double-Click® and VirtualAssistingUSA

At Team Double-Click®, our clients often ask just how to go about setting up a virtual office – in other words – how does a small but growing business owner avoid renting bricks-and-mortar office space – and with good reason. Even the tiniest of offices “in town” can run several hundred dollars a month. Add to that the cost of the commute (not cheap these days with the cost of gasoline well over $3.00 per gallon in most places), the furniture and computers to furnish that same office, and a full-time assistant (whom you still have to pay even when you don’t have work to keep them busy).

Choosing the Right Paid (or Unpaid) Job Service

By Gayle Buske, President and CEO, Team Double-Click® and VirtualAssistingUSA

• Do your homework – be sure the site is not just pulling job postings from other sites and placing them on their own. In this case, you don’t stand much of a chance at winning the business because the client or employer is so bombarded with responses. *Case in point – Team Double-Click® placed ONE job posting and received over 1,000 responses!

Getting It All Done – A Virtual Guide To Multitasking

By Gayle Buske, President and CEO, Team Double-Click® and VirtualAssistingUSA

As I look around my office I have to wonder how I’m going to complete my task list today. In my efforts to cut costs to try and combat the economy that also means I have more work to do and less time to do it.

Being a Contractor, the Business Side of Things…

By Gayle Buske, President and CEO, Team Double-Click® and VirtualAssistingUSA

You have to look at contracting a bit differently than you do a “regular” job. You have to look at it as a business, even if you’re working at it part-time. When you think contractor, think entrepreneur. That’s exactly what you are. There is always a need for you to budget your money and your time, as well as sell yourself and your services.