Working on the web – Part 1
I am repeatedly amazed by the large quantity of groups who are currently realising the advantages of the world wide web to make a living. I own a growing number of diverse net based businesses which as a whole give me a better return than it was possible to ever realise being a permanent employee. I still ‘work’ the same number of hours but I do not have deal with the hassles of commuting any longer, which is a big relief. I finally have control over my income and my quality of life.
Supervising a multitude businesses is fulfilling, but I have had to find better ways of being more structured and improving the way I work. To organise people who buy what I have to sell and the income and expenses of my firms, I use a set of web applications – you need excellent small business management software to be efficient and let you focus finding and servicing customers. I purchased a Quickbooks login and a NetSuite login. I can log in to these useful tools from from my laptop and they make it easy for me to oversee all of the sales and cash activities in real time.
From my NetSuite login I am able to see all of the selling activities on my e-commerce systems and observe the results of the Google Adwords projects that direct searchers to my web stores. I have stopped using Microsoft Office which has been succeeded by a Google Account containing all of the services I need, like e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets. I can access these packages from where I choose to work.
I have significantly improved my skills, I have discovered a treasure trove of free and cheap material which I have quickly studied. One of the most invaluable lessons I have got to know is how to identify and outsource repetitive operations, to individuals who can do this quicker and at a lower cost. I can directly identify the time at which I passed my earnings ceiling to my realising of the advantages of delegating some of the work draining most of my time, to me increasing my earnings to above that of my wages whilst in permanent employment.
In Part 2, I go into detail about how I get things done.
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