Posted by pattya on February 17, 2009
Even though I live in a fairly small town, I consider myself lucky that there are several different wireless internet providers in the area. Pretty much everywhere you go, there is a wireless hotspot, which I think is great. I’m a freelance writer and editor, and while I have a wonderful office and high speed internet service at my home, I love to get out of my comfort zone and do some writing outside of the house. It’s a great way to get the creative juices flowing.
My nice little Midwestern town is somewhat of a tourist haven and it’s great to be able to grab my laptop and go sit in a park or a nice little coffee shop and do some people watching to find inspiration. While I do sometimes just use a pad and pen, having the option of a wireless connection can help if I need to look something up on line. And business owners are great about letting people sit for hours with a laptop, surfing the net or writing.
I think that the only place in town that doesn’t have internet access is the local church and I wouldn’t be all that surprised to find out that even they were wired!
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Posted by Primer on January 29, 2009
I have a really cool job. I work at a bicycle shop. And you can bet your bottom dollar that I have a really nice mountain bike! It’s the biggest bike shop in town, and as you probably can guess my friends are all jealous because they all have crummy jobs. Anyway, our owner just really kicked things up a notch in the whole technology department.
For years, whenever anyone wanted to buy something, we had to manually punch the part number into the computer. That’s all fine and dandy, except that some of the part numbers are really long and even will often times contain letters. It is very time consuming. Plus, if you miss just one number or letter, everything gets all screwed up!
So the owner went out and bought a barcode printer and some cordless barcode scanners. Welcome to the 21st century! It all hooked right into the existing inventory control software too. That meant that none of us had to learn a whole new system which had been a concern of mine when I first heard he was doing this. So without reinventing the wheel or really changing things up that much, he went and made my job a lot easier.
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Posted by equiPrime on August 21, 2008
Many people are starting to provide business support services from home. This is a great job that you can do fairly easily with only a limited amount of equipment. However, there may be some types of equipment that you’ll opt to add to your home office specifically because of the clients that you choose to provide support services to.
For example, if you were going to supply regular business support services that required printing and mailing of fliers and brochures then you might want to invest in some equipment that would make you capable of assisting in that work. An electric paper cutter, a business card cutter, and a corner rounder are examples of equipment that you might want to buy for a job like this.
You wouldn’t want to make this type of investment if you planned on providing only temporary services to such a business. In that case you would keep your investment minimal - a phone, a computer with high-speed Internet, an all-in-one printer / fax machine and other office basics would suffice. Think about whether or not your clients will be long-term clients before you choose to spend money on equipment that is specific to certain industries.
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