Small Office, Home Office Information

by Stuart and Toni Livesey

It’s been another busy week for us and we are certainly looking forward to the weekend. It’s also been a week where the weather here in Queensland has finally remembered that it’s summer so things have been a little hot these last few days.

Hopefully this last week has been as productive for your small business as it has been for ours.

We’ll leave you this week with three links to sites that you might find useful.

The PC Decrapifier - if you’ve bought a Dell PC or laptop that has come with a whole lot of rubbish pre-installed then you may find this tool rather useful. Some of the comments on the site suggest that it might be useful for other brands of PCs and laptops too.

Compendium of idea generation methods - if you need to do a little brainstorming with the staff of your small business but don’t quite know how to encourage them to get into brainstorming mode then here is a huge list of ways to get people to think.

Get Projects Done - if you need a way of keeping everyone in your small business on the same page when it comes to the projects your working on then this tool might be useful. We haven’t tried it yet but we will be looking at it over the weekend.

And that’s it for this week - the beach sure is looking good on Sunday

If you happen to be into cars then check out Aussie Motoring over the weekend - there are some interesting classic cars in there as well as plenty of information on the current crop of new vehicles.

by Stuart Livesey

Well this has been an interesting week to say the least. Several clients hit us with desperate pleas for work to be completed before Christmas and somehow we managed to get it all done. But it’s also left us so weary that we’ve made a firm decision not to work like that again.

In both cases the clients have known about the approaching deadlines for at least a month but never bothered to warn us and when a third client hit us up yesterday with a request to get some work done before Christmas they were politely turned down.

And just to underscore that decision - I was told by my Optometrist on Thursday that I either cut back on my hours in front of the computer or my eyesight will deteriorate to the point where I won’t be able to continue doing what I do.

It’s a warning that no small business person can ignore for too long.

And now to Friday Links.

What’s a Click Worth - it’s a simple tool to help you work out what the value is of each person who comes to your website.

Little Known Ways to Brand on the Cheap - 99 tips for poor web startups who want to get their name out there.

Leo’s Icon Archive - thousands of free icons for your website (just watch out for the popups).

And that wraps things up for this week. We won’t be posting now till after Christmas so Toni and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy and harmonious Christmas - it’s a good time for most small business people to take a break and recharge the batteries so make sure you do

After another couple of hard days I’m back with Friday’s links for your small business … on a Saturday

Over the last couple of weeks I guess I’ve been most noticeable for my absence … well that is all due to just one factor - a huge increase in the amount of work that’s being thrown at us. I guess we must be doing something right.

Anyway, on to Friday’s links.

The Sweet 16: Principles for Building a Successful Internet Business - both Toni and I got plenty of food for thought from this link.

Warning Label Generator the title is self-explanatory and the site might be handy if you need a warning label or sign in a hurry.

The National Sleep Research Project - what small business person ever gets enough sleep?

The Making of a LEGO - trust me, at 28,500 bricks every minute, Lego is taking over the world.

Pink Floyd Live - what can I say? It’s a recording of a live concert - possibly Thunder (I haven’t had time to sit back and watch it right through - and we’re both Pink Floyd fans

Welcome to Friday’s Links - this is a new weekly category where I’ll list some of the links I’ve found over the last week that should be helpful for small business and people who run a home office.

So here are the Friday Links for this week:

PDF Online - converts a variety document types into PDF format for free. There is a paid version too.

Telegraphics - Free plugins for Photoshop, Illustrator and other software.

How a Colour Blind Person Sees the World - there are some interesting thoughts raised by a person who is colour blind.