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• Soapbox

  11 ½ resolutions to break in 2009

  Okay, so they’re easy to make and virtually impossible to keep, but with every New Year comes resolutions. At Flying Solo we put our heads together and came up with these 11 ½ practical resolutions for micro business owners.

  • Published today
  • Peter Crocker
  • 5 Comments

• Technology

  Eight no-nos of web design

  We all appreciate how a website’s design can help or hinder its effectiveness. Is your site guilty of one or more of these common web design no-nos?

  • Published yesterday
  • Zern Liew
  • 17 Comments

• Technology

  Value of websites: Do you really need one?

  In a recent forum discussing the value of websites, someone remarked how a number of professions e.g. tradespeople, say that websites are of no benefit to them. Between ads in the local paper and being busy anyway, they do not need or want a website.

  • Published 4 days ago
  • Kathie M. Thomas
  • 21 Comments

• Stay Balanced

  The Slow Movement: Hurry up and slow down!

  Our modern way of living assumes faster is better. Speed is the new king with our lives measured in bits and bytes, and dissected into micro-detail. Is it any wonder our health, performance and relationships begin to suffer? Is it time to slow down?

  • Published 01 January 09
  • Andrew May
  • 9 Comments

• Starting Out

  Flying Solo the book: perfect holiday reading!

  If you want to get 2009 off to a great start, grab a copy of Flying Solo - How to go it alone in business. This book will give you the confidence and tools you need to get your business flying.

• Technology

  Business emails: Five simple rules

  Sam Leader's article on mobile vs email and Megan Tough's article looking at the contemporary rules around using mobile phones got me thinking about another modern day bugbear of mine – the incorrect use of business emails.

  • Published 31 December 08
  • Trish Weston
  • 10 Comments

• Soapbox

  What Gordon Ramsay said about my business

  So there I was quietly going about my work when foul mouthed Gordon burst in and gave it to me with both barrels. Some of what he had to say was hard to swallow.

  • Published 30 December 08
  • Robert Gerrish
  • 44 Comments

• Technology

  Mobile phone manners

  It’s my observation that shortly after the mobile phone was introduced to society, we rewrote the book on manners. Here are seven things about mobile phone manners that really set me off.

  • Published 29 December 08
  • Megan Tough
  • 18 Comments

• Technology

  Free software or freeware for small business

  Following on from my article 20 Money Saving Tips, I wanted to share free software or 'freeware' I have tried and tested. Freeware is offered by software firms on a trial basis, in the hope that you will upgrade to their subscription based product.

  • Published 26 December 08
  • Heather Smith
  • 22 Comments

• Solo Psyche

  Can you run a business from the beach?

  Inspired by those cheesy images of freelancers working blissfully from the beach, I took a towel, sunnies, big straw hat and my trusty laptop down to the beach to write my Flying Solo article in the sun. Here’s the unedited result.

  • Published 25 December 08
  • Noel Ranger
  • 17 Comments

• Starting Out

  Using fear to build confidence

  Even the most confident people feel an element of fear when they step outside their comfort zone. Think of someone successful. That person has felt fear too, but they faced their fear and gave it a go anyway. You can use fear to build confidence too!

  • Published 24 December 08
  • Lucinda Lions
  • 21 Comments

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