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March 2009
Dear Client,
Welcome to INNOVATE!, an administrative resource for small business owners. INNOVATE! is a product of Cybertary, a professional Virtual Assisting company. In these monthly emails we will be giving you numerous resources and tips you can use in your business, your home, your office and your life!
We are going green at Cybertary! It's good to be green all year round but we like to remind you with St. Patty's day approaching.
This month in INNOVATE! We share with you several ways to 'go green' at the office. Have you heard of the Kindle? We tell you all about it and how to use it in your business. Also, what better way to go green then to go paperless. Read our article on "How to Create a Paperless Office" to get you started today! Finally, in our LinkedIn series we continue to share ways to network your business, online.
Go green today to reduce your carbon footprint and save money with Cybertary!
Enjoy!
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Kindle Takes Business By Storm
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 By Denise Kotula
When Kindle 2, Amazon's second generation digital reader, was introduced on February 9, 2009, company founder Jeff Bezos claimed "customer response has far surpassed our highest hopes." Nowhere has the response been greater than in the American business community. Business users are credited for driving sales of digital reading devices like Kindle and the Sony Reader Digital Book far beyond all expectations.
An estimated 600,000 Kindles were sold in its first 15 months on the market, more than tripling projections from it's November 2007 launch. To put it in perspective: Kindle is selling on a pace nearly comparable to Apple's iPod when it was introduced. The result is a revolution in the publishing industry and in the business world.
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How to Create a Paperless Office
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 By Denise Kotula
By now, we've all heard that the process of making paper and subsequent deforestation of the planet causes CO2 gas emissions that cause the 'greenhouse effect' which is a main cause of global warming. Yipes.
But the truth is that we live in a world cluttered by paper. As good citizens of the world, shouldn't we be doing our part to reduce the use of paper, like creating a paperless office for our business?
Then again, our motives for creating a paperless office could be a tad more self-serving. Going paperless will save you money, make your office more efficient, save on space, and promote cleanliness and good organization. All the while, you'll be reducing your carbon footprint.
A paperless office is a business that stores all of its information and documentation in an electronic format. It makes paper redundant. Many companies store all of their files electronically, process their inventory, accounts payable and accounts receivable electronically, and convert receipts, memos, business cards and other documents they receive to electronic data.
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Building Your Business, One Link at a Time
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By Tracy Phipps, Owner - Cybertary, South Charlotte, NC
Well, you've created your LinkedIn profile -- now what? How do you build your network? First of all, once you have entered information about prior jobs, LinkedIn makes it very easy to connect to your colleagues. In the Contacts area, under Connections, you can choose to Add Connections via multiple tools. You can ask LinkedIn to search your Outlook box or other mail clients for any contacts that might be listed in LinkedIn. You can also browse your prior employers or educational institutions for people that you might know. Remember to personalize your invitation to connect -- make it valuable for them.
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