Buzz: Successful Office – success is just a phone call away!

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successfulHave you ever wanted your website/home office to have the appearance or facilities of a larger corporation? Perhaps you live in one country but your business is registered in another…? Well, today I’m introducing the Successful Office Group who have asked for a buzz on their business and website.

Naturally, I have thought about having this kind of answering service a number of times so it’s important that they have the right kind of services to help you in your business:

  • office addresses – help to make your ‘virtual’ business concrete,
  • toll free numbers – great for customers,
  • a local number – always useful,
  • voicemail – customized greetings,
  • mail forwarding services (at reasonable cost!), and
  • fax services – faxes are forwarded to you via email.

It seems also that these services can also be supplemented by a number of different options to enhance and extend your ‘virtual’ office team. This option could be attractive for businesses in a number of ways, as they seek to expand quickly and efficiently. There are three levels of services with corresponding (but remarkably affordable, and – importantly – determined cost structures): Basic, Admin and Executive Offices

So, if you think you could use any of these services, check out Successful Office‘s website. And in 24 hours, your new company image will be ready!

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Firefox 2.0: A Blogger’s Useful Firefox Plugins

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Firefox really is a much better browser than IE. I guess that’s been said before, but many reviews claimed IE7 finally was now a worthy competitor for Firefox and that it had introduced many of the similar features that made Firefox standout.

But IE7 has a number of challenges that still persist: including the use of add-ons. Yes, Firefox can add extensions that will enhance, modify or even extend the features set beyond what was originally programmed. And the selection is huge, currently over 2,300 add-ons, though some are not being actively developed.

My selection is below with some comments:

  • Fasterfox – I use this to speed up Firefox Browsing. It can tweak a number of settings easily and you’ll notice a difference.
  • fireftp – Yes, FTP from your browser. Stable and reliable, but doesn’t show hidden files reliably.
  • foxmarks – application that allows your bookmarks to be stored centrally and shared between your pcs wherever you are
  • foxy tunes – supports all media players that I know of and shows up a control set in your status bar.
  • gmail space – allows you to use Gmail as a webstore for files, not just email. Finally, you can put your 2GB allowance to good use.
  • ie tab – allows you to open IE windows in Firefox for those stubborn or shortsighted web pages that require IE usage. Dumb policy, but VERY useful extension.
  • payperpostopps – see here.
  • reload every – an extension that allows you to refresh your page every x seconds/minutes, useful if you are waiting for something to show up on a particular page, like a score, a stock price, etc..
  • scribefire – allows you to write posts to your blog from your browser.
  • search status – displays the Page Rank and Alexa ranking for any website you visit.

So those are my top ten at the moment, and I chose most of those for helping with my blogging. Firefox is highly extensible in other ways, too: Themes, Plugins, Add-ons, Dictionaries, and Search engines. And it’s available on MANY platforms (though some add-ons only work on Windows!). So why are you NOT using Firefox? Comments, please and tell me what you think about IE6/7 vs. FF 2.0/3.0.

Buzz: AuthorHouse – Can they turn Bloggers into Authors? Could be…

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authorhouseFor many bloggers, writing is a daily passion as they blog daily about their interests, hobbies and lives. Yet many bloggers do not know how easy it would be to convert their blogs into books.

This would be a good step for many reasons: increasing your cashflow, reaching out to readers beyond your blog, preserving your efforts in a different format, etc.. Authorhouse has been helping authors self-publish for years, and now they are asking InvestorBlogger for a buzz on their website.

So if you are interested in publishing your work online, you should read about their step-by-step process to help new authors get their projects completed on time. Unfortunately, they don’t provide quotes on their website, so you have to complete a little form with information about your project and submit it to them to get information about their publishing services and pricing.

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