If you haven’t discovered text messaging on your cell phone or iPhone, you may want to consider it as a way to save time with phone calls. 
Generally, when on the phone, you get involved longer than planned unless you’re very self-willed.
With text messaging, you can send and receive messages at leisure and answer when you have time.  You also can access e-mail messages and send them with some phones with Internet access.  (One of my business colleagues does this instead of having her laptop with her all the time.)  Very rarely do the text messages require an instant reply so don’t interrupt …read more

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, sometimes I miss the good old days. A simpler, kinder time when life wasn’t dictated by the sounds of gadgets or lit by the glow of a monitor screen.
Ahh… but life keeps moving and speed isn’t always a bad thing. So, the b5 business channel bloggers put their heads together and wrote about how to live simply and work in a technological age.
The concepts are diverse, but there’s a common theme: simplicity. Is slow the new fast? Read on to find out.
Simplicity can be a powerful thing. Eric Eggertson points to …read more

In small business, there is a tendency to work hard and hope that nothing bad will happen. Taking calculated risks (like skimping on insurance) can lower overhead for a start up until the business is more solvent.
However when a crisis happens in a small business this leaning tower is more vulnerable when under attack and can topple more easily.
Here the Organized Biz perspective on crisis management (and a few opinions, too) that can give you a solid foundation that withstands the unexpected.
Plan for emergencies:
I’m willing to bet that writing a risk management or crisis management policy …read more