by KevPartner on 17th March, 2010
As a business owner, keeping organised is critical especially if, like me, you’re naturally disorganised! I’ve been using Backpack by 37Signals for a number of years and all of my businesses have a separate Backpack account. It’s a very easy to use, fairly free-form organisational tool and I use it largely for keeping track of [...]
by KevPartner on 5th February, 2010
Whilst primarily a piece of blogging software (this site uses it), WordPress is also used for creating fully-featured business websites. Indeed, unless your website is your business (eg ecommerce or web applications) WordPress is likely to be the best way to achieve an effective, professional online presence that you can then easily update and manage. [...]
by KevPartner on 13th September, 2009
If you’re hiring serviced offices then networking will be taken care of for you but if you work from home, you’ll need some way of reliably connecting to the internet from your home office/spare room and accessing extra storage. Having additional storage means you can keep project files on that storage device and then access [...]
by KevPartner on 13th September, 2009
When you start working from a home office, the natural thing to do is to use your existing broadband connection and leave things at that. However, if your business depends on having a connection to the internet (and whose doesn’t?) then you need to have a good quality connection day to day and a back-up [...]
by KevPartner on 10th September, 2009
When I set my business up in 1999 there was really only one choice for accounting software: Sage and you’d be forgiven for thinking that this was still the case given their marketing budget and visibility. The consequences of choosing Sage were that I needed to employ someone specifically to use that one piece of [...]