Exploring the Small Office/Home Office Lifestyle | SOHO Wife

A Lesson in Entrepreneurship: Creating Success out of Failure

November 16, 2009

In creating and building anything there is always the possibility for failure. Failing at anything is a total bummer. However, with failure comes potential- potential to bounce back, to refresh, to create, or to look at something from a different perspective. My parents have taught me that you should never accept failure; to always go [...]

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The Pros and Cons of Running a Business Out of your Home

November 13, 2009

I began working from home right after college when I joined our family business, Ovaleye Web Solutions. Since then the majority of the clients I have had the pleasure of working with have begun new businesses from their kitchen tables, extra bedrooms, and local coffee shops. Whether you are building a business from your home, subcontracting, or your employer is letting you work from your home office, there will be pros and cons to living the work from home lifestyle. Here are a few…

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7 Takeaways from Shine

November 11, 2009

Last week my mom and I got the chance to escape from our usual to work on the business vs. inside our business for the first time in a while at Ali Brown’s Shine Event in Las Vegas.
The event was packed with learning and networking opportunities. The first day we were given the chance to [...]

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The Quarter Lifer in Me: Life List

November 4, 2009

The purpose of SOHO Wife is to write on my adventures in exploring the work from home lifestyle. I follow many other blogs like my own and some that encompass others areas of my explorations- movies, online marketing, trendy tech, etc. One of my utmost guilty pleasures is in following the Stratejoy blog. Molly, in [...]

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Beating Holiday Stress

October 26, 2009

Earlier this month, my mother and I went to a popular networking group for the first time where their speaker discussed how to prevent holiday stress. Funny, because that is what we are focussing on this month for OvalEye. Last month we sent out a newsletter that outlined simple steps that help businesses de-stress their [...]

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White Boarding

October 20, 2009

This summer I wrote about taking notes on a small white board (the type you would use on a college dorm room door) and how that eliminated clutter on my desktop. Along with writing my notes down on a white board, another pastime of mine is to use the much larger white boards for brainstorming [...]

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How to Make a Web Cam Video

October 13, 2009

Last weekend I created my first ever web cam video for a scholarship contest. It was so much harder than it looks! Yes, today creating a video to view online is made technically so simple, but being in the video while in your home office is tricky.
Making sure you are viewed in your best light [...]

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More Google Calendar Magic

October 12, 2009

Just a quick followup on my last post re: Google Calendar and how you can easily organize your home office and virtual team. Two things:

Google Calendar has a Twitter account - follow them http://twitter.com/googlecalendar
American Express Open Forum ran an article last month from Mashable on staying organized with Google calendar- for tips like color coding [...]

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How to Create a Schedule for your Team

October 10, 2009

Our company, OvalEye Web Solutions makes use of Google Calendar as our scheduling platform. Being the family business we are, we create multiple calendars for each of our personal lives, business appointments, and marketing deadlines. It is fantastic; easy, free, and fun.
How to create a Google Calendar:
1. Sign up for a Google Account (if you [...]

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