Third Hand Secretarial LLC

I’m sure you’ve heard of Happy Hour, but have you heard about Power Hour?  Power Hour is something you should be doing at least once a week during your working day.   It’s the time that you carve out of your busy schedule to do the highest-payback tasks for your business.  These include items like strategic [...]

Does it seem like you need to accomplish more in less time than ever before?  Just about every small business owner I know is overwhelmed with everything they need to do.  Many factors are contributing to this feeling:  new technologies, increased government regulation, a need to market harder, and less access to capital are just [...]

Some small business owners have the mistaken belief that as long as they have all their paperwork together in one box that they’re doing a good job with their finances.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In bookkeeping circles this is known as “shoebox bookkeeping” and many times it’s a bookkeeper’s worst nightmare at [...]

Article marketing allows small business owners the ability to promote their services and expertise by making the article content available freely for reproduction on various article submission websites. So how does it work and what are the benefits to Article Marketing?  Here I have outlined the top 5 benefits to Article Marketing and how it [...]

With more and more of us using smart phones, online banking, cloud computer, and online credit card purchases, we need to be ever so cautious when it comes to our personal information and identity theft. I would like to share some steps you can take to protect yourself from identity theft. Identity theft occurs when [...]

The fall months are a great time to rev up your business revenue.  Many business owners are freshly back from retreat or vacation, and they’ve had time to refresh and rejuvenate themselves and their staff.  Now it’s time to benefit from all that creativity that’s been unleashed and put those ideas to work. If you’re [...]

You wouldn’t be in business if it weren’t for your clients. Yet, sometimes we almost forget that we are ultimately in business to receive a salary and to make a profit. In large companies, a balance must be maintained between serving clients and serving the shareholders.  In your small business, the shareholder is YOU, so [...]

You’ve probably heard advice about how it helps to carve out a niche for your business. But did you know it will also save you a tremendous amount of time? Here’s why. When a small business first opens, the entrepreneur is thankful to take anyone who breathes and pays their bill. Once the business fills [...]

As small business owners with many of us working from our homes, we do not think about what a disaster can do to our businesses. Here in New Jersey we have the threat of hurricanes during the summer months and even in the winter we can get hit hard by Nor’easters that bring several feet [...]

Are you one of the many who have made the switch from Windows to the Mac and now find yourself unfamiliar with the QuickBooks for Mac environment? You aren’t alone. This is one of the major concerns many have when they move to a Mac environment. They fear it will affect their bookkeeping and are [...]