Third Hand Secretarial LLC

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 [...]

Billshrink.com allows you to compare cell phone and texting plans offered by your current carrier. You upload your most recent mobile bill and the site will tell you whether your carrier has a cheaper plan that meets your needs. Billshrink can also figure out if changing carriers will save you money factoring in any early [...]

iChat has a quick and easy way to transfer files, especially larger sized files. The process is very easy if the person is on your iChat Buddy List. Find the file you would like to transfer, drag it on to the name on your Buddy List. The person receiving the file will need to click [...]

You are working on a confidential planning document for a client of yours and you would like the words “Confidential” to appear along the page. It is very easy to set up a Watermark in Word. Right click on a toolbar and select the WordArt toolbar On the WordArt toolbar, select insert WordArt icon From [...]

The National Speakers Association (NSA) is the leading organization for those who speak professionally. NSA’s thousands of members include experts in a variety of industries and disciplines, who reach audiences as trainers, educators, humorists, motivators, consultants, authors and more. NSA-NJ is the New Jersey Chapter of the NSA and is dedicated to advancing the art [...]

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 [...]

Ready.gov has available a sample Business Emergency Plan which can be downloaded by visiting ready.gov. The SBA has a website called PrepareMyBusiness. This website is filled with resources including planning documents to download; event schedules listing upcoming webinars plus links to view archived webinars; and should disaster strike, resources that can help you get back [...]

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 [...]

Last month Apple released Lion, their new OS X update to Snow Leopard. Lion is only available through the MAC App Center for the cost of $29.99. Before you upgrade a few system requirements: Your MAC must have Intel Core 2 Duo Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 or Xeon. To locate your processor, click [...]