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How hot is it? Christmas in Australia. Who thought of that? It's rubbish. Way too hot to do any work but if you're a business owner it's a great time to catch up. One of the things that I love to do around this time because I don't have any friends is, I love going through invoices on a reoccurring schedule and just making sure that you are getting the best deal because there's a lot of hot deals out there in the hot summer's heat.
How Do Small Business Owners Go Away On Holidays?As a business owner of 11 years, I make sure that if I'm going to be going away on holidays my staff are completely ready for the event. Some of the things that I do in preparation is write down any task that I do myself and I do that for the preceding three months and I try and think of any task that there could be that needs to be done in the following three months or however long I'm going away on holidays. From there I then write up documented files.
I'm in the security field where we have to keep many, many businesses safe online, day in, day out, 24 hours a day. It's obviously a really, really important idea to make sure your business is safe online. There are lots of free tools and utilities out there that can help you keep things safe. As the old adage goes, If you can't afford an expensive tool, wait until you see how much the price of a cheap tool will cost you. It can impact your business greatly. We see it all the time, where people don't have tools in place, to keep their business safe.
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