by Erika Yost Kumar | Mar 27, 2017 | Systems and Strategy
We realized recently that we use over 50 services to run EPW! More on that in a future post. Like all small businesses, we are on a budget. And as a virtual business our main fixed overhead is the total cost of our monthly and annual services. With such a long list of...
by Erika Yost Kumar | Feb 28, 2017 | Lifestyle
Why start an online business in 2017? A couple of years ago our founder Elizabeth Potts Weinstein was featured in the Wall Street Journal article How to Build a Business That Fits Your Lifestyle. Regarding this growing type of entrepreneur, author Barbara Haislip...
by Erika Yost Kumar | Jan 25, 2017 | Systems and Strategy
As we start the new year, we are reminded of how crucial Slack has become to the success of our small business collaboration. Before Slack, we used a Wiki via Google Sites to organize our internal documents. The Wiki was helpful as a storage tool, but Slack is a fully...
by Erika Yost Kumar | Aug 29, 2016 | Systems and Strategy
Before Slack we were buried under a hard-to-manage jumble of bulky emails on disparate topics. Not so now! True to the buzz about this instant messaging and collaboration software, our small business team rarely uses email. Slack is now an integral part of our...
by Katie Browning | May 23, 2016 | Systems and Strategy
The birds are chirping, the trees are sprouting their first buds, and your desk is…well maybe not as freshly clean and organized as you’d like. Spring has a beautiful and sometimes disconcerting habit of sneaking up on us. When the world is reawakening, the...
