Working away from homePosted on 10. Jul 2008 by MyCanvas in tips, resources, entrepreneurette, business |
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Hi Everyone
Well this week is a new experience as I'm working away from home for a few days in Christchurch which is VERY cold ..... bbrrrrrrrr.
In my previous life working in corporate I would just set an out of office to say I was working 'off site' and advise an alternate contact or that I would be checking emails intermitently blah blah but not so easy
n it's just me. Plus not being on Exchange Server an 'out of office' reply isn't an option.Any tips for a way round this from any fellow home based businesses? How do you let people know you may not be able to reply to emails straight away? Maybe setting a rule on incoming emails?? Any tips would be good.
Everything else was pretty easy, managed my workload so customers orders were timed for expected deliveries a couple of days after my return and having a laptop makes 'my office' mobile. So from outside in it should be pretty 'seamless' from a customers viewpoint and as I can access the landline calls to the office from my mobile it's all good.
Now if only hotels recognised that small businesses can't afford to pay their inflated prices for internet access ... ha ha hence this blog will be a short one as the meter is ticking away :-)
Going to do a bit of market research while I'm here to see what's on offer in the world on canvas prints in Christchurch.
Bye for now
Tracey
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written by Fiona Powell, 10. Jul 2008
written by Wilma Ham, 19. Jul 2008
As you can see i am catching up on this site.
I have no idea how to do auto replies to emails, but is there nothing on gmail or wiht your isp provider?
There must be some office buffs on this site. Would love to hear the solution.
I know, how to juggle when there is only one of you.
However you seemed to have organized yourself pretty well.
Not my forte, however I have a very organized team mate.
