Planning and starting your own business, especially for retired seniors, are both fun and exciting as it marks a new chapter in your life and also, it will help you keep the financial aspect of your retired life running. However, doing it on your own can be tougher and may even bring about more stressful situations than all your working years combined—the one you retired from! Your simple solution? Get [...]

Considering the age we must be in right now and the experiences we have had so far, by common sense it is safe to assume that somehow seniors have already developed and honed their persuasion skills very well. We might even have developed our own tricky little ways to get the things we want in life. However, all things considered, some seniors prefer to just go with the flow and [...]

When you talk about virtual offices, virtual assistants are never too far out of mind. In fact, it would be the next big thing you’ll ever do for your virtual office, especially as your business expands. Many seniors may frown with this idea as it is a fairly new way of conducting business and it requires certain level of techie “know-how”. However, hiring a virtual assistant has many, many benefits [...]

I never thought the day would come when seniors would have to brush up on their job interview skills! Back then, when you talk about senior workers, it would be the seniors doing the interview and the interviewee would be 20-something, nervous and perspiring guys. Now that the playing field got even and competition is now made stiffer than ever, it’s very common to see younger guys doing the interview [...]

Virtual offices, what are they? They function similar to a traditional office, only your staff is offsite which means, you don’t get to see your staff daily. It was said that virtual offices became popular with the advent of technology and information age, also called as, the internet age. This is the time when communicating globally is not only possible but also made very easy. With thousands of tools available [...]

When you say branding, you always associate it with a product, most probably commercial wares you are currently marketing or advertising to a specific target market. The word “brand” itself, by definition, is anything that represents a product, designed to make the product recognizable by its patrons. Branding on the other hand is a process or steps you take in order to educate your patrons of your product. Let’s take [...]

Gone are the days when you purchase a readymade questionnaire, or form, with little boxes in it and try as you might to maintain a somewhat decipherable writing or what they call as legible handwriting. With the advent of the computer and yes, the internet too, there are now hundreds of resume templates you can use for your job hunting, or even for reference purposes. Even your hideous looking ID [...]

Your satisfaction level at work is very important especially during your senior years. It should be something that you enjoy doing and dealing every single day. A work that stresses a senior is most likely to have implications to his or her health. However, due to financial reasons—and maybe a little bit of hormonal imbalances on the side—seniors are having a hard time knowing if they are really dissatisfied with [...]

As the competition in workforce grow stiffer by the minute, more and more seniors are leaning toward entrepreneurship as their means of income before and during retirement years. It’s quite understandable though, as starting/maintaining your own business gives you more control and if you’re really, really good at it, stability—things that you cannot be certain when employed to a company. However, starting a small business can be complicated, and can [...]

If you’re managing a one-man business then you don’t have a problem with employees. Chances are, you are just starting out and don’t need help yet. But as your business grows, you’ll soon realize how important it is to get help, probably one or two to do the office and admin work while you’re off to expanding your business. Even if you’re employing virtual workers or in-house staff, it is [...]