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The Freelancealot Herald

For Small-business Owners, Virtual Assistants, and Freelancers

Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Tag: small business

You’ve ditched the plastic bags, how about trying ‘eco fonts’?

Posted on March 20 2019 | by Tracy Shorrock
Using fountain pens and bottled ink for the environment

Eco fonts are cleverly designed to reduce the amount of ink required while keeping your message crystal clear. For example, Ryman Eco, a free font from retailer Ryman, uses an average of 33% less ink than standard fonts.

Create Free Graphics for Your Blog or Social Media with Canva

Posted on February 11 2018 | by Tracy Shorrock
Stay Apt Web Services from Freelancealot

There’s just no stopping it! It is definitely time to update the operating system on my Mac Mini but what to do about the Adobe software I use for online graphics and printed projects (Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, InDesign)? To be sure everything works I’d need to move to Adobe’s Creative Cloud, but £596 a year […]

Top Office Kit: The Perfect Router for a Virtual Assistant / SoHo

Posted on April 7 2017 | by Tracy Shorrock

Having a secure, fast, and reliable connection to the Internet is the A1 priority of a virtual assistant business—without it we can’t operate.

FREE 2014! Desktop Picture from Freelancealot

Posted on January 2 2014 | by Tracy Shorrock
2014! Desktop Picture

Following up on our previous post ‘Freelance Business Support: Work Smarter in 2014!’ and picking up from our ‘FREE Desktop Picture for 2012’ our graphic designer has designed a desktop picture for the hardworking computers in the Freelancealot office.

Freelance Business Support—Work Smarter in 2014!

Posted on December 10 2013 | by Tracy Shorrock
Overwhelmed Businessman

Whether it be fine-tuning their work/life balance, keeping their running costs down, or ensuring they have the right people with the right skills and experience, there’s a simple solution: make good use of freelance business support services.

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Acknowledgments

Thank you to Euphrosene Labon, freelance author and artist for the illustration of the Herald Trumpeter.

We use Capsule CRM to keep organised. It's a great tool that integrates with our Email Newsletter provider MailChimp.

Capsule CRM for Small Businesses

Voipfone.co.uk provides our VoIP telephony service and, together with our Snom phone and Draytek router, keeps us connected to the outside world.

Voipfone.co.uk, voip communications service

And for giving us the excuse to daydream, we thank you Edgar Allan Poe for this line in Eleonora: 'They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.'

RSS Smallbusiness.co.uk

  • Government Bounce Back Loan for your small business
  • Bounce Back Loan repayment calculator – how much will your loan cost?
  • What happens if I can’t repay my Bounce Back Loan?
  • Which banks offer Bounce Back Loans? – how to find a BBL lender
  • Government to launch £520m Help to Grow scheme for SMEs

RSS Journalism.co.uk

  • Tip: Become an authentic TV news presenter
  • How did you get your first job as an audience development producer?
  • Webinars and chatbots: inside Nikkei's B2B subscription strategy
  • Tip: How to use TikTok to reach new audiences
  • Tip: Pick the right platform for remote podcasting

RSS Designshack.net

  • 50+ Best Fonts for Logo Design
  • 25+ Best Marketing Plan & Marketing Strategy PowerPoint (PPT) Templates
  • 30+ Best Watercolor Photoshop Actions & Effects
  • 40+ Best Vintage & Retro Photoshop Actions & Effects
  • 20 Stylish PowerPoint Color Schemes
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