An hour’s work – Open and sort the mail for the week

Jul 15
2009

After hearing about these people Minky has been having a bit of a sulk – and has taken to wearing shorts to the office!

One of our clients has all his company mail delivered to a UK mailing address at Denby House, where my office is. We filter out the junk, pay in his cheques and send him (via email) the important bits, so he only deals with the items that are vital to his business, saving him time and money. He gets a great service, improved cash flow because he doesn’t have to wait for his cheques to get to him before they get paid in and an extra hour on the beach – he’s based in Southern Europe!

If anything critical turns up (like bank cards or cheque books) then we post them over straight away, but for his general post we just bundle it all up once in a while and send it.

I was asked on a forum about mailing addresses a little while back – the person posting felt that it might be unethical to hide where your business is. My opinion (and that’s all it is) is that by having a mailing address you are providing a method of contacting you by post, nothing more – it’s no different to having someone answer your phone… (which we can also look after for you)

Doesn’t this sound like an ideal way to run your business? – I’m starting to like the sound of “our Florida office”
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Minky’s Musings

May 21
2009

Minky gets about a bit, so if he comes across anything worth sharing we’ll post it up here. This could be useful business tips, opinions on the news or the things that annoy him.

He’s also been asked about his hourly rate and what his customers can expect to get for their money. We charge almost all of our services “by the hour” so this got us thinking – What can we do for our clients in about an hour? We have decided to do a series of posts where we hope to give you some ideas of the kind of things we do.

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