Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Services | Posted on 27-11-2011
I’m excited to announce that we’re growing again, and since each new tribe member brings new skills, we’ll be offering a new service: transcription. I’ve been seeing some pretty shocking work coming from inexpensive transcription services staffed by people who are practicing English as a new second language. As impressive as it is that they can do the work, they lack the experience to understand our idioms and business terms. The result: entertaining babble for you and I…not so much for the client.
We now offer quality transcription at very competitive prices. The work will be done by highly literate native English speakers who will also provide executive summaries and an outline of the high points as an option.
Who uses transcribers? People who subscribe to a webcast but don’t have time to listen to the whole thing. Executives who record meetings and need minutes. Videographers doing collaborative editing. Researchers, lecturers, and scholars. Interviewers. Authors. Doctors. You?
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Services | Posted on 18-06-2011
If you own your own small business, you’re probably familiar with Vistaprint – they pretty much own the market in affordable business cards. It’s never quite as inexpensive as you imagine it will be though, by the time you decide to upgrade to that irresistible design, add a back side, make it glossy…oh, and shipping. Ugh – shipping
Well, Vistaprint has just upped its game. I recently received a promotion in the mail for 500 Premium Business Cards for $10. I added a back side to my card and paid $13 for 500 cards. I thought that was pretty good, but then I found 500 Premium Business Cards for $3.99. I don’t know which deal will be better for you – if you try the $3.99 deal and shipping makes it come out too comes out higher than $13, OR you do the $10 deal and don’t get offered a free upgrade to glossy finish, enter “newlook2011″ in the promotional code box at checkout and you’ll probably get the deal I got. Worth a try, if you have the patience. ( And I get credits if you use the links, so please do!)
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Services | Posted on 05-06-2011
The Tribe is proud to recommend Ruby Receptionists®. We’ve hitched our star to this one-of-a-kind high quality service because it fills our clients’ needs like nothing else. Nothing frustrates a potential customer like not being able to reach your company, live and in person. Enter Ruby. For less that a tenth of the price of an on-site receptionist, you can have a bright, personable Ruby Virtual Receptionist answer your calls and respond to them in a courteous, helpful manner. Ruby combines bright, talented receptionists with innovative technology to create a seamless experience. Your customers will never know they haven’t reached your business. We think Ruby is the only way to go and will be affiliating with them for all of our clients’ reception needs.
In their own words:
Not every company or busy professional can afford to hire an on-site assistant. Some businesses don’t operate in a traditional office setting. But almost everyone will agree that missed telephone calls equal missed opportunities.
Most alternatives, however, are less than desirable. Answering services can sound impersonal and their staffs perform only the simplest tasks. When an estimated 60% of all consumers become angry or frustrated using an automated telephone, machines are simply out of the question.
With Ruby®, you can enjoy all the benefits a professional receptionist provided for a fraction of the price of an on-site employee.
Not only can we reduce your business costs, we can actually improve your bottom line. With a team of receptionists always available, we never take a lunch break or a vacation. We don’t get sick or arrive late. We never miss a phone call, and you never miss an opportunity for new business.
Now you can sign up for Ruby through Tribe of Admins! Just click on the button below and a new window will open on Ruby’s site. This won’t affect your cost, experience or relationship with Ruby—it just lets them know that the Tribe loves their work!
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Services, Uncategorized | Posted on 03-10-2010
This site claims that it converts PDF files to image files for free, and it does something sort of like that. I put in a test PDF and definitely got back an image. It just wasn’t an image of my original document – it was someone’s staff list, full of confidential information. I tested it with another document, just to be sure…yep…same thing. Just imagine where your confidential information might end up!
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Services | Posted on 07-08-2010
Still loading your documents onto a flash drive and trotting your aching Prada knockoffs down 42 flights, across the lobby to a different elevator bank, up 15 flights and across the floor to your colleague because the company email and collab site has a size limit…a mini, skinny, obnoxiously small limit?
You need an unlimited online data storage service. The one I use is Mozy. Another reputable site is Elephant Drive (link leads to free trial). Mozy has more bells and whistles and is well reviewed everywhere, but if you have a make and want to do automated backups, go with Elephant Drive. You can upload your document to a secure site, give your colleague a password, and he can download the entire document – no fuss.
When I’ve used this:
- Working from home: I needed to get a document to my manager who was in another country.
- The email security software stripped the images out of my document.
- My colleague was across the country and I’d left a big pile of hair on the floor trying to find a way to share a huge document.
- Sending a document to a small business owner with a small limit on the size of her emails.
- Sending a document to a colleague on vacation whose email was filling up fast – I just sent her a note on where to find it.
- Sharing with several colleagues. This keeps multiple copies of large documents off the often over-stressed company mail servers.
- Working out of the office with no access to my drive – but there it is on Mozy, accessible from anywhere (yea!).
What Can You Absolutely Not Afford to Lose?
I assume you already back up…but what if the house burns down? Seriously. Houses do. No, really…they do. Or what if, like me, your computer dies and then you discover that the backup drive was only pretending to work?
For less than a couple of lattes each month, you can have unlimited off site storage in a safe, secure data vault. My recommendation is to either upload only that which is truly important to you, or schedule it to backup while you sleep. Big uploads to the web are slow, but a couple of gigabytes here and there are a breeze. Some of the things I’ve stashed offsite:
- Financial records
- Household inventory (see above…in case the house burns down)
- Photos
- Music
What would you save?
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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Services | Posted on 20-06-2009
A new service is being offered by the tribe: copy scrubbing. Here’s an excerpt from the page:
There’s nothing wrong with using idiomatic English; it’s blatant embarrassing errors that I’m complaining about. It’s sloppy. It reflects badly on you. Stop it.
Make your teachers proud. Click here now.
You haven’t clicked yet?? Do I need to explain? Bad grammar = lost sales.
See what it’s all about here.
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