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WinWeb's OnlineOffice 5.1 Released For Small & Home Business Startup

June 24, 2009

Today WinWeb released version 5.1 of it’s on-demand Software as a Service application OnlineOffice. In this release the web-builder module and the online shop module have been upgraded and made easier to work with.

This release follows WinWeb’s recent announcement of BusinessServices, real business services integrated into the OnlineOffice, like bookkeeping, call answering, mail hold and business address service for the small home business startup market. OnlineOffice traditionally includes modules for accounting, invoicing, quotation writing, business and cash-flow planning, web-hosting, web-builder, online shop, email, fax and SMS services, 10 GByte of online data and back-up storage, to name but a few of it’s highly integrated micro business infrastructure modules.

WinWeb’s OnlineOffice has been available for over 10 years in it’s current form and focuses exclusively on the micro business sector – the one to ten person business. OnlineOffice is currently the most cost-effective one-stop-shop for small home business startup owners globally.

Find out more about WinWeb’s OnlineOffice.

WinWeb Aided Over 10,000 'WinWeb Security' Virus Victims.

June 21, 2009

While the ‘winweb security’ virus and malware had nothing to do with winweb.com, we still helped over 10,000 individuals by sending out uninstall instructions and information.

Keeping your anti-virus software up-to-date could not be more important. The number of viruses is ever increasing and nobody is safe from attack. Most victims we helped had no up-to-date anti-virus software on their Microsoft Windows computers.

This virus has almost run it’s course, and we understand, that all good anti-virus software is now equipped to deal with this menace.

Read more @ sme-blog.com

Starting A Small Home Business Without Beaking The Bank Or Losing Your Pension

June 20, 2009

As more and more people are contemplating a small home business startup, the question of financing the entrepreneurial lifestyle can leave you seriously out of pocket. But how much money do you really need to start a small home business? How can you estimate what the financial risk is, to your bank account or your pension?

Business planning can help future business owners to asses the cost, the risk and the financial upside of any planned business venture. There are three simple steps to follow:

1. Set your goal – what is it you want to achieve? Maybe you want to make £5,000 a month or £1 million per month. This will decide how you need to run your small business startup.

2. Plan your cash-flow – once you have decided on a business idea, you can find out if your business can give you the the financial return you were looking for. Whatever you want to do, manufacture or provide services, cash-flow planning will help you to work out how much turnover you can make in a month, take off the overheads and you know if you make enough money to full-fill your business goal.

3. Do a SWOT analysis – working out what your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threads are, will help you to focus on your your strengths and opportunities, increasing your chance of business success.

All the necessary tools to plan your small or home business start-up, are part of the business planning module inside WinWeb’s OnlineOffice. If you are not sure how to use them, just contact our 24/7 help-desk, we will be delighted to plan your business with you. You could even use our free One-To-One tuition to help you work out if your business idea can succeed.

Learn more about WinWeb’s OnlineOffice Business Planning.

More Than 70 % of SMEs Still In Need Of Web Presence To Join Global Market.

June 19, 2009

While many of us ’surf’ the Internet everyday, tweeting or socializing on facebook or linkedin, more than 70 % of small and home businesses have no online presence, like a web-site, online shop or a blog.

While the motto of the past was “Think Global – Do Local”, this is certainly no longer the case for any business. More and more consumers search on the Internet for suppliers, local or national. In such an environment small home businesses will suffer without a web presence and lose out.

WinWeb’s web-hosting and site builder software, with integrated online shop and blog, makes it easy for any business owner to be online and to take advantage of the global market space that is the Internet.

To make it even easier, WinWeb now offers a complete website setup, including a domain name for your business, so you do not have to get involved in the technical details of setting up a web presences yourself.

Another option is our free One-To-One introductory tuition, you can get our helpdesk staff to help you to set a web-site up for your business.

Running a business, without getting drowned in admin work has never been easier – get your business online today.

Learn more about WinWeb Web Hosting.

Virtual Assistant Should Have Head In The Cloud.

June 18, 2009

When WinWeb CEO Stefan Töpfer puts a service request for a virtual assistant (VA) to help with a professional Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on Twitter, things start to unravel for one busy VA.

She contacted him back over twitter within minutes to offer her service, very professional, fast and to the point. When Stefan asked for some sample work, again she replied within in minutes that she would send a sample presentation as soon as she would be back home.

Now, Stefan was even more impressed, she was obviously ‘out & about’ and still kept in contact with her customers. This looked very promising indeed, she is obviously a pro.

This morning however, he received the following email:

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for waiting. Unfortunately my laptop had to go in for repairs today (that’s where I was all day) and they need to send it out. All my work is on my laptop so I am unable to send you an example. Sorry again for keeping you waiting.

Thanks,

This little example shows why virtual assistants need to use Web 2.0 applications, like WinWeb’s OnlineOffice, to keep their data not only safe, but also accessible at all times. This episode has resulted in loss of income, but more importantly may result in loss of data, maybe even customer data.

You may respond and say, well yes she should have a back-up, and maybe she has. The point here is, virtual assistants are busy people, and having to think about data-backup and other mundane IT functions is simply a waste of time, when easy technology exists to automate the tasks.

This is one of the reasons, why we insist that all our virtual assistant partners, who provide you with our business services, use our software and work online, not only so they can use our OnlineOffice, but they keep customers data and their own safe at all time and focus on running their professional business, your admin work.

Learn more about OnlineOffice Data Store.

WinWeb OnlineOffice – The Only One-Stop-Shop For Small Home Business Startup.

June 17, 2009

With last week’s release of WinWeb’s BusinessServices, real business services, like bookkeeping, call handling, business address, etc. OnlineOffice is the leading one-stop-shop for small home business startup owners anywhere.

These services can be ordered online from the website, or when you log in to OnlineOffice. All business services come with an element of free OnlineOffice use. OnlineOffice has been, for a while now, the most comprehensive Micro Business Infrastructure available, with accounting and bookkeeping software, 10 GByte online data store, complete web hosting, blog, online shop, and many other software modules at an unbeatable low price.

OnlineOffice is cheaper than most stand alone accounting & bookkeeping products available on the market today, with much more functionality. While these vendors talk about mash-up technology, they hide the fact, that all these extra ‘mashed up’ modules cost extra money and you will need to get the mashing up done first – not always easy for IT novices.

At WinWeb we believe that IT technology should be transparent, not seen and certainly not heard! For example our online shop and invoicing module is integrated with the accounting software, so nobody has to book any of these transactions again. In the same fashion all the business services are integrated, like payroll, all of the ledger work will be done for you, no need to book anything after we performed the service for you.

No ‘Mash-Up’ needed – just remember, run a business, not an office.

Learn more about WinWeb’s OnlineOffice or WinWeb’s BusinessServices.

WinWeb Releases Fixed-Priced Business Services For Freelancers, Home Businesses & Small Offices.

June 10, 2009

WinWeb today releases fixed-priced business services for the freelancer, home business and small business/office market. These services complement WinWeb’s OnlineOffice and make use of it’s Small Business Infrastructure. While some business services have been part of the OnlineOffice Assistant for some time, these new services will complete the One-Stop-Shop offering for the micro business sector. Every business service includes free access to WinWeb’s OnlineOffice as an additional bonus to our existing or new clients.

WinWeb is the first Software As A Service provider, offering such a comprehensive list of fixed-priced business services world-wide, using cloud-computing technology. Stefan Töpfer, CEO of WinWeb says, “So far we have provided tools, like OnlineOffice, to help our clients to solve their small business problems, now we actually solve these problems for our clients in an integrated way, leaving them to explore their entrepreneurial vision and look after their business, not their admin and IT.”

Services include: bookkeeping, call & fax management, business address, mail hold & forwarding, web site design and maintenance, SEO – search engine optimization, payroll, graphic design, export services, online marketing and PR services, online presenters, online shop setup and maintenance and as before many Pay-As-You-Go services like parcel service, translation service and many more.

In todays fast paced business markets it is essential for business owners to focus on sales and order fulfillment to generate cash-flow. Running a business does not mean you should spend much time on admin or IT chores, since they will not generate revenue for the company. OnlineOffice will generate up to 75% cost savings on IT, combining this with WinWeb’s BusinessServices, will further increase the cost-savings while at the same time free the business owner of 90% of daily admin hassle.

Given that time is the most valuable commodity for most small business owners, this represents a significant increase in productivity and business success potential.

Read more about BusinessServices.

WinWeb CEO calls UK Government broadband commitment "Agenda of Underachieving"

June 3, 2009

WinWeb CEO, Stefan Töpfer, today called the UK government’s commitment to broadband coverage, of 2Mb per second into the UK by 2012, an agenda of underachieving and is extremely damaging for home and small businesses. While the SME sector is responsible for over 50% of UK employment and GDP the government is implementing policies to damage UK home and small business competitiveness even further.

Read the full story @ www.sme-blog.com

WinWeb CloudComputing – Is Your Small Home Business In A Recovery Position?

June 1, 2009

As a small home business owner you are just as interested, as big business, to cut your fixed cost and keep things flexible – that way you can deal with the economic downturn better and it will help you to survive the current recession. But is this the only reason why you would try and get lean and mean?

Bootstrapping your business is not only for times of recession, it is a way to run your business. Outsourcing, say bookkeeping or website design, will not only often result in a better end-products, more importantly it will allow you to focus on your business and get ready for the economic recovery. More and more signs seem to point towards a recovery, being able to benefit from an economic upturn will depend on how ready you are for new business and how efficient your business is using IT.

Cloud computing, like WinWeb’s OnlineOffice 5, helps you to use IT most effectively. Setting up your servers, website, running networks etc. is not the an efficient way to spend your time or deploy IT. Having your IT services in the cloud, has many technical benefits. However, the business benefits, are far more impressive:

• 75 % less IT cost per year
• 90 % less IT hassle
• constant data-backups automatically
• available anytime & anywhere
• ……..

Just to name but a few of the small business benefits. Getting your home business lean and mean for the next recovery was never easier and has never saved your business so much money before. Try it for free, we are sure you will be amazed at how much more efficient and cost-effective your business can be run.

Read more about CloudComputing & OnlineOffice.