Do you have a book or a blog that needs writing?
June 30, 2008
Interacting with your clients and customers on the internet is the latest technique employed in internet marketing. There’s many ways to communicate with readers: newsletters, voting polls, and now the most often used, blogs.
There are barriers (for some people) to writing blogs. People can be scared of technology and don’t know how to set one up, don’t have enough time, can’t type and think it will take forever, or just don’t know where to start.
There are a number of resources to help you get started with blogging. First and foremost, just give up on the typing aspect. Let Document Direct transcribe your blog articles using digital dictation. And while we’re at it, if you need help setting up and posting onto your blog site, why not let us do that for you too. Contact us now to ask us to help you.
- To find out more about blogging click here to visit Better Business Blogging
- If you ever suffer from writer’s block then coaching from Lonely Furrow Company can help you
Is a recession about to bite you on the bum?
June 26, 2008
There is some debate amongst our local business community that a recession is actually looming ahead of us. Some say that we’re being far too negative and only those who are playing at the top of their game will win the plenty of business that’s out there. Others are more conservative and some have already confirmed that the recession really started in September 2007 and that their predictions are coming true.
Are you worried about the recession that’s looming and costs spiralling out of control? Have you given any thought to how you can keep control of rising costs and possible reduction in income? It’s a sad thing to say, but salary costs are one of the first items to consider cutting and when redundancies are ahead that’s not good for anybody’s business. How can your business survive without its people?
Planning to outsource can give more cost savings than perhaps originally considered. Here’s what can be saved if the typing work of just one secretary was outsourced. You fill in the blanks.
- Salary £ [include bonus scheme, pension, holiday and sick pay]
- Square footage (rent) £
- Insurances £
- Desk, chair, computer £
- Software licences £
- Management Time £ [a difficult one, how much time is spent managing others?]
If you would like a consultation with us to find out how easy outsourcing can be, please click here.
What is the turnaround time for your typing?
June 13, 2008
Audio dictation to your secretary is now much faster with digital dictation systems. But is your typing being produced faster than normal. We want to know what your average turnaround time is for your work. We’ve been amazed to hear that some people can actually wait up to 3 days to get their typing done. Take our poll and leave any comments below - we’d love to hear from you.
Loading ...Digital dictation is fast, but has online typing met your deadline?
June 12, 2008
The speed of delivery of your digital dictation to your secretary has improved the turnaround times of your work. Has this change affected your deadlines? We want to know if your deadlines have become more urgent because work can now be delivered instantantly. We also want to know if we up to the task? Don’t be shy - we need to know - are we meeting your deadlines? We want to hear from you so please leave your comments below.
Word processing and Practical Law Precedents
June 9, 2008
A good legal secretary will have excellent word processing skills which will help them understand how various documents and templates are set up so they can amend and alter the document without losing any formatting to font, paragraph spacing, numbering and automatic cross referencing. It’s vital that the document is presented clearly and consistently so that the law firm is represented professionally.
An example of how a legal document is formatted is a precedent from Practical Law.
- The document is split into sections: for the front sheet, table of contents and the body of the document.
- In each section the footer text will differ slightly and page numbering should start after the table of contents.
- The table of contents will automatically update to the text created in the body of the document by pressing the F9 key.
- Automatic numbering to paragraphs is applied using heading styles.
- Cross referencing throughout the document is applied which will automatically update if paragraphs are changed or added to.
Learning how to link and unlink headers and footers, create, amend and apply heading styles and insert and update cross referencing can easily be done with our online training courses.
Access to your own web-based learning course, online books and a mentoring service will give you everything you need to know to learn advanced word processing techniques.
In typical Document Direct style, we’ll arrange for you to have a sample course so you can try before you buy. Click here to learn more and to choose your sample course.
