PayPal & AlertPay

PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet.

PayPal is the safer, easier way to make an online payment or set up a merchant account.

AlertPay provides a safe and secure method for consumers and businesses with email to send and receive internet

Advantages & Disadvantages of Virtual Office

Advantages

• Environmental benefits from not driving a motor vehicle in slow-moving traffic and polluting the air
• Reduction in traffic congestion
• Reduction in stress levels from not having to drive in congested traffic to and from work
• Time saved not commuting to an office
• Monetary benefits from savings in gas, wear and tear on your car, business clothing, and lunches out
• Benefits from being able to manage your time more effectively
• Productivity benefits from being able to work when you are most productive
• Health benefits of being able to eat a better diet that includes less fast food
• Opportunities to get physical exercise when needed mentally
• Reduced stress benefits
• Benefit of living a more balanced life
• A more relaxing work environment
• More opportunities to hire part-time or contract workers
• A larger pool of employee applicants because location isn't as important

Disadvantages

• Lack of face-to-face communication increases chances of miscommunications or misunderstandings
• Technical difficulties hindering communications or work progress
• Feelings of separation or disassociation among employees
• Less camaraderie among workers meaning possibilities for less cohesive work teams
• Problems separating your free time from your work time because your work is always "there"
• Less convenient to run errands at lunch time
• Feelings of isolation if you are always home alone
• Lack of support - both administrative and managerial

Virtual Office

• The company has a physical location, but employees have no assigned offices. Employees may have lockers and "check out" a desk for the day, they may set up an "office" in their hotel, etc. This term is distinct from "Virtual Company" which refers to companies that have no one physical location at all, no collection of inventory that's held by the company, etc.

• A Virtual Office is a location which allows many people doing business to share an office address and business machines. The facility often includes mail support, telephone banks, fax machines, copiers, computers, and sometimes even answering services.

Project management tools

A lot of software is available on the internet to help you run your projects. On this page we will provide some pointers on where to get applications for free. And let me start by saying: free is as good as any kind available.

There are three types in existence:

1) desktop applications,
2) web-based services and
3) web-based systems.

Free desktop software for project management

This type of applications are installed on your PC. Think in the line of MS Office and MSProject. A nice free software package in this category is GanttProject. This actually looks like an MS Project knock off.

Web-based services

By this I mean websites that offer an on-line internet application that supports project management. You don't have to install anything, you just signup for a service that is running on someone else's server.

An example is iTeamWork, which is kind of a collaboration tool, where you can define projects and tasks, assign people to them, track and trace them, view to-do lists, etc.

Web-based systems

The difference between web-based services and systems is that with the latter you do have to install software on your own hardware. As open source development is taking more and more ground, some of these applications are quite powerful.

The are all more collaboration tools the just plain project management tools. So, if you just need something to create a nice Gantt chart, don't use this category, as it would be overkill.