Terrace Consulting – 10 years old

Its ten years now since I took the plunge and left the safe world of a regular salary payment to set up Terrace Consulting. Terrace Consulting has taken me on an amazing journey.  I’ve met some wonderful people, some of whom I can now count as friends; I’ve had some exciting assignments; and most of…

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New Year’s resolutions – and email

It’s a good thing I didn’t make a New Year resolution to write a blog each week.  Last year it was my intention to have a weekly blog but I didn’t actually make it a resolution on 1 January 2012.  At the rate I’m going it’s going to be one a month.  However think I…

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What does gardening have in common with filing?

Last weekend I was in the garden cleaning up around the rengarenga lilies that had been home to snails for some time. (If you don’t know these plants, they form low bushes of long fleshy leaves and a myriad of white flowers in spring and summer). As I pulled off shredded leaves that the snails…

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Keeping your electronic files safe

Recently I’ve been working with some small business owners who don’t have any back-up system for their electronic business transactions.  I’m not talking about their financial transactions or stock inventories as they are usually captured in some formal system that is backed up off site or written manually by hand. It’s things like the contact…

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Good habits around email

Last week in this blog I talked about the dreaded email in box and gave you some ideas on how to keep it in control.  I promised

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