Your customers never have to know that you operate your business from different locations around the world. With the help of the internet, outsourcing, and many other types of services, you can run the show from anywhere.

Financing

Your business will never make it if you don’t bring in any income. With the help of online banking and other related services, it’s not that hard to manage your finances from out of the country.

Invoicing

When you email your invoices, you should check out CurdBee to manage it all. Since it’s an online application, it can be used from any PC, which is highly valuable for businesses that are on the move. It’s absolutely amazing and makes invoicing pretty simple. If you get paid by the thousands, you can also customize invoices with several services like AcceptPay and PayPal. Major players use vendor payment systems which contradicts the demand for invoicing. For smaller clients, you’ll email your own created invoice when needed.

Receiving Payments

Service providers like AcceptPay and PayPal offer the option for customers to pay by credit and debit cards. PayPal is a universal payment tool, since it avoids international banking fees and converts any type of currency. Bank transfers come in second place, and you should use them as much as you can. If you are dealing with UK-based customers, you should try to receive payments by bank transfer since it is unrestricted, cheaper and faster than any other option. Your main income should be direct deposits to your business account, because they are generally guaranteed payments (bank transfers can still be reversed if they originate from a stolen bank account).

Depositing Cialis Checks/Money Orders

I know it’s not as common today, but receiving them in the mail still happens, and it’s the hardest thing to manage when you’re a location independent business. You should use mailbox forwarding companies to automatically send in checks/money orders to your business account for almost free. Depending on the bank you use, depositing a check from anywhere is really easy. Otherwise, business folks who are abroad will usually send the check to a family member, friend, or business associate in their city, who can deposit it for them. Most banks are OK with checks made out to you no matter who deposits it.

Bills, bills, bills

One of the greatest perks for internet based businesses is the amount of bills you have to pay. You don’t have to worry about rent, utilities, and a wide range of other expenses you have to manage if you work out of a regular office space. And what expenses you do have, you can use your business debit or credit card, and setup automatic payments for those few expenses.

Document Organization

I am a big fan of Google. I use Google Apps as my foundation, so this includes Google Docs, Gmail and Google sites for the majority of my business admin. Anything else, I download onto my laptop but I leave the rest ‘in the cloud’. I love Google Docs and Calendars to sync up schedules and any collaborative documents we are working on.

Social Media

Originally used by the “hipster crowd,” Facebook is a great tool for staying in touch with family, friends, and associates. I use it quite heavily. Twitter is another formidable contender if used properly. You have to crawl through some spammers before you establish actual connections, but it must be done.

Careful searches and hashtags can turn up information you actually want, eventually helping out other followers, or building valuable business connections. LinkedIn is the last stop on the mainstream sites, although plenty of people don’t really talk about it as an important tool. Creating a profile equipped with dozens of recommendations will increase your awareness through Google, and acts as a casual resume. Some of the groups are full of valuable information, and partaking in the conversations can lead to new opportunities.

Escrow

Escrow is a valuable service for long-distance transactions. It holds the funds in an account until all parties come to a final conclusion that is satisfactory for all. Escrow helps to increase buyer confidence in your business. Check out Escrow for more information.

Document Signing

Most internet based businesses have a hard time getting paperwork approved by all people in different locations. EchoSign is a service that handles all that stuff for you by sending paperwork, acquiring signatures, copying, delivering, and finishing up the final product.

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