If you are besieged by time zapping tasks, read on to find 10 things to delegate that will allow you more freedom:

1. Bookkeeping: Entrust your bookkeeping to that special number cruncher
2. Scheduling and Contact Management: Hand over office, event and calendar scheduling to a detail oriented guru
3. Contact follow-up after events: Allocate pre, during and post event follow up to an event pro
4. Web updates: Designate managing web edits and updates to the techno gang
5. Get Marketing: Let Cybertary create your marketing tools and implement regular marketing mailings for you!
6. Article submission: Utilize a Cybertary to submit articles for you 
7. Website optimization: Dole out anything web centric to the web gang
8. Blog posts and optimization: Hand off time zapping blog posting to a Cybertary
9. Reports, Graphs and Charts...oh my! Pass on reporting and tracking to a detailed, administrative type
10. Phone calls:  Let a Cybertary handle the phones while you optimize handling your callers!

iPods at work aren't just for tuning out your co-workers anymore. Many highly regarded companies are promoting efficiency in the workplace by using iPods as training tools, sales instruments, mobile learning devices, promotional incentives, communications pods and more. Using audio and video files and an array of available adapters and docks, the iPod can be greatly utilized for business. Their small size and great capacity (the Nano, available in 4GB and 8GB models, is just 6.55mm thin and the Classic, with up to 160GB, still fits in your hand) make them ideal for business people on the go.

Here are ten ways that small business owners can jump on the "iPod for business" bandwagon and make their work lives more efficient, which, as you know, only makes your entire life that much more fun too:

Do you have a pile of sticky notes with client contact information scribbled on them or business cards taped to your computer monitor?  Now is the perfect time to get them all organized into a contact database. A contact database can be created with a contact management tool such as Outlook, ACT, and Excel or by utilizing a card scanner to scan your company contacts business cards into your computer.

What if you don't have a database at all?  You can purchase a mailing list from a source such as http://www.infousa.com/, and receive hundreds of contacts that match your ideal client demographic, at a surprisingly low cost.

Cybertary can also help you create a database from scratch with some very targeted internet research, or convert an existing paper contact list to something electronic.  And frankly...once you go digital, you just can't go back to paper.

Now that you have a digital database, what do you do with it?

If you have ever considered business ownership, read below for this must-attend event!

Is Business Ownership Right For You?

If you’ve ever considered starting a business, you don’t want to miss this FREE event!

Join us to learn more about:
• What it takes to be your own boss—even in this economic climate
• How to evaluate and choose the right business opportunity that “fits” you.
• Financing options and where to find funding
• Resources to help you succeed

Hear the first hand experience from a local franchisee of Cybertary and how they left the corporate world behind to start their own business.

Appetizers and refreshments provided.

When:    November 3, 2010
                6:00-7:30pm

Where:  Folsom Chamber of Commerce
               Ambassador Room
               200 Wool Street
               Folsom, CA 95630

Sponsored by: Cybertary & The Entrepreneur's Source

Please RSVP: Stephanie Craft, 530.389.2700, esource@hughes.net
OR Tina Angell, 916.303.4550, tina.angell@cybertary.com

When you need a software CD or the software license information, do you dread the mad search you must embark upon to find them? Do you have a shelf full of old software boxes taking up space? Or are there software jewel boxes and loose CDs in a drawer or box? Worse yet, are you losing or damaging your valuable software CDs because you just don't have a designated way to store them? We have a solution that will save you space and keep your software and license keys handy and safe.

It's simple really. Just get yourself a CD binder at an office supply store and insert all of your software CDs in it. Then, you can then either cut out the license key from the box and slip it into the pocket with the CD or write the key number on the CD itself with a fine-tip permanent marker.

As Cybertaries, we need to stay on the cutting edge of technology with the latest software at our fingertips. This is a picture of our software binder at Cybertary Headquarters that holds 128 CDs in 3 inches of shelf space. They are sorted by software type (Operating System, Microsoft, Utilities, Graphics, Microsoft and Other). All of our software is easily accessible, protected, and organized. Pretty nice and easy, huh? 

 Is Business Ownership Right For You?

If you’ve ever considered starting a business, you don’t want to miss this FREE event!

Join us to learn more about:
• What it takes to be your own boss—even in this economic climate
• How to evaluate and choose the right business opportunity that “fits” you.
• Financing options and where to find funding
• Resources to help you succeed

Hear the first hand experience from a local franchisee of Cybertary and how they left the corporate world behind to start their own business.

Appetizers and refreshments provided.

When:    November 3, 2010
                6:00-7:30pm

Where:  Folsom Chamber of Commerce
               Ambassador Room
               200 Wool Street
               Folsom, CA 95630

Sponsored by: Cybertary & The Entrepreneur's Source

Please RSVP: Stephanie Craft, 530.389.2700, esource@hughes.net
OR Tina Angell, 916.303.4550, tina.angell@cybertary.com

How to Sniff Out an Email Hoax or Scam 

These days there is quite a surplus of email hoaxes. Just when you think no one can outsmart you, you receive the heartfelt email from a mother about her child who just needs a little money toward a big operation. And you want to cave. But it's probably a hoax. Even worse, it's probably a hoax designed to swindle you out of some of your hard-earned dough. Here are some tips for detecting Email Hoaxes.

Email Hoaxes
It's probably an Email Hoax if:

• It includes any of the following or similar statements:
  • "Forward this to everyone you know!"
  • "Forward this to get a FREE..." or
  • "This is NOT a hoax."
• The text seems manipulative or overly persuasive, emotional or desperate in tone.
• The email makes serious claims or gives emphatic warnings you cannot verify through a reputable source.
• In the case of an email reportedly from a verifiable company or well-known person (like Bill Gates), there is no mention of the content on the company's website (do not follow links inside the email to verify them; they might be fake websites-read about Phishing below)
• It's packed with fear-inducing warnings or information (always verify crime or health scare emails with a reputable law enforcement or medical associations).
• There is no standard professional signature from the sender.
• The sender has gone overboard with exclamation points (!!!!!) or UPPERCASE LETTERS.
• You are promised large sums of money.
• Your common sense tells you it's probably a hoax.
• The message seems too good to be true.
• The email has been forwarded over and over (and over).

Did you know that your computer can maintain itself while you sleep?  The Windows Task Scheduler is able to automate computer tasks to run automatically, anytime that it is convenient for you!  You can set the Task Scheduler to run utilities such as backups, defragmentation, utilities, virus scans, junk file purging, scripts, documents, or any of your other programs to run at the time and frequency you specify.

Scheduled Tasks starts each time you start Windows XP and runs in the background.  Tasks can run daily, weekly, monthly, or at certain events (such as system startup).  You can also customize how a task will run at a scheduled time.  If your computer is asleep at the scheduled time, Task Scheduler can even wake up your computer to run the scheduled task.

To schedule a new task:

1.    Open Scheduled Tasks (click Start, click All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Scheduled Tasks).
   
2.    Double-click Add Scheduled Task.

 Then just follow the instructions in the Scheduled Task Wizard.

Have more tasks than you can handle? Contact Cybertary today!

Since most of us spend so many hours in our offices every week, it's important to consider the many options and alternatives available for creating a greener workplace. Don't worry-we're not going to suggest you start composting your coffee grounds and lunch waste...not yet anyway. Instead, we'll give you some simple everyday tips for making your office more eco-friendly. After all, being socially responsible not only feels good, but it can also work wonders for sustaining our lovely planet.


Eco-friendly options and alternatives are often simpler and less expensive than what we're already doing or planning to do-and sometimes healthier too. When it comes to contemplating greener living, apply these three easy practices wherever possible: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Once you take the first few steps toward greener living and working, the ideas for reducing, reusing, and recycling will keep coming. To get you started, here are some easy tips for creating a greener office environment right now.

• Bring a mug for your coffee or tea
• Bring a cup for water (those tiny paper ones were trees once)
• Bring silverware and dishware
• No more sandwich baggies; make the switch to reusable containers
• Don't forget your cloth napkin!

Your Eco-Friendly Coffee Break
Invest in a good coffee machine and some great beans for the office. You'll save time, gas, and money on Starbuck's runs-not to mention a paper cup a day. Enjoy coffee whenever you want it, and use your "coffee break" for a nice mind-clearing walk outside instead.