I recently wrote a post about setting up a home office space and how a Brateck monitor arm made a huge difference in ergonomics and productivity. The reason behind buying the arm was to mount a Samsung S24F350F 24″ LED monitor and be able to position it perfectly when seated at the desk. The monitor has 75×75 […]
Maximising home office desk space and increasing productivity with a monitor arm
I keep myself busy with a bunch of personal projects. Some of them take up a few short hours of work a week on a laptop. The beauty of a laptop is being able to work from anywhere around the house, be it the couch, dining room table or on the floor of the lounge. […]
Are your financial goals for the year on track?
For many, the start of a New Year brings a time for reflection on what has been, what is now and what will be. A number of other things may follow and more often than not, it includes penning down resolutions for the year ahead. These can be wide and varied with one of the […]
FreshBooks cloud accounting now even better with double entry accounting
FreshBooks is a great tool for carrying out certain business functions such as creating professional looking invoices, managing and organising expenses and tracking time, just to name a few. These types of features work well for small businesses and for the most part, fulfil their requirements from an accounting standpoint. But, as a business grows, […]
Why it may be a good idea to buy up your travel insurance excess
Back in 2015, I came across an interesting travel insurance statistic; out of the 2.2 million Kiwis who travelled overseas the previous year, 15% of them did not take out travel insurance > It pays to take out travel insurance. With the way that the world has become more ‘uncertain’ since then and with increased […]
The FreshBooks cloud accounting software 50% off discount offer
If you haven’t already heard about FreshBooks, it is the small business cloud accounting software solution of choice because it makes accounting tasks painless. It makes billing a breeze and at the end of the day leaves you with more time to run and grow your business. Update Get 50% off for 3 months on […]
File your business expenses on the go with FreshBooks
We all at one point or another find ourselves thinking about or looking for ways of freeing up more time. One such time hack that I am a proponent of is the two-minute rule: if you can complete a task in two minutes, just get it done there and then If there is something that […]
How to get $50 compensation from Vector for a Auckland power outage
A couple of weeks ago at the end of a day’s work, we got home at 6 pm to a power cut. Earlier during the day, we had received a message from Vector (New Zealand’s largest electricity and gas distributor) notifying us that there would be an outage in our area. Given the time of […]
Saving money by getting rid of a landline you don’t use
About a month or so ago, we found ourselves in a situation where we had to have a face to face conversation with one of our service providers. During the conversation, we uncovered a discrepancy with one of the policies that we had with them. At the time, the customer service consultant suggested that we […]