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🌟 Protect Your Time and Sanity with Clear Office Hours! 🌟
As an online business owner, especially one handling delegated work from clients, setting and maintaining office hours is crucial for avoiding burnout and ensuring high-quality work. Learn how to establish boundaries that protect your personal time while keeping your business running smoothly.
🌟 Key Takeaways:
Set Defined Office Hours: Customize your hours to align with your client base while ensuring personal time. Consistency is key—consider working from 10 AM to 6 PM, Monday through Friday.
Communicate Clearly: Use email signatures, onboarding processes, and automated responses to set expectations with clients about your availability.
Enforce the Boundary: Use scheduling tools like Trello, Monday, or Asana to manage tasks and prevent last-minute disruptions. Turn off notifications after hours and delegate urgent matters to a team member.
Tune in to learn how setting office hours can help you maintain balance, improve productivity, and create a structured work environment that benefits both you and your clients! 🌟
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Life is busy and there's just so many things to remember. What tools do you use to help you keep on top of ALL the things?
It's easy to react or respond quickly to messages and the like. It's better to do that mindfully. That's why I try to Practice The Pause.
It's Christmas Eve, so Charly is taking a break from the usual tech tips to bring you something special. If you've ever wondered what would happen if the classic Christmas poem met the world of IT, wonder no more. In this festive episode, Charly performs a tech-themed retelling of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, complete with firewalls, backups, SSL certificates, and a very special visit from Saint Nick the sysadmin.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ A fun, festive tech parody perfect for sharing with your team
📌 Why even Santa needs strong passwords and two-factor authentication
🛡️ A lighthearted reminder that your backups and firewalls should be sorted before the holidays
✅ Season's greetings from the Ask Charly Leetham team
Merry Christmas from Charly and the team!
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Many small business owners spent 2025 chasing the latest tech trends while the boring fundamentals quietly kept their businesses running. In this year-end review, Charly reflects on what tech actually delivered results, what disappointed, and the valuable lessons learned along the way.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ Why properly configured backups, DNS, and regular updates remained the unsung heroes of business tech throughout 2025
✅ Tools that delivered on their promises, including password managers and email authentication systems like SPF and DKIM
📌 The disappointments of the year, from AI overpromises to platforms prioritising their interests over users
🛡️ Why building your business on rented land remains a significant risk and what preventable failures taught us
📌 The key insight that consistency beats perfection, and why systems and processes matter more than perfect technology
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Many business owners start the new year with great intentions, only to fall back into the same tech chaos by February. Instead of making resolutions you will abandon, consider building tech traditions that become recurring practices throughout the year.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ Annual reviews that actually save money, including subscription audits, password checks, backup testing, and domain renewal verification
📌 Quarterly and monthly maintenance tasks like website health checks, broken link testing, backup verification, and data cleanup routines
🛡️ Weekly habits for email management and software updates that prevent overwhelming backlogs
✅ How to build systems that stick by using calendar blocks, attaching new habits to existing routines, and documenting your processes
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