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This page provides links to some of the latest and greatest tools available to enhance and advance the mobile lifestyle. These resources will help make your mobile life and business more manageable, efficient, professional, and more enjoyable. From Virtual Office Space, Phone systems, and Receptionists, to Outsourcers, Business Clubs, Travel  and Free Software, whatever your mobile business needs may be… The Art of Mobility starts here.

New Links are being added all of the time, please continue to check back and please feel free to add  your comments suggestions.

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Virtual Phone and Fax Services

RingCentral Mobile

RingCentral Mobile gives small businesses and mobile professionals a more professional image by combining toll free and local numbers with advanced call management features. Set up departments, assign extensions, record greetings, and manage how calls are handled for each extension. Track all incoming/outgoing calls and faxes online. Plans from $9.99/month.

Click here for a Free trial plus 15% off first 3 months.

FreedomVOICE
Is a true pioneer of the virtual phone service industry in the United States and Canada. Since 1996, they have consistently set the bar for small business communications, including toll free virtual phone systems, AdTrakker call capture service for real estate professionals, and FaxFreedom Internet fax service. Their focus is to help entrepreneurs and small businesses create a “big business” image by making cutting edge communications features more affordable.

Use this link to Get Free Number Activation and a 15 Day Free Trial!

My1Voice
Is an award winning service which combines a virtual phone service, a virtual receptionist, smart call-forwarding, enhanced voicemail and call screening in a “cloud” (On-line)-based  solution. Plans run between $10 and $50 per month.

VirtualPBX.com Inc
Virtual PBX Inc. is another leader in the telecomunications’ industry. Their service  lets a company give its remote employees an 800 or local number, so  it looks as if the individuals are working out of an office. The service will allow calls to be routed to any phone number the employee prefers, such as a mobile or even a VoIP number.

Skype for Business
Skype offers more than just VoIP calls. They now offer face-to-face video calls, large file sharing, on-line collaboration and more. The company also offers a Business Control Panel which lets you easily set up employee accounts,  online numbers, allocate credit, and much more.

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Outsourcing

AskSunday
AskSunday is one of the most award winning Virtual Assistant companies in the world. The company was mentioned prominently by Author Tim Ferriss in the 4-Hour work week and has been  featured in Time Magazine  on the Today Show. AskSunday offers Personal, Project and Concierge Assistants for as little as $37.00 per month, and “Dedicated Assistants” for as little as $279.00 per month. Want to bring your productivity to a whole new level? Click here!

Use promotional code SAVE25DA when signing up for their Dedicated Assistant program and receive $25.00 of f your first month.  This link will allow you a 7 day free trial. of their Personal assistant program.

LongerDays.com
Longer Days, based in the US has top flight dedicated personal and business assistants with plans starting at $300.00 per month and a 7 day free trial.

Tasks Every Day
Taskseveryday.com offers highly trained VA’s for $6.98 per hour. They are  more than capable of performing a myriad of tasks from accounting and finance to SEO. From Paralegal work to Research services, if you need something done,  just ask, odds are they can probably handle it. Hours must be purchased in 20 to 40 hour blocks.

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Virtual Office Space

Regus
Operates over 1000 virtual office and business centers across 450 cities in 75 countries around the world,  from Seattle to Taipei.

Alliance Business Centers
Prestigious mailing address at 650 locations in 40 Countries with personalized telephone reception, starting at $100 per month.

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Business Clubs

Business and Networking Clubs allow you to affordibly hold meetings, entertain clients and dine at some of the most prestigious addresses around the world. With one monthly membership fee, you can entertain at multiple clubs. Travel and enjoy the benefits of being treated like a fortune 500 executive while maintaining a small business budget.

Club Corp is a network of 170 private business, country clubs, golf courses, and golf resorts around the world, from Seattle to Mexico and from Boston to Beijing. Also an affiliate network of 350 additional clubs world wide.

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Travel

Gtahotels.com
Gtahotels is a leading online travel distributor specializing in deeply discounted hotel bookings worldwide. Their business model is very different from other online travel shops and enables travel consumers to book deeply discounted accommodations worldwide. They cover over 90,000 hotels in 11,000 cities in 178 countries across Europe, US, Canada, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America & the Pacific Rim. Gtahotels area of coverage grows continually, with new destinations added every month. They even offer a Best Rate Guarantee- If the customer finds the same deal elsewhere online  for less, they will match the other price and refund the customer 100% of the difference

AirBnb.com
Airbnb is one of the most amazing travel accommodations website I’ve ever come across. The site offers nightly Vacation Home and Room rentals in 2,189 cities and 108 countries. Want to stay in at a fully furnished vacation home in Vancouver during the Olympics for $79.00 per night? You can do just  that. How about a Teepee in the Netherlands for $70.00 or a Tropical Tree House in Belize for $150.00 you can do that too.

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Recommended Reading

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
In The World Is Flat author Thomas L. Friedman is not giving you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but rather to get you caught up on the wonders that are already here. By “flat” Friedman means “connected”: the lowering of trade and political barriers and the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution that have made it possible to do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet. This in itself should not be news to anyone but, Globalization 3.0, as he calls it, is driven not by major corporations or giant trade organizations like the World Bank, but by individuals: desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world (especially in India and China) who can compete–and win–not just for low-wage manufacturing and information labor but, increasingly, for the highest-end research and design work as well.

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.
More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content… Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.

Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
Everything has changed. The social media revolution has irreversibly changed the way we live our lives and conduct our business. There are billions of dollars in advertising moving online, waiting to be claimed by whoever can build the best content and communities. Despite this change, most people keep working at jobs that don’t make them happy and businesses continue to ignore the major marketing and public relations benefits that can be found online.

Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
In Trust Agents, two social media veterans show you how to tap into the power of social networks to build your brand’s influence, reputation, and, of course, profits. Today’s online influencers are web natives who trade in trust, reputation, and relationships, using social media to accrue the influence that builds up or brings down businesses online. If you want your business to succeed, don’t sit on the sidelines. Instead, use the Web to build trust with your consumers using Trust Agents.
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Free Resources

Google Voice - Google voice offers one phone number solution, which allows you to choose what phones ring at what times and send different contacts to different numbers. It also integrates with several smartphones and allows outgoing long distance to the US and Canada. Oh by the way it’s all free… need we say more?
Google Voice is still available by invitation only. If you’d like  a number right away, email: service@mobileocity.net

Gbuts, an add on for all Firefox based browsers which we highly recommend. Gbuts will further integrate your Google services into your browser.

Companion Link – Sync contacts, calendar and tasks data between desktop software (like Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, etc.) and your Google/Gmail/Google Apps and Voice account. The software can also sync directly with your phone. Use Companion Link together with the free Google Sync (Beta) service to get a complete over-the-air sync solution between your PC, Google and your phone. The Auto Sync feature allows you to set a timer on the sync, so it can run transparently in the background. This is a 14 day free trial.

doPDF- Installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver. After installation, it will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF. This is a great program to use for converting your incoming faxes from .tiff to PDF. Open any document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF . It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Tweet Deck- is your personal desktop for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date. We recommend you install Tweet Deck only after you have read Twitter for Business and become familiar with the features in Firefox and Flock.

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