My company, Ovaleye has been busy!  For the past year we have been finding the best services to offer our clients.  We have talked with people all of the US, Russia, and Germany to find the best way to offer these services.  This process has been a learning experience!  The team at Ovaleye has tested and retested these services, using them ourselves for the last five months and we are now ready to roll them out.  It’s a great feeling!

The first service we found and will roll out this week is Persony Web and Video Conferencing.  This service will change the way our clients meet with their partners and customers.  It’s all about cloud computing!  Ovaleye.com will be making our own conference rooms available to hosting clients to use on a reservations, first come first served basis for free.  Using web conferencing service, you can share your desktop, conduct webinars and more all from your small office.home office. If a hosting client wants a room that is branded for them they can easily purchase this from their Plesk Control Panel.

Our second service that we are rolling out is VoIP, or Voice over IP.  This is phone hosted on our server make possible by 4psa’s VoIPNow. Another great affordable cloud service.  I have mentioned this before.  My office phone is a Polycom VoIP desk top phone.  I am able to transfer calls to the Ovaleye team, check phone messages from my email, and be anywhere to answer my office line using my iPhone.  I no longer give my clients my personal cellphone # when I know I will be away from the office and you can do the same.

The third service is a business class emails from our Partners at Open-Xchange.  This is hosted email exchange that is a great alternative to Micrsoft’s Exchange. The Ovaleye team uses this as their email client and I can say it’s so much better than any other I have used in the past with the collaboration tools they offer.  This will provide our clients with free, attractive webmail that they can upgrade to an enhanced service that is similar to Google’s enhanced collaborations tools.  Ovaleye can include our team members in the calendar features, store important documents to share and it’s affordable.

We would not be able to offer these products so inexpensively without the help of our partners at Parallels.  It’s the best decision I have ever made so far with Ovaleye.  Finding good partners is a must to grow your business.

I am also very excited to show off an ever improving website layout that Evolution Design in San Diego created for us.  Bear, the owner, did a great job researching our industry and found the right colors and style to help us sell our new services.  Every business should revisit their website to make tweaks and changes as they grow.

Now on to marketing these services and filming videos to really help teach our clients how to best utilize these new services in their businesses for maximum benefits.  I am so passionate about these new cloud services

Kathy K Nelson – Chief Decision Maker at Ovaleye.com

Ovaleye is owned and operated by women, meaning myself and my daughter Jenn.  My daughter Jenn

My daughetr Jenn & I

joined Ovaleye shortly after she graduated College.  We have worked the past two years together to plan our future and help our clients.  Last August we looked down the list of our clients and noticed 90% of them were women.  Women decision makers or women owned businesses.  We made a decision to market to women and re-branded Ovaleye to focus on women owned businesses and have been happy ever since.

There have been many mentions lately in the media of how powerful women in the workforce can be.   This is a great article I read:

Scaling Up: Women-Owned Businesses Can Recharge The Global Economy

Our goal this year will be to seek out and partner with as many women in the workforce as we can find.  Hope to meet many of them.

I visited Chic Essentials a couple weeks ago in downtown Duvall.  I needed some fun gifts so I visited our client Monna Maddy.  Whenever I go into her cute store she always greets me at the door and usually her customers say hi too.  It’s such a warm and happy place to shop.  I of course spent more than I planned on because she is a great sales woman along with Lynnette her helper.

Everything in her store is cute, fun and very chic.   There are sunglasses, business card holders, great purses and my favorite, scarves.  Writing this makes me want to go back and try on more cute sunglasses!

Stop by her cute shop if you are in or near Duvall.  She or Lynnette will greet you at the door!

http://chicessentials.com/

I actually love everything about our business.  Ovaleye’s job is to build an online presence for each of our clients.   As our business grows I am very lucky to be able to meet small businesses from all over the country.  Not only small businesses, but organizations, associations, mommy bloggers, hobby forums and you name it.  And of course I love working closely with family and friends.

Many businesses I get to work with are owned and run by women.  I have chosen to focus Ovaleye’s attention on women in business because most of our contacts in the past are women.  They either run the business or are in charge of finding a hosting/website company.  I really enjoy being able to bring women together, connecting them business-to-business, and helping to create strong relationships.  As a hosting company serving many businesses, Ovaleye gives me the unique opportunity to see how businesses might benefit one another, and how the people who run them can benefit too.  I see it as a healthy and exciting community.

Many of the women I have met over the years are strong entrepreneurs who are motivated and happy to be in business for themselves.  Rose, my quickbook specialist started her first business in Tulsa and her daughter runs it now.  Our client Julie just bought her first house with income from her dog walking business.   Karna, our latest client is a Life Coach who helps clients with hard life choices.  These are just a few of the strong successful women I have met, I look forward to meeting many more in 2010.

Ovaleye is quite a challenge, and I’m learning new things all the time.  I like that.  In fact, I wake up every morning happy to start my day.  I wonder how many people can really say that.  I feel very fortunate.

This is the reason I am part owner of Ovaleye.  So I can work with my family.  My little community is part of why I also own Ovaleye.  My community makes it easy to start a business and network.  I love to get out and talk amongst my community.  I enjoy listening to their stories and visiting their businesses.  Some of my first clients are my family and part of my community.  So I am very grateful and happy I live in a small community near Seattle Washington.

Ovaleye is a family owned business.  Family meaning my husband and daughter.  Our cousin works with us and has been one of my mentors when I first started Ovaleye. I now work with community members that I call part of our Ovaleye family also. The two mix perfectly. I am a very lucky business owner/ wife/mother.