Sharon Sinpapel entered the financial services business in 1983 and has held various supervisory and planning positions in the industry. She is a General Securities Principal, a California life, health and long-term care agent, is currently an NASD arbitrator, and involved in a number of state and nationally recognized advisory commissions and boards on women’s issues.

Sharon offers consulting services on the structure and technology involved in selecting paperless office solutions. She has been featured in Investment News, Registered Representative Magazine, Ticker Magazine, Wealth Manager Magazine, The Journal of Financial Planning, Financial Planning of Australia, The Australian, Insights Magazine, and also on Financial Planning Interactive, Your Biz and Business Radio1220 San Francisco.

As an activist and feminist, Sharon is a member of NWPC, NOW, BPW, and many other organizations. She is a member of the Ad Hok Committee Violence Against Women with the Commission on the Status of Women and her case study entitled Violence Against Women-Crimes on the U.S.-Mexican Bordentown of Juarez will be presented to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Beiging+10 Session in New York in March 2005.

What is a Virtual Office?
Well, it simply means that there is NO paper and everything you need to conduct your business is digitally stored in a computer and on other digital storage media (more on that in Chapter 4). It’s a new way to think about your business and, going forward, a new way to help yourself and your clients as we proceed into the next century.
Most offices look like the inevitable stacks of papers on the desk; un-filed papers in piles on the credenza; manila folders in neat but haphazard disarray on the floor behind, to the side and, sometimes, in front of the desk. My office used to look like that. Every month (or quarterly, biannually) when all that paper stacks up, it used to get even worse. Possibly, if your business is in your home, you don’t even park your car in your garage anymore.