Category Archives: Tips and Tools for Virtual Assistants

5 Tips on How to Conquer Your Sales Fears

I was recently interviewed by Lisa Girard, writer at Entrepreneur.com. The article focused on the fear associated with selling your product or services. Here are my five tips: 1. Don’t be afraid to sell yourself. You are your most valuable … Continue reading

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What to Look for When Hiring a Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager

The Internet is constantly changing, with new and innovative ways for marketing and selling your products and services always looming over the horizon. If you are looking to hire a great virtual assistant or an online business manager, you’ve got … Continue reading

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What is a Virtual Assistant?

Wikipedia.org defines a Virtual Assistant as the following: “A Virtual Assistant (or simply VA), is an independent contractor providing administrative, technical, or sometimes creative assistance to clients – usually to other independent entrepreneurs and solo and small business practices, such … Continue reading

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12 More Ways to Avoid Missed Opportunities on the New & Improved Facebook

Just when you start feeling comfortable with the latest round of changes to Facebook, along comes another series of new features that can throw you into a tailspin. Like me. For example, I voluntarily converted to the new format rather … Continue reading

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Spank the dog, The Publicity Hound that is

It’s Joan Stewart’s a.k.a The Publicity Hounds birthday and she is blowing out 59 candles on the cake. There’s an old tradition that says the birthday person should get a birthday spanking–one light pat on the behind for every year. … Continue reading

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What to Blog About – Some Helpful Topics

Having trouble with developing interesting blog content? Does it seem that you are seeing the same old “stuff” about your industry in all of the posts? Sometimes it can be a real challenge finding interesting subject matter. In his most  … Continue reading

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ePub Makes It Easy to Publish on Amazon’s Kindle

I was asked by one of my clients to convert her ebooks into readable files on Amazon’s Kindle. I read tutorials on Amazon and searched Google for information on converting PDF files to publish on Kindle. Most of the tutorials were … Continue reading

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60+ Places Offline to Promote Your Product, Service, Cause, Issue or Event to Build the Buzz

Joan Stewart, aka, The Publicity Hound will be presenting a webinar on November, 23rd from 3-4:15 ET. Overview: Don’t spend precious time worrying about how to promote what you’re selling. Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound, has done most of the … Continue reading

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Tips on what not to do when you are sick

As a virtual assistant I feel very responsible for working and fulfilling my clients needs. Almost, to the detriment of my health. I recently had a bout this pneumonia. Now, it didn’t start out that way. I had a stuffy nose, … Continue reading

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Facebook privacy is becoming an oxymoron

Privacy Matters Facebook seems unable to stem the user privacy spill. Matters seemed to grow more serious this week when the WSJ reported that apps (including Farmville) were accessing user data even if the users had requested the strictest privacy … Continue reading

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