Helping Small Businesses Online Since June 2008
The Internet is abuzz today with reports of a global brute force attack on WordPress sites. I first heard of this a couple of days ago on a Facebook group I belong to. I didn’t act on it then because I have pretty hard to guess password. But after learning that this attack specifically targets [...]
Fact: More than 60 million people all over the world use WordPress as their content management system (CMS). Fact: Millions of small business web sites are built on WordPress, whether their owners know it or not. Fact: Many entrepreneurs and small business owners need a WordPress virtual assistant to help them maintain their web sites [...]
For the last few months, I’ve been really pondering about my virtual assistant business. I’ve been doing this for more than four years and I really think it’s now time to up my game and work on growing the business. My dream is to have a multi-VA setup, a virtual assistant team if you will, [...]
Do you want to know some secrets? Yes, not just one – but more. All the secrets of virtual assistant success and earning passive income will be finally revealed. We’re spilling the beans on what will it take to make you a success in the virtual assistance industry. Learn the ropes, uncover all the various [...]
“Can you find me the easiest, best fast free webinar system I can use tomorrow? I’ve already got free conference call, but I’d like to do a quick screen share.” This is the task I received from a client last week. In this post, I will share with you how I went about completing this task [...]
Clients often come to me asking for ideas on how we can optimize their web sites and I always recommend link building to them aside from on-page SEO. With clients who are already familiar with it, they usually ask for specific strategies to do this. Those who aren’t need more a little bit more explanation. [...]
Brownouts. No Internet connection. Floods. These are some of the reasons why your Filipino virtual assistant won’t be able to report for work during the months from July to October. And they’re not lying. The Philippines, being a tropical country in the Typhoon belt, gets ravaged by at least six storms a year. And each [...]
Allow me to deviate from my usual post by announcing that I will be participating in the Social Media Summit 2012 happening at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig City tomorrow, July 26, 2012. I won one of 10 tickets given away by Unilab to this event. Here are the presentations lined up for the event. Social Media, what? [...]
In my post When to hire an SEO virtual assistant, I tried to answer this question: Would you recommend hiring those expensive SEO companies that charge $150-500/ month? Is it worth doing and would it be faster? I was speaking from my experience and my dealings with people who came to me for help. But [...]
Lessons from Social Media Day 2012 – Makati Filipinos proved that the Philippines is indeed the social media capital of the world with the recently concluded Social Media Day 2012. Around 440 netizens attended the celebration in Makati, exceeding the expectations of the event organizers, Tonyo Cruz and Ros Juan. What I found interesting is Tonyo’s [...]
