Nica Mandigma

UNC Releases Whitepaper on Managing Virtual Teams

One of my goals this year is to establish a virtual assistant team to provide virtual support to entrepreneurs and small business owners in the areas of online marketing, social media, and search engine optimization (SEO) so that they can run successful online businesses. Managing...

7 Ways to Clean Your Computer

A slow computer has a negative effect on efficiency, productivity, and income. I used to wait a minute for a file to load up because my computers S-L-O-W. But since I had a pretty fast processor, I attributed this to the large volume of files stores on my computer — ebooks,...

How to Use the Google Meme Generator

We’re living in a very visual economy nowadays. Offline we have jaw-dropping billboards and posters in every possible space. Online, we see image ads on almost all the site we visit. This trend is something that you should be using in marketing your business online and the Google...

SMART Goals for The Virtual Assistant

In a previous about the importance of planning, I’ve discussed how planning can prevent your business from getting stuck and you, as business owner, from overwhelm. Now, I will be sharing with you the SMART goals that I have for this blog and my virtual assistant business for 2012...

27 Sources of Totally FREE WordPress Themes

They say there’s no such thing as free lunch. They may be right but I do know that there are FREE WordPress themes.For this post, I’m showcasing 27 WP designers/design studios where you can get hundreds of totally FREE WordPress themes ever built. These studios/designers...

Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

Let me tell you how I came to the title of this post. I was looking at different cuts of meat at Puregold with my daughter when we noticed the attendants not-so silently arguing about something written on a white sheet of paper. The sheet contained the proverb “Failing to Plan is...

17 Awesome Web Sites You Can Do With WordPress

WordPress has come a long way… a very, very long way. It started out as personal blogging platform but now it’s being used for corporate web sites, online directories, personal portfolios, etc. The possibilities are plenty and from the standpoint of a passionate blogger,...

When Eagerness is a BAD Thing: Facebook Marketing Gone Wild

WARNING: This post contains adult material. I felt it necessary to warn you, my dear readers, that this is not the usual post that you will read here. Admittedly, I’m not always a rain of sunshine when I write posts or make comments in Facebook. But I don’t seek out to...

Don’t be a Faceless Commenter, Use Gravatar

Can you guess what makes my day as a blogger? Yes, you’re right! Comments. I absolutely love getting comments and get excited when I see notifications in my inbox that I have received one. But do you know what I love more? Getting comments from people with pictures. It makes...