Top 11 Posts of 2011

virtual assistant blogs

The past year has been a prolific year for this blog. I wrote more than a hundred posts this year  and some of them were really popular with the readers. I’m making a list of 11 of the most popular blog posts for  2011 so I can plan ahead of time what sort of posts [...]

Don’t be a Faceless Commenter, Use Gravatar

blog commenting

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 me want to give a [...]

A Simple WordPress Theme for Your Online Store

totally free wordpress themes

I love freebies (Who doesn’t?) and if you’re a fan of totally free WordPress themes like I am, you’d be excited with this news. WooThemes has released a brand new WordPress plugin and several themes for an e-commerce store. One of the themes is called Wootique and in order to make it work, you need [...]

WordPress Tutorial Coming Right Up!

virtual assistant tutorial

I’ve been getting inquries on this blog about how to get started as a virtual assistant and the truth is, I don’t know exactly what to tell them. You see, I became a home-based virtual assistant by accident. I was just browsing a blog and I saw that they are in need for virtual assistants [...]

Say "NO" to Hotlinking

bandwith theft

Lately, I have been managing WordPress blogs for several clients.  One of those clients is  a self-proclaimed Luddite, which means (and this is according to her) that she’s a bit wary about new technology.  But she knows that she has to use these tools to grow her business and so she does not mind using [...]

This Blog Is Under Renovation!

create your own signs

For a few weeks now, the blog has been under “pause.” I have been so busy attending to clients  and learning whatever I can about this new niche that I seem to be fitting right in to.  I apologize to those who have visited the blog over the past weeks and didn’t find new content. [...]

Your Blog Horoscope: Post Today….

Do you follow the horoscope? I do or at least I used to. Sometimes the forecasts are so vague they’re ridiculous.  At other times they proved to be true. Anyway, I was reading my horoscope earlier when  I thought of something. Wouldn’t  it be nice to have a blog horoscope? Something that will tell you [...]

I Stopped Obsessing About Google Analytics

For serious bloggers, Google Analytics is part of their  everyday routine and for a while I was really obsessed about it too. I would open my Google Analytics account everyday and obsess about my web traffic statistics. After looking at the stats, I would then engage in a mental exercise that’s truly, truly stressful. I would [...]