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...

How to Manually Unsubscribe People from Mailchimp

A client who has a big list emailed me last week and asked whether I can help her unsubscribe people from her list. She has been getting emails from people wanting to be taken off her list and she does not know what to do with them. Luckily for me, she is using MailChimp, an email...

The Vanishing Act

A few weeks ago, a contact from the land down asked me about the possibilty of setting up a small officer here in the Philippines.  Hers is an Internet marketing firm who hires Filipino virtual assistants to help them with their search engine optimization and social meda optimization...

Why an Independent Contractor Agreement is Important

When I first started working as a virtual assistant, I was employed by a Seattle-based BPO firm that matched employers with Filipino virtual assistants. Since I was working full-time for them, I had an employment contract rather than an Independent Contractor Agreement. It was only when I...

Setting Up Automatic Late Payment Reminders in Freshbooks

A couple of months ago (if I remember correctly), I received a notification from Freshbooks that it now enables late payment reminders.  I was ecstatic over this because I’ve been burned by a client in the past who took two months to pay a $120 invoice.  I’ve written about...

How to Configure Your TweetMeme Plug-in (Part 2)

In a previous post, I talked about configuring your TweetMeme plug-in to make sure that retweets of your post cite your Twitter username instead of @tweetmeme.  Now, I’ll give you another quick and easy tutorial on how to configure the Twitter part of your TweetMeme WP plug-in to...

Christmas Gift Ideas Between Clients and Virtual Assistants

This Christmas, think not only of your family and friends when you are out shopping gifts. Also think about your clients, you virtual assistants, your business partners, and anyone else that you might like to connect with professionally. It does not have to be very expensive. In fact it...

How to Configure Your TweetMeme Plug-in

As an online virtual assistant and a blogger, one of the things that make me happy is seeing my posts retweeted.  All my posts usually get 1 Tweet, the one that I did, so when I see that a post has been retweeted by someone else, I cannot help but smile. It means that I connected with...

How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for Search Engines

As a professional or entrepreneur, there is one social network that you MUST belong to — LinkedIn. I believe, and many would agree with me on this one, that this is the best social network around for those seeking to make connections with the right kind of people in their industry...

Find Online Jobs and More at AyosDito.ph

Checking my Blogspot blogs today, I found an ad for AyosDito.ph.  I know this is a clasiffied ads site and since I am looking for bags for sale, I checked it out. Imagine my surprise when I found an ad for a Female Office Engineer on the first page of the site’s BUY results, in...