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...

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...

The Virtual Assistant’s Books

While Typhoon Juaning wreaking havoc in the southern provinces of the Philippines, I finally got around to organizing my books. About 70% is romance, while the rest are self-help books, parenting books, and books that have been helpful to me as a virtual online assistant.  Except for...

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...

Minimizing Your Paypal Fees

Most virtual assistants that I know, especially those in the Philippines, get paid through Paypal. It’s the fastest and most secure way to send payment online. if your client has a Paypal account, you can ask your client to send money to you. In case your client has no Paypal...

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...