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...

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...

6 Totally FREE Animated GIF Makers

 Here’s the case: client saw a moving banner in a competitor web site and wants the same thing for his own.  He wants three 120 x 90 pixel images to rotate every five seconds. This would serve as thumbnails for categories on his site.    I was a bit confused at first. I thought...

Don’t Let Others Steal Your Identity

When I was  social media newbie, I had the eagerness of a young pup. I signed up for social media sites like a thirsty puppy lapping a bowl of milk: voraciously. And when you let such a strong impulse get the better of you, you tend to think about immediate gratification/satisfaction and...

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...

HOT!!! Arkli, Your Social Media Campaign Manager

Twice today I’ve come up across Arkli, another app for managing social media campaigns. The first instance is a fellow virtual online assistant updating her Facebook status via Arkli. The next is an email from Erin Blaskie about this new social campaign manager.  Since she is...

Free Article Spinning Software

Article spinning is a practice that many Internet marketers and affiliate marketers employ to create multiple versions of an article or blog post. According to Wikipedia, it’s widely used in search engine optimization and is better than duplicating content.  Done manually, it is a...

Sugar Sync Saves the Day!

The online world is very malicious. I am referring to the millions of malicious software that invade as many computer systems a day and corrupt their files and programs. Eventually, malware will ultimately take its toll on your computer and disable it. I know because I experienced this...

From Word to Spreadsheet: A Microsoft Excel 2007 Tutorial

One of  my local clients is a preschool owner. As part of the Internet marketing package she signed up for, I told the owner that I would be assigning personalized email addresses to her students for use of their parents.  Early this week, she gave me a list of their students with their...

Google Analytics: Analyzing the Stats of a Single Post

One of my most successful posts in terms of comments is “It’s a Global Economy, Deal With It!” It sparked comments from my friends and accidental readers, including a most recent comment from a Filipina from abroad who was directed to the page while searching for graphic...