Helping Small Businesses Online Since June 2008
Brownouts. No Internet connection. Floods. These are some of the reasons why your Filipino virtual assistant won’t be able to report for work during the months from July to October. And they’re not lying. The Philippines, being a tropical country in the Typhoon belt, gets ravaged by at least six storms a year. And each [...]
The subject of how much a virtual boss should pay a Filipino virtual assistant has been the center of much controversy and discussion. On one hand, we have outsourcing pros like Chris C. Ducker of Virtual Business Lifestyle and James Wedmore of Video Traffic Academy saying that you can pay your virtual assistant as low [...]
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 virtual teams is inherently part of this dream and something [...]
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 as well as how I arrived [...]
So you want to give your younger sibling an entry-level yet feature-rich point and shoot camera for Christmas. As for yourself, you wouldn’t mind spending some decent money on the latest mirror-less camera, a tablet computer for dad and mom, and a hard-to-find comic book video game for your BFF. They are within [...]
In a previous post, I wrote about how you can have a virtual assistant buy Christmas gifts for your family, friends, and associates. With so many online stores around, it’s so easy to pass this very personal chore to your virtual personal assistant. But that’s not just what you can ask your virtual assistant [...]
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 the Excel 2007 book and Janette Toral’s Blogging [...]
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 [...]
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 (SMO) tasks. Because of the problems they’ve [...]
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 account, you can send a [...]
