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	<description>The Virtual Assistant helps small businesses online by providing them with easy-to-follow tips on Worpdress, social media, SEO, and online marketing.</description>
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		<title>UNC Releases Whitepaper on Managing Virtual Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenan-Flagler Business School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Ways to Clean Your Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slow computer has a negative effect on efficiency,  productivity, and income. I used to wait a minute for a file to load up because my computers S-L-O-W. But since I had a pretty fast processor, I attributed this to the large volume of files stores on my computer &#8212; ebooks, videos, movies, etc.  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use the Google Meme Generator</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[online marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;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 Meme Generatorcan help you make this task [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMART Goals for The Virtual Assistant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous about the importance of planning, I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>27 Sources of Totally FREE WordPress Themes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say there&#8217;s no such thing as free lunch.  They may be right but I do know that there are FREE WordPress themes.For this post, I&#8217;m showcasing 27 WP designers/design studios where you can get hundreds of totally FREE WordPress themes ever built. These studios/designers sell their designs but give us frugal ones a chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alligator syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you how I came to the title of this post. I was looking at different cuts of meat at Puregold with my daughter when we noticed the attendants not-so silently arguing about something written on a white sheet of paper. The sheet contained the proverb &#8220;Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17 Awesome Web Sites You Can Do With WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wordpress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordpress plug-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wordpress themes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress has come a long way&#8230; a very, very long way. It started out as personal blogging platform but now it&#8217;s being used for corporate web sites, online directories, personal portfolios, etc. The possibilities are plenty and from the standpoint of a passionate blogger, they&#8217;re just awesome.  Just to give you an idea of how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 11 Posts of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top posts of 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual assistant blogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Eagerness is a BAD Thing: Facebook Marketing Gone Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how not to do facebook marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING:  This post contains adult material.   I felt it necessary to warn you, my dear readers, that this is not the usual post that you will read here. Admittedly, I&#8217;m not always a rain of sunshine when I write posts or make comments in Facebook. But I don&#8217;t seek out to intentionally offend someone. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t be a Faceless Commenter, Use Gravatar</title>
		<link>http://thevirtualonlineassistant.com/dont-be-a-faceless-commenter-use-gravatar/</link>
		<comments>http://thevirtualonlineassistant.com/dont-be-a-faceless-commenter-use-gravatar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nica Mandigma</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VA-Client Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Assistant Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can you guess what makes my day as a blogger?   Yes, you&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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