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My daughter and I visited the walled city of Intramuros with a couple of friends recently. This fortress was the seat of the Philippine government during the Spanish colonial period and is the location of San Agustin Church, the oldest church still standing in the country. The bells of this impressive church rang while we [...]
A reader of my blog got in touch with me recently through my Facebook fan page and we began exchanging notes about SEO. One of his questions really made me think and it’s something that is on the mind of a lot of people these days. His question was this: Would you recommend hiring those [...]
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 [...]
Scheduling appointments is something that we all do on a daily basis. Some prefer using a planner, while the savvy ones use an online calendar like Google Calendar. I personally use both: I add important client consultation and meetings on my daily planner from Belle de Jour. I also add it to my Google Calendar [...]
The virtual assistant industry is a GREEN industry. Why? The very nature of our jobs allow us to leave virtually no carbon footprint and use as little paper as possible. In fact, if not for old habits, online virtual assistants can do away with pen, paper, and other office supplies that you can typically find [...]
One of the features of WordPress is that it saves a copy of your post or page every single time that you update it. If you have a hundred of posts and you at least saved a draft of your post twice, that’s 200 post revisions stored in your WordPress database that you don’t really [...]
In a previous post , I demonstrated how to create pinnable quotes. For this post I am going to show how you can Pin a Quote to Pinterest using a tool developed by Adam Rotman, a creative web strategist. This is one of my favorite Pinterest tools because it saves me a lot of time and [...]
The emergence of social networking platforms has ensured the presence of multiple avenues for marketing. The issue now is not the lack of avenues but the strategy to be followed to ensure maximum impact on the target market segment. Creating profiles on various social networking portals and randomly posting company and products related data on [...]
