I get the value of using Facebook for business building purposes, believe me - but there is still a part of me that resists friending ‘anyone and everyone’ in order to have as many friends as possible.
For me it dilutes the purpose of Facebook - to connect and build relationships - to have just under […]

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Just read this tweet from Pam Slim
wow, for such an amazing and prolific woman, what a bad website. http://www.mayaangelou.com/
And it made me realize something… that in the online world, our websites are the equivalent of ‘business attire’. And a poor site can actually reflect negatively on the person in the same way that shoulder pads […]

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I’m very annoyed by the changes that 1ShoppingCart has made to their ‘manage products’ section. Those of you who use the system will know what I mean.
They’ve changed it from being one simple, clean page to setup a product to a series of ’show/hide’ buttons that you have to click to access all the different options. […]

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Loving the blog Web Worker Daily - reading it feels like a homecoming, these guys so get what my day to day existence is like!
Really great post today on Telecommuting Trends, which summarizes some great points from a recent article at Economist.com called Home Warriors.
I’ve always been a huge fan of working from home for […]

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Just a few days ago I completed the first draft of my new book for Online Business Managers (coming out this fall.)
I had set myself a deadline of getting the draft done by the end of June, and was typing my final chapter up to 10:30pm the night of June 30th. Nothing like waiting til […]

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Received this question from a business owner just the other day:
As a business owner, how do I find a good business manager?  I am a veteran of finding all sorts of VAs, coders, copywriters and contractors, but the one hump I haven’t gotten over is how to find that person who can actually drive projects […]

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Received this update from a fellow coach/business owner the other day… we had recently done a few coaching sessions on creating products for their business.
You asked about products. Well, to be honest, we aren’t working on any, mainly because we felt like we were forcing ourselves into a box that we didn’t want to pursue. […]

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Saw this press release today, and just had to raise my glass to Laura. I’ve always thought that online work would be an excellent fit for teens/college students… may have to send some work her way.
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Daughter of Founder of Virtual Assistant Industry Follows in Mother’s Footsteps, Spreading Telework in “Millennials” GenerationWoodstock, CT (PRWEB) December 5, […]

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Some of you may already be familiar with the One Laptop Per Child Initiative at XOGiving.com.
The brainchild of MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte, the mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to provide a means for learning, self-expression, and exploration to the nearly two billion children of the developing world with little or no access […]

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I was saddened this week to learn that Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, passed away just a couple of days ago at the age of 64.
I hadn’t thought of her in quite some time, other than buying some goodies at The Body Shop just last week. But when I heard of her death, […]

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