A wee rant on a Friday eve…
I hate it when I go to a website and can’t tell whose site it is!? When they have no information re: the person/people who are actually behind the website and business. Ran into this today at a site that I won’t name.
Makes me wonder, what are they trying [...]

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I had one of those ‘aha!’ moments the other day when I received this email from Andrea J. Lee’s Best of Multiple Streams f’ree ecourse. The subject line was:
Niche + Problem + Format = Income Stream
Out of a deluge of emails in my inbox this one instantly jumped out at me – as a (much [...]

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We all want to get testimonials from our customers, but of course! There really is no better way to lend credibility to what you are offering than to hear how it has helped others.
The thing is – it can be hard to get people to actually give you a testimonial. You may have asked them for [...]

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With all the bumps in the economy these days, i’m hearing some buzz among online support folks (virtual assistants, online business managers and the like) along the lines of:
“If my client’s business is struggling – doesn’t that mean they’ll have to let me go?”
Au contraire! Your services are needed more than ever because of these [...]

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Being Monday morning, you probably have a pile of to-dos sitting on your ‘virtual’ desk.
I invite you to consider each of those to-dos and ask yourself:
Do I need to be the person to do this?
Be relentless here. Try not to censor from the perspective of “but I do it best” (remember the being too picky [...]

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I got to thinking the other day re: social marketing as a business strategy. I know it’s a powerful tool for building a business, many folks are seeing great returns doing so… but as I shared a few weeks back I find that I get tired of social media.
And it occured to me – perhaps [...]

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As any good Online Business Manager will tell you – juggling is an essential part of the job! With so much going on every day you need to be able to keep all those ‘balls in the air’ so to speak.
Whether you are juggling balls or projects, here are a few tips to help you [...]

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I was reminded this week how great a resource Elance is – we needed someone to do some fast turnaround graphics for us, and as always we got a really good response to our posting and found an excellent designer who did a great job.
It had been a really long time since i’d used Elance to find [...]

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