If you publish your own newsletter or ezine, or provide this service for your virtual assistance clients you are very likely already familiar with Aweber which is the newsletter delivery service that I use.  Recently Aweber integrated Twitter into their service and you can now broadcast your email newsletter to people who are not subscribed to your list but who do follow you on Twitter.  By automatically...

Each week I get emails asking me for recommendations on learning materials and programs, business automation tools, and other products and systems that can help you grow and build your online business. These are resources that are personally used by me, my development team and my virtual assistance team. Web Video University Did you know that 65% of online surfers will finish watching a video ad which...

I know a lot of VA’s who do transcription as well as virtual assistants who compile e-books for themselves or their clients.  One of the most annoying and time consuming issues when typing any kind of document is to find that somewhere, somehow, you’ve typed entire sentences or paragraphs in the wrong case.  Do you want to scrap the document and start over?  The simple answer is go...

So many new Virtual Assistants are asking me for advice on blogging and where to get professional, and free, templates that I went on a hunt for free templates.  I use WordPress but was able to find a good linkfor Blogger templates at Gecko & Fly.    For free WordPress templates try these sites: AlexKing.org Blogging Pro Emily Robins.com Weblog Tools Collection WordPress.org If you come across...

If you’re like most Virtual Assistants, Web Developers, Coaches, or other online service professionals, you wish you could clone yourself. Phones ringing, email piling up and client project lists growing longer and longer.  At the same time, you wish you could clone your best clients–and keep the ones you have.In the midst of this, comes the question: “Do you do…copywriting…sales...

One of the most asked for processes that our virtual assistance and web development clients ask for is for us to build and maintain one or multiple membership sites.  We use several different programs which I will be sharing with you here over the next few weeks. One of my favorites systems is iGrOOps.com which is a pay-per-membership online group with web applications for collaboration. What does...

I received an email this morning from my brilliant friend Tony Bodoh who wrote: “I thought this article was important and insightful. As this ‘credit crisis’ has unfolded, I have not been shy about sharing my perspective that the use of creativity through the expansion of entreprenurship is the key to solving our economic situation.  This article makes it clear that we need to...