WishList Member is a WordPress plugin that you can use to create a membership based site. WishList Expert Terry Green has the following tips to maximize your use of WishList. Create a dashboard page with quicklinks to the various areas of your site for each level of your membership, then use that page as the [...]
So I went to a shoe store yesterday to pick up some particularly fierce boots (no fun trying on shoes with a broken toe, but pain be damned – these are hot!) and noticed something odd about the sales staff. The two gals who were working there were both dressed like they had just rolled [...]
As a Virtual Assistant, you will need some general skills that will apply across all niches. Once you have the basics covered, specialization becomes much easier. Here are the top 5 skills you will need as a VA. (1) Computer savvy – You must be comfortable using a computer as your computer is your life [...]
I’ve heard this before from other VA’s and thankfully, I’ve only had one client for whom “URGENT” was as common as “the”. When you are working with a virtual assistant, giving time-lines is crucial. As a client, you should be aware of your VA’s standard turnaround time, as well as the manner in which “URGENT” [...]
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If your office does a lot of single-sided printing, make use of papers that are destined for recycling. Our family uses leftover paper for kid’s drawings, I use it for Sudoku and printing maps from Google and we use it for draft documents for school projects. Reduce, reuse, recycle
I see a lot of Virtual Assistant posts about how starting your own business is a great idea, how you should just jump right into it, that it merely takes a computer and a great name and such and I just shake my head. With the world heading into what appears to be a recession [...]
Any small business owner, Virtual Assistant or otherwise, knows that having a 24/7 web presence acting as your virtual storefront is a great idea. But the upkeep on a straight HTML site can be daunting for new VA’s, or experienced VA’s who do not handle the more technical aspects of the own, or their clients’, [...]
I created a page for a new site in WP and in the text was a numbered list with a close bracket after each number – ie. 1) 2) etc. When I was proofing and arrived at number 8, I had a huge LOL moment.
Be careful what you say via email, because your tone, intent and content are all received by people whose filters will give them an impression of your words that is wrought with feeling and emotion. Even if that is NOT what you intended. Your statement of fact in an email may appear to be an [...]
