On one of the VA forums I moderate we periodically have discussions about the use of free software versus paid software. In many cases it makes sense to pay for decent software and after all, we are running businesses aren’t we? Sometimes going cheap means you pay for what you get - something […]

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Periodically on the VA forums to which I belong, a VA will post a question, asking what is the ‘normal’ rate for a particular service. There are a number of reasons why that question will cause challenges for them and I’ll explain it here.
Firstly, the VA forums have members from all over the world […]

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Today is the 13th anniversary of the registration of “A Clayton’s Secretary”. A milestone in small business as we all know and have heard the statistics so many times of the number of businesses that make it to the end of the first year, the second, the fifth and the tenth. So, I just […]

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Regular readers will have seen my post a few days ago about website copy being stolen. Several comments were made including one from Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today. I emailed Jonathan and asked him some questions about his suggestion and he has very kindly given back some answers so I’m placing them here […]

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What is all this ridiculous stuff that makes no sense that comes in spam? Is it some kind of secret code that only the exceptional few know and understand? Perhaps there’s some global thing happening where groups of people around the world are planning things and the information is disseminated by the code […]

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Some of the VA forums I belong to have recently had discussions about new VAs who are copying the content of more established VAs and placing it on their website, unchanged. It is plagiarism and as far as I know, that isn’t legal. It certainly isn’t moral and can be very upsetting for […]

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