One of the members of our VA forum was doing research for a client on women’s health issues in the mid-life years and asked for suggestions to be added to the list she’d compiled.  Many came back with additional problems and then discussions took place on how old or young each feel and various problems [...]

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There are other adjectives I can think of but I won’t use them here.
I saw a post advertising for a Female Virtual Assistant/Content Writer that says, and I quote:
You’ll be writing about 3-4 250-350 articles per hour based on the keywords I will specify.
I am going to expect you work full time (only for me [...]

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I was concerned recently when I received several emails from a lady who had registered for my VA Trainer course but hadn’t heard from me.
I had responded to every single email she had sent me but still her emails kept coming, upset that I’d not responded.  This concerned me a great deal. There was no [...]

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Message from Barb who is organising this event:
What do these people all have in common?
Kathie Thomas
Michelle Jamison
Jeannine Clontz
Mary Lou Ashton
Pam Ivey
Tawnya Sutherland
Yvonne Weld
Stacy Brice
Dawn Goldberg
Danielle Guerin
Frances Palaschuk
Kristi Pavlik
Lauren Pibworth
Rob Neilly
David Hansen
Mitch Solway
and me… Barb Lang
They are coming from all around the world to be in Niagara Falls Canada June 4-7, 2009.
Each of these incredible people [...]

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Recently a VA posted a question to a forum I moderate asking for advice about the advertising she had been doing. She listed a number of sites she’d registered with and wanted to know what else she could do.  My response to her is below.
I see you’ve joined social networking groups but you haven’t mentioned [...]

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I saw an interesting article today titled “Take Advantage of Social Networking with a Virtual Assistant“  so of course I went and read it straight away.
I have very firm ideas about what a VA should and shouldn’t do for a client and networking is one of those things I don’t believe we should be doing.
I [...]

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