Conversations About Delegation on Blog Talk Radio
Yes, I’ve been absent from the blogging world lately. I’ve been crazy busy setting up my new company: the Home Page Construction Company! I want to thank everyone who participated in my Name My Company Contest. Some wonderful names were entered, but for one reason or another (mainly because the domain names weren’t available) I didn’t choose any of them. Instead, I put everyone’s name into a hat (a baseball cap, actually) and …drumroll, please… the winner of 25% off a custom-de

Name My Company Contest!
Affordable, easy-to-maintain blogsites are here! Gone are the days of paying webmasters thousands of dollars for a custom-designed, search engine optimized website with a matching blog. With state-of-the-art WordPress themes, it’s never been easier or more affordable to create a website/blog combination (or blogsite). I’m not talking about your run-of-the-mill WordPress theme, but a special foundation-type theme on which to build your blogsite. With easy-to-use design options, your blogsite can be built quickly and with much less need for HTML coding and custom css files. The best part? If you can maintain a blog, you c

Great New Book: The Commonsense Virtual Assistant
Sue L Canfield recently released her book, The Commonsense Virtual Assistant – Becoming an Entrepreneur, Not an Employee. Today, she’s stopped by my blog. Why did you write this book?My husband, Joel D Canfield, and I co-authored the book to help newer and aspiring virtual assistants understand what it takes to run a successful business. Over the last two years, I found that many newer and aspiring virtual assistants were asking for and following my

I’m QuickJumping and Togglin’ Along
Since I’ve got a little time while Vanessa thinks about her next e-book and Mrs. Malapert is researching her next tutorial, I want to talk about a couple of great productivity tools that I’ve found. The first one is called QuickJump and that’s the perfect name for it cuz that’s exactly what it does. With a few keystrokes, the QuickJump screen pops open, you enter in a few letters of the folder you want to get to, hit enter and v

Vanessa Determines Her Services, Niche and Rates
Vanessa Andruz and I are excited! Book 4 of “The Adventures of Vanessa Andruz, Virtual Assistant” is now available. And it’s a doozy! Ever wonder what types of services Virtual Assistants can provide? Or how to find your niche? Or, and this is the BIG question for most VAs – how to decid