But wait it gets better than that…

Today on our podcast interview with Darlene Victoria of A Virtual Perception, we announced something HUGE!

I’m finding a newbie to mentor for 30 days!!

The winner of this giveaway will receive:

* One free copy of my Boot Camp for Virtual Assistants ebook
* Daily Virtual Assistant coaching and mentoring via email and phone as needed
* A free 5 page web site designed by me
* A free blog template to match your web site
* A free logo
* A free business card design

The winner will be announced on April 1st.

For those of you who do not win, there can only be one winner, be sure to follow the progress of the future virtual assistant as she blogs and vlogs about her start-up process.

If you’ve been thinking about becoming a Virtual Assistant - or know someone who is - now’s the time to make that leap! Visit VAstartup for additional information.

Part of this event is the giveaways! And you could win!

VAstartup has donated 2 copies of our Boot Camp for Virtual Assistants ebook to the event. You could win a copy of my ebook or one of the other ebooks being given away by other industry leaders. Don’t miss a chance to win one of these fabulous ebooks that gives you insight into the virtual assistant industry and how to start your own business!

You can read more here: http://www.connecting2give.com/

Next week I will also be interviewed for a podcast of this event. As soon as it’s available online, I will update you with a link so that you can listen to my interview along with interviews from all of the other fabulous industry leaders involved in this event!

My $.02 on the subject is that it’s your business - do what works for you.

I rarely work in-house for a client.  There has to be a really good reason for me to even consider it.  The first client that I worked in-house for was Juanell Teague.  She was putting together a Tribute for Zig Ziglar in the Dallas area.  Due to the exposure I could receive to other potential clients, I decided that this particular client was worth working in-house for.  It was an amazing experience.  However, as soon as the tribute was over - so were my days of working in-house for her.

I’ve also had one or two other clients that I have worked in-house for - because they were not familiar with the virtual assistant concept and couldn’t wrap their head around how me working virtually could work for them.  Some of these clients “got it” and I eventually ended up working virtually after just a few weeks.  The clients who couldn’t make the transition were eventually cut loose.

So my advice to other virtual assistants is to consider whether the client or opportunity can or will somehow benefit your business.  Sometimes it’s worth the extra effort to land a long-term client.

To your success!

I’m blushing hanging my head in shame…

Yes, I should be updating more frequently, but I’m busy!  I can update my blogs or I can update my clients?   Clients pay me so they get my time and sometimes my blogs don’t get the attention they need.

Thanks for the nudge…so here’s my post.  :)  First one in two months.  I’m rockin’ now!  LOL

Thanks Pammy!

If you’ve been struggling to wrap your head around social media marketing, this video will definitely be helpful!  I’m going back to the “party” now!  :D  Enjoy!

If you can’t see the video below, click here.

I have personally always used the Internet as a news source.  I don’t remember ever having a newspaper subscription and I can’t wait until 5 or 10 to know what happened today.  My main news source is CNN and my local news source is DallasNews.

I personally find it very odd now to see someone reading an actual newspaper.  It seems almost archaic to me.  And since most homes have a computer, it makes me wonder why people are still using natural resources to receive news that could more easily be looked up online.

My assumption is that if you’re reading this post, you have access to a computer.  :)  My challenge to you is that if you are still receiving a printed newspaper delivered to your home, challenge yourself for a week or two to get your news online and cancel your subscription to a printed newspaper.

People, everything is on the Internet.  Anything and everything you need to know. 

MessageSave is the easiest way that I have found to save email messages outside of Outlook for archiving, document management, sharing, legal compliance, and much more.

I often get frustrated with the size of my Outlook file due to the number of client folders and messages with attachments in each folder.   More often than not the messages that I receive include large file attachments up to one or two meg per attachment.  As you can see, this causes my Outlook file to bloat quickly and sometimes have performance issues.

In addition to reducing the size of my Outlook file, I also like to archive all email messages for future reference.

With MessageSave I am able to easily archive an entire client folder with attachments to the client file on my hard drive.  The process is too easy!

Check out MessageSave from TechHit for additional information.

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