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Earlier today, Georgina detailed the method that she uses to find new contacts on Twitter. If her technique doesn’t suit you you could use a Twitter directory. A new services in this crowded space is 99Tribes, a “discovery engine” for people on Twitter.

How often do you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, but not going anywhere? Here are a few ways to improve your focus.

There’s a ripple moving through the marketing world, and it’s bringing change. According to industry experts, customer service is ” the new marketing “. When you take care of your customers, they feel good about you. When they feel good about you, they stick with you. With email marketing , thoughtlessly pushing the same message at your entire customer base is no longer enough. [...]

This video will show you some of the sites where you can find targeted people to follow on Twitter and like-minded individuals to connect with.

Since my bursting point story came out last month, I’ve had Virtual Assistants email tell me they relate to my experience … and others have asked me “Cindy, how do you know when you’re nearing the bursting point?“ I remember when I first hit my bursting point … I didn’t really know what I was dealing

Most people reading this will have a to-do program, or a paper list or text file, listing not only projects and tasks but separate lists for home and work and possibly half a dozen different contexts.

Starting a successful website is not quite as simple as registering a domain name and uploading your site files. The most successful websites, particularly those that generate their traffic through multiple methods, are built with research and planning behind them. From keyword research to competition analysis, any successful commercial web…

Last week, I wrote about at what point it’s appropriate to say yes, when someone wants your time and attention. Danielle asked if I had a gracious way for delivering a “no” response, and I promised to write about that this week. First, I want to say that saying no to what doesn’t fit for you is one of the absolute best ways to give yourself…

With tax season behind us, it is worth taking a few minutes to prepare for next year. As the deficit rises, it seems pretty difficult to imagine that our taxes won’t be going up in one form or another. A little preparation can help make sure that you pay no more than your fair share.

You’re probably thinking that you read that wrong… How on Earth can a BUYER be scamming you? They want to send you money for your item / product and it all seems easy and to good to be true. They offer you MORE than what you wanted and they will send you payment immediately.

It’s not always so obvious when little changes or disruptions in our personal lives start negatively impacting our ability to work productively. Here are just a few of those sneaky disruptions.

The number one question I get asked about Virtual Assistance EACH week is: “How do I get clients?” The answer is very simple. You have to “fish, where the fish are!” And you have to “fish” consistently. Many VA’s find it difficult to market their services and thus struggle to consistently attract clients. This…

Introducing the First-Ever: Virtually Successful 90 Day Bootcamp Do you wish it was easier to find great clients? Or maybe you’re overwhelmed with the idea of marketing yourself and your business? And do you sometime wonder if you can really do this … build the long-term, successful business that everyone seems to have but…

Prior to the launch of the iPad bloggers started thinking about how convenient the slate might be for blogging. I wouldn’t want to use the iPad as my only blogging tool, but I admit I am finding it more useful than I thought it would be.

Your clients are asking for it … Your competitors are charging handsomely it … You never thought YOU could do it … UNTIL NOW … One of the things we LOVE to do is to help Virtual Assistants with learning new skills, finding new clients and building their business. When it comes right down to it, we’re pretty lucky…

Virtual biz veteran pro Erin Blaskie of BSETC.ca has just launched her new venture, Business S & M: Systems & Models for the Online Entrepreneur. Her new business is aimed at providing how-to products and workshops for a variety of Internet marketing projects, including process models for developing Group Coaching Programs, Webinar Processes, Virtual Event Promotion and a Newsletter Process Guide.

Web workers are creatures of habit. Those of us who are lucky enough to control all aspects of our work — schedule, location, process, and output — depend on such habits. How, then, do we then maintain our good habits while avoiding the bad ones?

If you’re trying to organize your browsing using the tab grouping method, you should give Firefox add-on Categorize a try. It’s a heavyweight bookmark organization tool that includes “tab sets,” which enable you set up groups of tabs and switch quickly between them.

Do you know the secret to filling a virtual event? It’s not who’s speaking at your virtual event. It’s not even the platform you’re using. The secret in filling your virtual event lies in your marketing and sadly, this is the one area that virtual hosts ignore. That’s why I’m happy to share my virtual event

Let’s say the hardest thing first: if you raise your fees, it’s possible you may lose some clients. And I hear the fear over losing anyone. However, if you raise your fees by ten percent or less, it is likely that you’ll lose very little business. (And it’s also likely that if someone leaves over…

Will provided some possible uses for Wave back in January, but a new addition to the tool — a set of templates that provide starting points for your Waves — reveal what Google must consider to be the main uses for the product.

Emily Morgan, Founder of Delegate Virtual Business Solutions and Entrepreneurs Entourage, is launching Virtual Fabulosity, a new website devoted to all aspects of the VP lifetyle, including tech, training and style.

For those of us not at the IVAA Summit in Phoenix – we can be part of the fun with the official YouTube Channel.

Check it out:  http://www.youtube.com/ivaalivesummit

Crave authority? Visibility? Want to attain a power position? Want to be a leader with your own personal brand? Well, you can find out how virtual events can help you do this in an interview I did with Susan Bratton. Susan is my favoritist digital diva. We met at the 2007 Podcast & New Media Expo

Are you ready to finally get control of the hundreds of passwords you have written on stickies, buried in email and floating around in your head?

The usage of URL shortening services like bit.ly and TinyURL has exploded over the past couple of years. They’re useful for shortening lengthy URLs, but as the user cannot tell what destination the link points to, they can also be used for malicious purposes

A successful real estate professional should focus on customer trust in the same way an internet marketer does. In both fields, trust and reputation are important. And once both are built, you should have no problem growing your marketing sphere of influence.

The minute I heard Susanne Myers on Nicole On The Net I knew she needed to be a guest on my podcast. She’s an expert on SEO keywords and she’s sharing with us the software used to help her own business.

I wanted to give all of my readers a heads up about what to expect over the next week on this blog. I’m heading to Phoenix tomorrow for the IVAA Live Summit ( #IVAA10 ). My goal is to do as much audio and video blogging from my iPhone as possible. [...]

Many businesses have chosen to plan an “Event” as the next step in their marketing strategy. This works very well for Coaches, Speakers, Sales Trainers, Authors, Internet Marketers, Virtual Assistants and many other types of service-based businesses as well as businesses that are launching a new product. In the recent past, marketing an Event started out with

DVVAA (Delaware Valley Virtual Assistants Association) presents: 5 Simple Steps to Attracting More VA Clients with Sydni Craig-Hart of Smart Simple Marketing & EAtoVA.com on Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 5:30pm (PDT)/8:30pm (EDT). [...]