Facebook Privacy Concerns

Q: I use Facebook mostly for staying in touch with friends and family, but would like to use it for my business as well. But how can I keep my private life well… private?

A: You might think that putting the words privacy and social networking site in the same sentence makes it a bit… strange. After all, isn’t that the whole point of the social networking site -… Continue reading

Business Blog or Website – What’s Better for Your Business?

Q: Should I switch from a regular HTML website to a blog site?

A: When blogs and websites marry, their little offsprings – blogsites – get the best of both worlds. These easy-on-the-budget search engine darlings have familiar page structure and appeal of the regular websites. Yet blogs are not for every business and have their own limitations.

Blogs are cheap-er (but not free)

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5 Reasons to Hire Virtual Assistant

WHY hire a Virtual Assistant

Virtual Assistant saves money – hiring a full-time or a part-time employee would likely be more expensive, especially after taking into consideration payroll taxes, benefits, additional offices space, etc.

Virtual Assistant saves time - you get an opportunity to transfer some of the daily tasks to a VA.

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Offshore Virtual Assistants – Myths and Realities – Part 3

This is the last post in the 3-part series about myths and realities of competing with offshore virtual assistants. This time, I want to talk about not just one, but two myths since they go hand-in-hand. Both have to do wtih teamwork. Both are based in the fact that so many offshore virtual assistants are actually multi-VA firms. How can one VA compete with a team?

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