Article by Neil Paige
Getting your website positioned as high as possible in SERP (Search Engine Result Pages) is one of the main goals for everyone who has a SEO strategy.
Statistics prove that the percentage of getting a click to your website keeps on reducing as the searcher moves down the result pages on a Search [...]

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Networking

January 26, 2010

Great tweet today by @iggypintado highlighting an article by Roger Lawrence about face to face networking and ‘The Importance of the Water Cooler‘ . As a full time single mum and business owner, I have 6 hours of ‘child free time’ a week and it’s a real struggle to find any networking events that [...]

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Build your business with outsourcing

January 18, 2010

Excellent article here on how to build your business with outsourcing. Interesting point, it’s not always about outsourcing the things you don’t like to do, it’s about outsourcing the things that prevent you from working on the core activities of your own business (like generating income!).
Till next time,

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Planning for Non-Planners

January 15, 2010

So I’m working on my marketing plan and came across this excellent article over at  Understanding Marketing that could really have been written about my own experience and recent ‘light bulb moment’ on the significance of effective planning. Click here to read the article. Great tips & worth a read!
Till next time,

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Light bulb moments

January 13, 2010

Being an ‘ideas’ person, I’m often characterised as being flexible, adaptable, open to change, creative etc. Although these are all positive attributes, the down-side of this flexible attitude of mine is quite often I find myself with too many ideas. Is that even possible? Well, I’m starting to believe that it is.
Sometimes there are so [...]

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Working from home and setting boundaries

August 27, 2009

For many people who work from home, one of the biggest challenges is setting boundaries to separate ‘work time’ from ‘personal time’. I’m sure many of you can relate to this, but there seems to be a perception out there that if you work from home, you are automatically available 24/7 to your clients, [...]

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Outsource your life…(literally)

July 1, 2009

Here’s a great article from the Sydney Morning Herald featuring Rosie Murphy, founder of the Virtually Yours Virtual Assistant (VYVA) Network .  The article has a focus on “personal outsourcing” particularly to overseas organisations.  While the article does mention Australian based networks such as Virtually Yours, it would be really great to see the Australian media focus more [...]

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Where should a VA be located?

June 10, 2009

I read an interesting article by Linda Anderson on Flying Solo recently recently regarding where a Virtual Assistant should be located and thought it was a relevant article to include on my blog. So here’s the link  http://www.flyingsolo.com.au/p257896994_Where-should-Virtual-Assistants-be-based.html. In a nutshell, the great advantage of having a virtual assistant is just that – they’re virtual.  [...]

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How to get things done…

April 22, 2009

Having recently moved house with a young toddler and two businesses to keep running, I couldn’t help saying to myself on a number of occasions “there’s just not enough time”.  When panic started to set in with the pressure of looming deadlines and so much to do, I had no choice but to get organised [...]

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Tips for setting up a VA relationship

March 31, 2009

Take the time to establish clear processes and expectations up front with your VA and your working relationship will be productive and rewarding from the very beginning.  Here are my three top tips to manage a relationship with a VA.
Know what you want. To create clear expectations for a VA, you need to have a [...]

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What is a Virtual Assistant?

March 31, 2009

When introducing myself to new people, I’m always asked the question “So what do you do”. When I worked in the corporate world, this question was pretty simple to answer. Nowadays, when I answer “I’m a virtual assistant” I generally find myself explaining what that means.
Not that I’m complaining! I’m proud to be part of [...]

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