Atypical Virtual Associates

One of the things I heard about the FOVA seminar was a talk on passive income streams.
It breaks my heart that when new people decide to become Virtual Assistants (for reasons ranging from mesothelioma to pregnancy) there is this dirty little secret they find out after the lovely new-business shine has worn off. That [...]

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Summer is coming and I’ve been looking at swing sets for the kids.
Winter has been hard on all of us, and man, I don’t know about you and your family but we’re sick of being cooped up in the house. Sure I could take them out back all bundled up, and I did, but [...]

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Doesn’t mean you should never stop working.
Your stress levels can be decreased even if you just sit quietly and relax on your couch for fifteen minutes.
Owning your own business is not easy, no matter how your family or friends might feel about it, and no matter how thankful you are that you can occasionally work [...]

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The husband and I are planning a vacation this year. I find it humorous that since he’s gotten this amazing PayPerClick analyst job at one of the top three B2B firms in america, it seems he wants to partake of the finer things in life.
So I was amused, but not shocked, when he asked me [...]

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Many VAs feel that the more clients they have the better, but you need to have a system in place or you’ll find yourself awake 24/7 trying to take care of your business, your family and your subcontractors.
I know one va that ended up in drug treatment from habits she acquired from working too [...]

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Okay, maybe you haven’t been wondering, but I’m sure you’ve noticed I haven’t been writing as much as I used to in the blog.
There are two reasons for that, and they’re pretty interdependent.

I feel I can only write about things that are related to virtual working or virtual assistance on this blog.
I’ve been trying to [...]

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I think you all know by now that online marketing is my passion.
Not only do I plan and execute online marketing strategies, I read about online marketing. A lot. So when I ran across this post by David Rodnitzky at Search Marketing Standard called Are New Marketers Better than Experienced Marketers it had my full [...]

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There is a fantastic, quirky little blog-post/article over at Startupnation about why so many innovations happen at home. Here’s an excerpt…
Lately, I’ve been trying to learn new ways to inspire creativity by reading books by leading innovation experts and it hit me like a sack full of Rubik’s Cubes: No wonder the greatest product ideas [...]

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NOPE!
Not kidding even one little eensy weensy bit.
I have been given the honor of the BFF (blog friend forever) award from Kelly McCausey of Work at Home Moms Talk Radio. She’s a dear friend, and someone I enjoy reading as well as talking to.
Thanks, Kelly!
I’ll come back and edit this post for the “passing it [...]

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I have a backup drive.
Thank goodness for that - because my computer died two nights ago. Something ate up every last bit of memory and then just kept restarting my computer. Over and over.
It was terribly sad.
I backup once a week, but there’s one thing they don’t tell you about a complete reformat.
It takes TWO [...]

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