Entries from June 2008

June 30, 2008

The Green Connection

Grant Griffiths of Home Office Warrior has a fantastic post on Telecommuting, Teleworking and Going Green today.  If you are curious about going green and/or worried about high gas prices and how they effect you and your employees it is more than worth your time to head on over and check it out!!

June 19, 2008

Making a Negative a Positive

This week began with a call from a potential client.  Excited at the possibilities, I listened closely as they explained what task they were looking to have completed by a virtual assistant.  And my heart sank.  A contract with a current client clearly would make this task a conflict of interest. I explained the situation [...]

June 18, 2008

Virtual Assistant Tools Post

My latest article over at Home Office Warrior is entitled ” Tools of the Virtual Assistant Trade” and gives a list of tools that virtual assistants may find useful.  It’s in no way a complete list and I encourage you to leave your own suggestions in the comments section there.  You can find it both [...]

June 16, 2008

Computerized Podcasting

Thanks to an article over at AllBusiness.com, I’ve discovered a podcast tool that will convert your blog into a podcast.  It’s called Odiogo and all you have to do is sign up with your blog URL and it converts what you’ve written into a computerized  speech mp3 file.   I was intrigued even though I don’t normally [...]

June 11, 2008

Virtual Assistants for Attorneys? Check out Rocket Matter…

I know there are plenty of Virtual Assistants out there who contract with attorneys.  It’s just a natural match.  The fact that there are a multitude of solo practitioners in the field of law compliments the use of a remote administrative professional.  It saves the expenses and overhead associated with hiring a paralegal or legal [...]

June 9, 2008

Final Installment of “I Want a Virtual Assistant…now what?”

The final installment of my series can be found at Home Office Warrior Virtual Assistant.  It’s the fourth in the series and is entitled, ” Is it good for you?”  Head over and check it out!

June 1, 2008

Is Your Business Card Working for You?

One of the first things anyone starting a business does is to either make or order business cards.  But seldom do we stop to think about the fact that this simple little rectangle of paper is going to be a representative of us and our business.  The majority of business cards are simply your name, [...]