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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Building on your skills Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 8:46 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources It’s the time of year when we all do some self assessment and then look ahead to changes we want to make in the coming year.Â

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs And now for some damage control Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 4:02 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging In the wee hours of February 18, while I was packing for a trip out of town, Loosely Speaking vanished from existence. Who does that??

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs And now for some damage control Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 4:02 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging In the wee hours of February 18, while I was packing for a trip out of town, Loosely Speaking vanished from existence. Who does that??

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Here are a few suggestions: Always start out with a FAQ. The more answers you can provide on your website, the easier it will be for customers to understand your policies, but remember that competition is keen for online businesses, and you will want to compare your policies with your competition. Don’t make excuses.

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APRIL 16, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Comment by Richard | RichardShelmerdine.com on April 29, 2010 @ 5:02 am Trackbacks Stress, Anxiety, and Internal Warfare Overcome fear of Public Speaking | SPIRIT Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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JANUARY 13, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can Virtual Assistants provide social networking support? For instance, can I represent you, by posting links to your newest blog posts and responding to all your Twitter DM’s, forwarding to you just the ones I think you’ll want to review?

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MARCH 11, 2010

We’ve all heard the hype that every business must have a blog. And many online copywriters are thrilled to land a new blogging gig – so thrilled they rarely pause to wonder if writing for their client’s blog is really the best investment of that person’s marketing budget. Blogs build brand and trust.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I’m making an exception to my “no rant&# policy today because of a product advertisement I saw recently for Kleenex Hand Towels while watching TV. Instead, I read the following on their FAQ. If you're still interested in receiving a free copy of Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, please email me your mailing address.

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 6, 2009

They will conduct a panel discussion on this topic and invite you to submit your questions in advance: please post them in the comment area below or send an email with your questions to ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net. Deadline is midnight, Arizona time, Monday, August 31, 2009. Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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MARCH 3, 2010

A client emails you in a panic and the tone is so urgent that you feel the need like it’s your own. Here’s a tip: make a 48-hour waiting period the standard policy in your business for all incoming requests. Henry Bingaman´s last blog. Ah, the rush job. You drop everything. Stop the presses! There, that was easy!

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

A project is not about checking your emails each day. Chris´s last blog. PM Hut´s last blog. Not to mention overhead like cleaning up emails, invoicing, etc. @PM I tried to pull the term ‘resources’ (staff) on James and he blew raspberries at me Eliza´s last blog.

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MAY 11, 2010

You probably didn’t know about this treasure, because I forgot to blog about it. We’ll also be experimenting with the blog. Or maybe you have a suggestion for our blog. Matthew : Big Red Tomato Company´s last blog. We’re hiring. In short, we’re experimenting. Go for it; we’re all ears.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Use email, instant messaging and your mobile phone to submit your notes or you can clip content from the web with the browser toolbar. With Tomboy you can highlight text, check spelling and auto link web and email addresses. Check out their blog for more posts on marketing and development.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Joshua Black The Underdog Millionaire Joshua Black | The Underdog Millionaire´s last blog. Stacey Cornelius´s last blog. Reply FitJerks Fitness Blog ( @fitjerk ) April 1, 2010 at 5:50 am Interesting, so in a way did it make the writing the sales copy easier or harder? FitJerks Fitness Blog´s last blog.

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MARCH 8, 2010

You may not think that your website, your blog, your freelance business, is something you need to think about in your last will and testament, but it is. Consider what you’d like for your website, your blog or your online business if you were to pass on. A lot of irritation. Who Wants My Business? So go ahead.

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JANUARY 14, 2010

Alright, well, I know he emailed me to let me know I had a broken link in a post. And I know he was interested in what that link led to, which made me think well of him, so I emailed him back. And I also know that he was fast on the replies, quick with the wit, and he had a nice-looking blog. In less than 5 emails, in fact.

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APRIL 13, 2010

I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. Chris Mower´s last blog. I recently had a discussion via email with someone regarding the CAN-Spam Act (US) and Anti-Spam Act (Australia). In the US it’s legal to sign someone up to your email list without asking their permission.

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APRIL 25, 2010

Check your email. Look at your email. Read that long chain email someone forwarded to you. Forward that chain email to all your friends. Write a detailed apology to the friend you sent that chain email to who asked you not to send stuff like that anymore. Send an email to your client. Check your voice mail.

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APRIL 1, 2010

You could try cold-calling (or cold-emailing), knocking on doors or praying to the freelancing fairies for some work, but there are some better techniques you can use that will be sure to get you clients in a hurry. Not only that, having a blog is a must as well. A blog gives you a platform to demonstrate your expertise.

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JULY 14, 2010

And you can become visible by getting involved in your professional community, attending trade association meetings, entering industry contests and award shows, writing articles, giving speeches, publishing an informative blog , generating news about your business, and staying in touch with former clients. Heather Villa´s last blog.

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MARCH 4, 2010

You have social media friends, people you’ve met on blogs, your chat buddies or people you see regularly on forums. Here’s how you get them: Visit blogs and start commenting regularly. You can even send an email just to say hi. Regards, Kelly Kelly´s last blog. Nathan Hangen´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Emails bombard you. You were supposed to deliver this project at 5pm and you’re almost finished but… A new email comes in. I just recently started reading your blog. Brett´s last blog. Mark Dykeman´s last blog. Jodi Kaplan´s last blog. Giulietta Nardone´s last blog.

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MARCH 16, 2010

I read some blogs. A lot of blogs, actually. Checking email, reading blogs, watching videos on Hulu. I am going to send a couple “I love you&# emails. Heather Villa´s last blog. Giulietta Nardone´s last blog. For a lot of us, this is how that conversation would go: “Um.

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MARCH 28, 2010

Especially you point “choosing to work with an expert who has never worked on the internet, has never worked with online businesses or who has never been exposed to the freelancing lifestyle is a big mistake&# Web design firm´s last blog. John Soares´s last blog. Mark Dykeman´s last blog.

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JANUARY 17, 2010

Sometimes we’re right, sometimes we’re wrong, but the point is that it doesn’t do to blog about the unique ideas that makes you different and special. Here are four reasons to love that the competition reads your blog. So every blog in the hemisphere has the same exact idea in place four weeks later – so what?

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MARCH 18, 2010

Professor Beej´s last blog. Review: “World of Warcraft – Arthas – Rise of the Lich King” by Christie Golden Reply Maren Kate ( @marenkate ) March 19, 2010 at 3:59 am Wow, sounds like an amazing deal, I will definitely consider it as I do truly love writing and would love to do more than isn’t just business blogging.

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MAY 26, 2010

Or are you just thinking about hitting your target word count, churning out that blog post, ticking off that task on your to-do list? We boast on Twitter about the number of blog posts we’ve written in a day. We post our novel word count on our blog or on Facebook. When you sit down to write, do you feel excited?

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Can’t afford you guys yet, but soon I will Henri @ Wake Up Cloud´s last blog. Meier´s last blog. Meier´s last blog. condo finder´s last blog. Heather Villa´s last blog. CondoFinder – I think you should read our comment policy. Steve Errey´s last blog.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Written by Agent X - 25 Comments When I get an email from pro copywriter Dean Rieck , I’m always happy. More coffee… Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog. Regards, Kelly Kelly´s last blog. Ryan Cowles´s last blog. Reply Steve Logan ( @ImpactCopy ) March 26, 2010 at 11:02 am Great blog post.

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APRIL 6, 2010

If you want your blog to get a whole lot more readers, you should think about taking a class in how to write better articles and be noticed on the web. For a long time now, I’ve been reading blogs about marketing. Your blog is one of my favorite classes! TravelinOma´s last blog. I have the blog. I blog swap.

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JUNE 23, 2010

When I started blogging and writing articles, it felt damn hard. Once you’ve written a few short stories, those daily blog posts that once were hard to write are going to get a lot easier. How often do you remember a blog post or a magazine article you read? But the physics classes did. I struggled along.

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JULY 4, 2010

You find a voice that seems to work for a while, but then you can’t maintain consistency – a blog post you wrote last week sounds completely different from one you wrote yesterday. After all, our voices change with time and experience -the writing voice and the other kind- Thanks for this, Thorey ThoreyO´s last blog.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When you’ve been blogging for nearly four years and written quite a bit more than 1,000 posts, you tend to forget a great deal – like the fact that you actually wrote this stuff, and that hey, some of it is pretty darned good. And you thought your first blog posts were bad. The experience was… well, surprising, honestly.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Sure, it’s great to hit the snooze button and give yourself an extra hour of R&R once in awhile, but before you know it, you’re getting up at noon and puttering around before you answer your customer emails. Heather Villa´s last blog. Laura Spencer´s last blog. Pierre´s last blog. Great post.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Go read my blog for a few hours and get psyched up. King Sidharth´s last blog. I still have trouble shifting back and forth, where, during the day, I need to be an authority, and at night, I can just be some dude on a blog saying stuff. Kev Jaques´s last blog. Heather Villa´s last blog.

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APRIL 20, 2010

This is what a lot of blogs out there sound like. If you’ve been thinking about starting a blog but you’re afraid it won’t succeed because you’re not smart or funny or interesting enough, then repeat after me: “I do not have to be perfect. My favorite blogs are the ones that can laugh at themselves. It is totally useless.

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JUNE 27, 2010

Þórey Ómars´s last blog. Things I didn’t get done that day, emails I meant to send, bills I haven’t paid, posts I haven’t written, product launch process – they all keep me awake in the wee small hours. Melinda | SuperWAHM´s last blog. Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog.

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