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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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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? As a hot new niche market, it’s natural that training programs have sprung up for VAs who want to offer this service. She offers training and support in many services, including social networking.

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Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Reasons why work slowdowns can be good Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 11:12 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant My DH had his first-ever no work day in 35 years as a Land Surveyor. Not that he has never taken a day off. Loosely Speaking�A

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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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AUGUST 6, 2009

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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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JUNE 23, 2010

Fiction is great training to become a good writer. 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. Of course, fiction isn’t just a good training ground to being a better writer.

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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

It includes hundreds of hours’ worth of training modules – with new additions constantly coming in – task lists to keep you moving forward, how-to videos, and community forums, as well as one of the best guarantees we’ve ever seen: They guarantee you’ll earn your first dollar using the Gamer Lifestyle in just three months, or your money back.

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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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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. That’s just a fast train to writer’s block. Kerrie´s last blog. Bill Harper´s last blog. Forget that.

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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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JULY 18, 2010

While training for competition, I learned many valuable lessons (beyond the kind that made sure you didn’t canter off to your death). Rebecca´s last blog. Heather Villa´s last blog. Giulietta Giulietta Nardone´s last blog. RhondaL´s last blog. But I digress. Yup, this is true.

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MARCH 1, 2010

You’ll have to apologize for mistakes you made or for something you forgot and that fell through the cracks or for being snappy in that last email. Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog. Sally B´s last blog. Regards, Kelly Kelly´s last blog. Nils Pettersson´s last blog. Time is money.

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JULY 11, 2010

Written by James - 53 Comments When you blog for some time, you eventually reach a point when you begin to wonder whether blogging is actually getting you anywhere. Written by James - 53 Comments When you blog for some time, you eventually reach a point when you begin to wonder whether blogging is actually getting you anywhere.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

People – quite a lot of them – had begun to read my blog and decided that I could help them build their blogs in the same way. I was having a hard time explaining that my blog lives or dies based on who I am, not on the information I provide. Most blogs find a niche and zero in on their audience. Let’s talk.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Meier´s last blog. How To Use a Coach Effectively Reply Kelly February 28, 2010 at 7:44 am JD— She tries Kelly´s last blog. Regards, Kelly Kelly´s last blog. Kelly´s last blog. Kelly´s last blog. Picking out things I never even would have thought of! And i neither have a site or a business.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Michael Martine´s last blog. Why To Blog As Yourself (Even if That’s Not What You Sell) Reply Dave Doolin ( @websiteweekend ) January 11, 2010 at 3:22 am Yeah, I don’t have to like someone to trust them. Dave Doolin´s last blog. Melinda | SuperWAHM´s last blog. Heather Villa´s last blog.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I even heard from a blogger the other day that he would never guest post on a blog unrelated to his own because it wouldn’t get him any traffic and that it was a waste of effort. Then find 3 or 4 blogs for each of those niches. Connect with the blog owners and other readers. Melinda | WAHM Biz Builder´s last blog.

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JULY 25, 2010

All sorts of people are cropping up with posts of deep, meaningful wisdom or challenging views on their blogs, profound personal philosophies delivered with grave sincerity of a Hindu guru scattered across the internet. When you state a good opinion on your blog, everyone nods, comments, shares, and discusses. 24 HOUR SPECIAL!

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

DO NOT look at a single work email after that. Your quick email check becomes a written response, some analysis, and finally that little voice says, “What the heck. Especially me Eliza´s last blog. Heather Villa´s last blog. Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog. Stick To Your Business Hours.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

About the amount of information you’d get in five decent-lengthed blog posts. Usually copy comes in nice bite-sized chunks: a webpage, a blog post, an article, a press release. It’s more difficult to organize a coherent train of thought through 50 pages than it is through 5. Carson Brackney´s last blog.

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JANUARY 3, 2010

Online business and blogging are changing every day. As the early-adopter generation of the internet, of blogging, of online business, we have an opportunity. Jordan Cooper´s last blog. I believe anyone who can build an audience for their blog in the first place can also offer paid content successfully.

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JULY 7, 2010

Leah McClellan´s last blog. Eric´s last blog. Blogging Better- The Two Simple Ways To Do So Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) July 8, 2010 at 11:47 am @ Eric – Your comment reminded me of something some clients do from time to time: Me: “Here’s your beautiful, stunning, sexy web design/copywriting! .&#

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APRIL 27, 2010

His emails are usually brief, casual, and mention something like, “Have a nice weekend,” or “Hope everything’s good with you.” So it was weird to get an email that was so stilted and formal that it sounded like it was written by the Queen of England’s chamberlain to someone she was too polite to outright call a waste of space.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

From “How to SEO Your Blog Posts&# to “101 Copywriting Tips for the Beginner&# to psychology type e-books packaged as “user guides&# , we find self-help manuals aplenty out there. In fact, I sometimes think that this is what blogging is all about. John Hewitt´s last blog. Those we can spot a mile away.

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APRIL 15, 2010

A few weeks ago, my mother read and enjoyed a guest blog post of mine – The Missing Half of Productivity Advice: Why Women Need to Get Involved. It shouldn’t have surprise me at all, really – I’ve been writing six to ten blog posts a week, every week, for at least eighteen months. That surprised me. Are we any good?

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Can have up to 10 separate incidences of individual coded areas Facebook Notes – the only place to put blog rss feed where it updates the Page Wall. Extended idea: create Friendfeed account and create a combined rss feed for multiple blogs, twitter posts, youtube posts, etc. app for Business Pages. Think banner ads.

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DECEMBER 6, 2009

Written by James - 106 Comments “I’ve been blogging for five years. We blog our hearts out, pouring creativity, knowledge and advice into each post we write. Blogging is bloody hard work. Take this blog, for example. No One to Blame But Ourselves Blogging started as personal online journals.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

Or you got your degree in comparative religion and now you write a blog about snow sports. Henri´s last blog. John Bardos´s last blog. Heather Villa´s last blog. Laura Cococcia´s last blog. You might have a degree in archaeology and now you write code for a living. Love this post! Great post!

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JULY 17, 2010

And this is exactly what I’m going to do in this blog post, I will publish these daily logs (in a more or less abridged version of course) giving you a time based description of the whole process, from installing Xcode to having your app in the AppStore. I also added a Help and FAQ section. Day 29 – Solving Puzzles Bug hunting.

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MAY 20, 2011

So, recycle those papers you have written and turn them into your next blog or book! To begin, write a very detailed blog with several parts to it. So a story in an Active Rain Blog has parts linked to parts of a Wordpress Blog and a another part included in the content of your website linking to parts of a facebook content.

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MAY 19, 2010

No matter how good you are at multi-tasking, you’re going to get a lot more done in a single hour of uninterrupted work than you would if you answered an email every five minutes and picked up the phone halfway through your 60-minute time frame. Amy Harrison´s last blog. Like eat Þórey Ómars´s last blog. (a

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MAY 23, 2010

Like, say, emailing us to ask if this is the right email to email us at, when the email you should use to apply is written on the job ad. When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# David´s last blog. DO follow instructions.

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JUNE 9, 2010

If that overnight success has a website, look at his blog archives. It’s so easy to become addicted to RSS feeds, commenting, reading blog posts and spending hours running in circles and then panicking because you’ve got nothing done. Tim Gordon´s last blog. Amy Harrison´s last blog. It taught me a lot.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Melinda | SuperWAHM´s last blog. Lucy Thorpe´s last blog. Stacey Cornelius´s last blog. Giulietta Giulietta Nardone´s last blog. Nathan Hangen´s last blog. I’d love to see you do a follow up blog on that topic. It’s amazing what a powerful turn-off negative words can be.

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