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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

For the past decade, BELAY has been witnessing this phenomenon firsthand through its network of contractors who supply virtual support as assistants, bookkeepers, web maintenance professionals and social media strategists. Those subconscious signals evaporate in an online-only collaboration.

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Should You Hang Up When a Recruiter Calls?

On The Job

Check out this story I did for Gannett/USAToday.com: You're sitting in your cubicle one day considering the dozens of emails that await your attention when your phone rings.On Hiring managers are searching social networking sites like LinkedIn looking for potential candidates who might be a good fit. Wait a second, you think.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

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Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. It has every possible feature for project management, and other products from 37signals’ Suite [web-based apps for collaboration, sharing information and making decisions].

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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

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Grow Your E-Commerce Business Create systems Automate everything Learn to delegate Collaborate Always Be Monitoring Step 7. If you fail to get this right, as I did with my online men’s store, then your customers won’t care about your offerings, and you’ll have to go back to your old cubicle job. Enjoy Life. Why E-Commerce?

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You Will Survive: 8 Strategies to Overcome New Entrepreneur Anxiety

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Breathe and know that there’s no need to retreat back to cubicle-land. Are you trying to build the app and website, grow seven social media accounts, host webinars, talk to customers, sell, and secure venture capital all at the same time while also juggling a personal life? It feels awful, but it’s perfectly survivable.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

Success

But every time I collaborate with one of these rare human beings, I evolve. If you’re sitting in a cubicle or your basement home office with the kids screaming upstairs, I imagine that being your own boss sounds delicious. My life improves, even if I see it only after five years of hindsight. Can I change my answer? Yesterday.

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