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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?? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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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?? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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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. Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change?

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JUNE 2, 2010

The next step is to create a solid guest post policy of guidelines. Your Link Requirements and Policies It’s very important to mention what you’ll accept in regards to linking, because that’s usually what causes plenty of issues and misunderstandings. That’s up to you.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

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Even though the articles were on specific topics, I could take one or up to three sentences from one article and morph it into another article on a different topic. Here's a tip: you talk to, email several people a day. Never Throw Anything Away! I acquired many articles to have at my disposal doing this. Let the articles begin.

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APRIL 29, 2010

No emails from the site editor. There are dozens of reasons why writers wind up in this content limbo. Firing off a biting email demanding answers and an apology probably won’t win you repeat business. Write the email and then trash it. Days elapse, but there’s no sign of your published piece. But God knows you want to.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

A project is not about checking your emails each day. I’ve spent the last couple months finishing up existing work commitments so I can begin a new project. Quite often projects overlap, in that you are winding one down, while starting one up. Not to mention overhead like cleaning up emails, invoicing, etc. @PM

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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. Then sit back and enjoy today’s post on how to turn down clients and still be successful. Ah, the rush job.

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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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APRIL 13, 2010

I’m on a bunch of lists I never signed up for. I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I get lots of coupons in the mail for companies I frequent, because I signed up to receive those coupons. It’s way easier to just buy a list or automatically sign people up without their express opt-in.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Johnn and Yax have upped the ante quite a bit – and we were pretty impressed, because we frankly couldn’t see much to improve. New Low Price When Gamer Lifestyle first opened, it cost $450, and slots for the course filled up fast. They even offer a payment plan for those who can’t come up with the $250 all at once (3 payments of $97).

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MAY 16, 2010

It’s easy to fall into the trap of emailing off four, five, or more guest posts quickly and then expecting to see your work on the blog of your choice the very next day. If in doubt, a polite email to the site owner may be in order. It’s perfectly acceptable to email your contact and ask about the status of your post.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Dissecting a WordPress Blog Crash Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 10:06 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging This is a really long, detailed post for anyone who may ever have to sort through the labyrinth of possibilities in the aftermath of a blog crash. Please try again now.

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MAY 11, 2010

Allow me to tell you: We’ve overhauled, revamped and created a truly extraordinary resource for fiction writers everywhere, and we’ve packaged it up into a very entertaining and useful book called How to Create Believable Characters. I agree with you that 2010 is looking pretty up for everyone! Thanks James!) Life is good.

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MARCH 30, 2010

Get RSS right here Get email updates here Recent Posts What to Do When You Feel Like You Can’t Catch Up How to Take the Next Step in Your Freelance Career What To Do When Clients Haggle Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You? Reply Go ahead. Leave a Comment! Click here to cancel reply. Powered by frugal

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MARCH 9, 2010

Should you ever be in a situation where you’re trying to explain to someone why getting online is a really, really good idea, tell that person this: People Don’t Use the Yellow Pages Anymore When was the last time you hauled the business directory off the shelf and looked up a business when you needed one? I’m betting it’s been a long time.

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MARCH 8, 2010

Do you want to leave it to your children and have them continue operations or close up shop? That means possibly posting something to your blog, sending out a press release, tweeting a public notice or emailing clients. Write something up, just in case. Do you want to leave it to a partner or one of your staff? So go ahead.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Working with other people opens up vast potential and plenty of windows to better opportunities. Want an added bonus of teaming up? It’s easy to find people you could team up with. Sign up for Twitter or Facebook and start talking to freelancers you like. You can even send an email just to say hi.

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APRIL 25, 2010

Anyways, he sent in this great guest post, and I wanted to post it up on a Friday, but then there was… that… thing I had to do. And… well, it’s a bit late but… I finally got this post up for you to read (to the end) and enjoy. Check your email. Look up “foolscap” on Wikipedia. Straighten up your files.

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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. In less than 5 emails, in fact. This is perhaps my most important rule of thumb, whether writing books, blog posts, or emails.

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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. Jott takes the spoken messages and turns them into text. Makes editing, storing and searching data easy.

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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. So you sign up for courses. Customers end up with spiffy businesses that rake in clients and money, and the freelancer goes barefoot, with a neglected business that’s falling apart.

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MAY 19, 2010

So how do you keep winding up working until 3 am to make up for lost time? If you drop everything to take a long lunch with a friend, you’re going to wind up taking two hours out of your workday. Let the answering machine pick up the phone and focus on getting that work out of the way. You have the hours available to you.

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JULY 14, 2010

Remember what Woody Allen once said: “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” You should become an authority in your field, deliver outstanding service with every project, and stay up-to-date in your chosen specialty. You don’t have to be visible to everyone, just the people most likely to hire you.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

An even HUGER section on how to handle your clients, including how to write a proposal that gets accepted , how to give the perfect quote, how to nail that first draft, and how to handle clients that are straight-up jerks. No one is going to go through all the skills and tools you need to set up the business. No excuses. Carry on, now.

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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. Run a contest This is a great way to drum up interest in your services. Just make sure you pay up in the end.

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MARCH 21, 2010

It’s kind of like matching up a Mercedes engine with a Toyota Corolla’s exterior. Is it common to take “creative liberties&# among copywriters and just make up a complete bogus story to sell the product better? Her comment was one heck of a wake-up call that taught me a valuable lesson. Ragnar´s last blog.

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MARCH 28, 2010

It could even end up causing damage to your business as you try to fit the square-shaped suggestions into your round-shaped business. I ended up using one of the Website Consultants from Cyber-solverZ which although got the job done I always wonder if I could have gotten more. That should go right up there with Niebu.

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MARCH 16, 2010

So you’re up there on a cloud or something and some other spirit-guy, maybe your friend, comes by your cloud and says, “Hey. If the world had ended and you were up on a cloud right now thinking about it, would you have been proud of yesterday? Checking email, reading blogs, watching videos on Hulu. What was your last day like?”

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JUNE 13, 2010

I had a wicked grin on my face when I took him up on the offer – I can ask some pretty tricky and insightful questions that pack a punch to get the best answers. Dean: A model of the Star Ship Enterprise that lights up and makes photon torpedo sounds. Of course, there are the phone calls and urgent emails from clients I have to field.

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APRIL 4, 2010

And what’s holding you back from finally deciding to fix it up better than ever? I’ve been calling on outside help for different aspects of setting up my business. There’s a hell of a lot to learn about setting up an online biz. The sky’s the limit. Thank you for the killer recommendation! Reply Go ahead.

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MARCH 23, 2010

You can explain that a few of the things they tell you will wind up in their actual web copy, so you’d love their help to create tone and a realistic voice. Hear a Voice The other option is to call up your client and ask that they talk to you like a human being. No problem, we say. You aren’t a scary HR person. Make it fun.

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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.&# Someone wrote an email to “Mr. We have this.

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MAY 9, 2010

Sometimes we’d forget to ask a question and have to send a new email to confirm a detail – that wastes time. We added new questions that had been cropping up more often and we took out questions that weren’t really necessary. So ‘fess up. It ends up being a 2 or 3 step questionnaire. Except the times when we didn’t.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Even you – yes, you – the reader who never comments or says anything, but who still shows up all the time – you’re a part of this community, too. You’ve placed a profound trust in us to give you sound advice, and we try to live up to that trust every day. Reply Henri @ Wake Up Cloud December 23, 2009 at 5:18 am You guys rock.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

If you shortchange yourself and have ask for a second extension because you aren’t quite up to snuff yet, your clients aren’t going to be nearly as nice about it. It’s not like you’re having some sort of emotional trauma because your girlfriend just broke up with you and you wish you could just curl up into a ball.

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