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become a trainer or coach Have you built up your practice successfully only to run into this dilemma? First up on December 15, 2009 , is “Facebook Up Close and Personal,&# presented by Andrea Kalli. build a virtual team b. sub out the work c. Where are you on that continuum?

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JUNE 19, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos – Part 3 (reporting & fans) Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4:19 pm // By: // Category: Baseball Today, he drove to Tempe, to the Angels Tempe Diablo Stadium to report. Received equipment, signed up for his new insurance program (yeah!),

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MARCH 25, 2010

Should have discussed how to explain our afternoon’s activities before my little 5-year-old Bug’s mom came to pick her up, only to be greeted with: “Mom! I am at A Good Yarn in Prescott drumming up students for a class on Ravelry I am going to be teaching. Today I dyed!&# That’s such a terrific color!

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JUNE 15, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Do you resumé or not? Recently I had a conversation with a resumé expert (who will remain unnamed until or if she decides to weigh in on this matter) about the merits of keeping your resumé tuned up just in case. So… how about it?

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JUNE 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Regional Virtual Assistant Retreat? In Arizona, we’re gearing up for a late summer meeting for Virtual Assistants. Strategies for managing those feelings include volunteering, participating in face-to-face networking, and hosting gatherings of one’s peers.

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JANUARY 25, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Taking Care of Each Other Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 5:53 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Travel These times provide lots of opportunities for extending simple kindnesses, and taking care of “our chother,&# as my children called it when they were tiny.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Where in the World is Sharon Williams? You can follow Sharon as she travels the Web answering challenging questions about the VA industry. Monday, April 12, 2010 at 11:58 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Or, how can I play and win?!

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APRIL 28, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Have you got game? I’m hearing of more folks conjuring up a little home-based business after having been laid off and fear that those not possessing the entrepreneur gene are in for a tough fight.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs My 2010 Theme: “Fit&# Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 12:58 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant No resolutions for me this year. Nope, I’m keeping it simple by choosing a theme, which is the word “fit.&#

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MARCH 30, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Time for another NAVA meetup Monday, March 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources Do you meet up with your colleagues regularly? In times like these, it feels good to share ideas and extend a helping hand.

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MARCH 30, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Time for another NAVA meetup Monday, March 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources Do you meet up with your colleagues regularly? In times like these, it feels good to share ideas and extend a helping hand.

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Off the needles! I have made this once, previously, and it knits up quickly, in just a few hours. As with the little hat pattern, I have made these up previously, in baby alpaca, and pictures and details are available via the link at the bottom of this post.

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MARCH 26, 2009

Any of these is perfect to pick up while I watch the pollen blow around outside my window. Springtime also heralds the start of allergy season, and this means more time spent indoors than I would like. But right now is a moment to stop and savor.

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MAY 13, 2009

Many FREE giveaways have been lined up for attendees, and below are the links to access the online meeting room. The Janet Jordan Achievement Award and the Thomas Leonard Virtual Assistant of Distinction Award will be announced during this live event, which is open to the public. We look forward to having you join us in the celebration.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

That inspirational pat on the back shows up from time to time in my work, and it’s posts like this one about losing everything and this one about finding faith in your dreams again that leave me feeling good just for reading them. Our blog archives are our history, in more ways than just which post went up on that day.

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Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Letting the Sparks Fly Posted on 07/20/2012 // Leave a Comment Today is a travel day. 1 I don’t have a lot to say as a result, mainly because I don’t have the time to say it. More on this next week.

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Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Be Nimble, Then Quick Posted on 07/09/2012 // Leave a Comment In the nursery rhyme “ Jack Be Nimble ”, have you ever noticed that speed comes up after agility? ” I don’t think that it comes first just because it would otherwise screw up the rhyme.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Tandem Social Networking Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 10:55 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Harry Caray may be one of the best networkers ever, moving thousands of tone-deaf Cub fans to stand and sing at the top of their lungs.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Doing so is essentially setting them up to become disillusioned with their work. Shared purpose is the glue that binds and motivates your team to turn up each day willing to give their best to your business. FAQs should be available to all. Rae is passionate about travel, food, and writing, of course.

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MARCH 17, 2009

SIGN UP DEADLINE for Wednesday March 18 event is noon eastern, so hurry on now! Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Roundup #4, Prescott Style: WordPress Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 11:13 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging A look at some good posts related to my favorite blogging platform, WordPress. There are a lot of tweets about this one right now.) Call for help?

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs All I need is $4.59 Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 10:37 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Family Life , Life of the Virtual Assistant I won’t tell you how long it’s been since I became a Google Adsense Publisher. But I WILL tell you I have only $4.59

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Turn Inaction into Action with The Ready Retreat Workbooks Posted on 01/07/2013 // Leave a Comment The blog has been dark over the weekend as I traveled and prepared for today’s panel discussion at New Media Expo in Las Vegas. Ready Retreat Workbook: Email Management - $14.99

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Redistributing your work-life balancing act? For entrepreneurs, it’s a little different, in that the slow down may have crept up on you. If you have lost your job, you had zero time to adjust. And, you may have a surplus of free time.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Calling all Northern Arizona Virtual Assistants: Is there anyone out there? If you reside in Northern Arizona and your VA practice meets the * criteria listed below, then you won’t want to miss this local meet-up of seasoned professionals. I may show up.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Please Mind Your Manners Monday, November 16, 2009 at 10:18 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Life of the Virtual Assistant Please bear with this veteran VA while she spouts off on some assaults on common courtesy she’s noted of late.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Give a care? Who wouldn’t love showing up once a week to pick up two tote bags full of flowers and veggies, picked just that morning?! Give a share! We have just finished our first year as happy CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) members.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Steeks & Felts, giving new life to timeworn objects Monday, September 14, 2009 at 2:25 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Fall is in the air and that was the inspiration for a weekend of “what was old is new again&# projects in the LooseKnit workshop.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos: First Spring Training Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:16 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Baseball , Sports I appreciate that I am still in business. Then, there was our family Oscar party when I dressed up as Annie Savoy, again in the jacket.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs WordPress 2.8 This cleaned up the admin panel, but the visual editor was still inoperable. update only took me 24 hours! The only remaining big mess was the admin panel which wasn’t seeing its intended CSS and image files.

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can you say “sidetracked?&# Maybe we can catch up with one another in March, during which I make the drive back and forth from here (Prescott) to Tucson often! Yes, I can see that we’ll have to meet up in March. It’s pretty funny.

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs When a client’s site cries out for help Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:39 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Web/Tech Like many small developers, I built a number of websites between 1998 and 2002 using the then standard approach of hand-coded HTML and, later, a web editing program.

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Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs After the dance is over Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 4:13 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Virtual Assistant Resources Whew and Wow. Next up : marriage of great minds and birth of dynamic new projects and partnerships.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Instead of letting the situation get to you and feeling down, you can put your free time to good use by: Keeping up : I guess “or be left out&# follows naturally, but then you probably already know that. And so I use my downtime to catch up on my social and familial responsibilities, to soothe ruffled feathers and make courtesy calls.

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JULY 10, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Roundup #5 Prescott Style Friday, July 10, 2009 at 2:26 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources A recent meeting with local VA bud Tara Fort , owner of Versatility4u.com , generated a list of resources you may want to review.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact iOS Only Posted on 01/30/2013 // 5 Comments I’ve left my trusty MacBook Air at home for the first time ever while traveling. With Poster set up on both devices as well, my regular publication schedule won’t be interrupted either. Too much money otherwise.

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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. Limited enrollment of 14.

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