Whatever you are hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA) to do, and regardless what you are paying them to do the job, there are still financial benefits to be realized and enjoyed. Consider this, when you hire an employee you need a physical place for them to do the work. A desk, chair, supplies, and various...Continue reading
Author: Deborah Taylor
Duplicate Yourself – Hire a Virtual Assistant
Do you ever wish you had more time in the day to get things done? Or better yet, be able to split yourself in two so that half can do one set of tasks and the other half can take care of the rest? Well for most of us cloning isn’t an option, and that...Continue reading
Can You Pass Blogging 101?
To understand blogs, you need to start with the lingo. Once you have that down you are well on your way to knowing exactly what a blog is and how to navigate through the virtual world with this awesome communication tool. Blogging 101 is simply the terms used in blogging. Without looking below, do you...Continue reading
Delegating
Delegating tasks to others is one very good time management and productivity tool. When time constraints and impending deadlines are looming, it is not the weak person, but the strong one, that can assign some of the load to others. “Many hands make light work”! We all tend to bite off more than we can...Continue reading
Goal Setting
Goal setting is a great motivator, as well as a key ingredient for effectively managing time and tracking accomplishments. Goals are normally categorized as short term, medium term, and long term, depending on the amount of time required or available to reach them. They can include any number of specific tasks to be completed, and...Continue reading
Time – Your Non-Renewable Resource
All resources have a direct relationship between supply and demand. Time has the same relationship. But where some resources can be replenished, time cannot. It is non-renewable. Think about it. When we seem to have an overabundance of time on our hands we waste it. We sit idle, watch TV, play games, or whatever. The...Continue reading
What kinds of tasks can be outsourced?
There are many tasks that you do every day in your business that can be outsourced. Most are pretty obvious like bookkeeping, meeting arrangements, telephone calls, and typing correspondence as examples, but these are really only a handful of the jobs, big and small, that can be handed over to an outsource provider. Let’s look...Continue reading
Are you controlling your outsourcing or is it controlling you?
Outsourcing can definitely be a time and money saver, but if you aren’t aware of some of its potential problems it can control you rather than you controlling it. As you are thinking about outsourcing some of your business tasks, consider the following: Do you know who you are dealing with? Outsource providers work remotely,...Continue reading
Benefits of Outsourcing
Being in business for yourself doesn’t mean you have to do everything yourself in order to make sure things are running smoothly. Face it, you only have two hands and there are only so many hours in a day. There comes a point when realize you aren’t superhuman and you do need some help. Outsourcing...Continue reading
Success Does Not Come Overnight
Many opportunities exist today to be successful online, but regardless of what you read and hear success does not come overnight, and it doesn’t come without a lot of time, energy and hard work. Like starting any business, you should have the required knowledge and experience, but you should also have the determination, commitment, perseverance,...Continue reading