This is a great article on multitasking. For years, while working for corporate America, the one question that always seemed to be asked during interviews was “Are you a multitasker?” or “Can you multitask?” I have always disliked this term because you simply cannot devote…
Several weeks ago there was a thread in one of the forums I frequent about how they got scammed into giving all their private information to what they thought was PayPal. Instead it was an unknown party who just gained access to not only their…
A client of mine wrote this great article for her newsletter and I thought it was appropriate to add it here. As a business owner, she “gets it” when it comes to making the decision whether to outsource, hire an assistant or just plain seek…
I was speaking with a client this week as she was trying to explain to me the problem she was seeing on her computer monitor. I asked her if she could send me a screenshot, but she wasn’t sure how. I tend to take for…
Today was graduation day for me…from physical therapy that is. The short story is that I had a very severe ankle sprain that happened at the end of June and after several doctor appointments and four weeks of physical therapy later, I am finally finished…
Are you overwhelmed, understaffed or just plain tired of not having any spare time? Are you spending too much time on tasks you don’t enjoy doing? Well then, it is time for you to re-evaluate your business and personal priorities and consider hiring a Virtual…
Whether you attended the inaugural Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC) last week or not, the silent auction is still well under way. The silent auction contains more than 40 donated items from administrative assistant retainer packages to books to VA training and more. It…