Heard It At The Ink Well | Writing Coach Pro | 15 Spots Left

February 10, 2010

Writing Coach Pro launches on February 15 as an intense, business related group coaching program.  Maya Payne Smart has considerable experience as a successful freelance writer and speaker.  She has now developed a program to share the experience she has gained throughout her career. Writing Coach Pro will be kept at as a small group [...]

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Beautiful Blogging | Virtual Assistants Exchange Information | Vanetworking.com

February 7, 2010

I suspect there is NEVER a really, truly level of knowing almost everything about blogging!

Just about the time it seems that we’ve figured blogging out, something new turns up. Or we fall into some bug or we find something new to screw up.

Bugs — remember we’re working with fallible machines and software. Sometimes the bug comes with the equipment, sometimes there is a corrupted upload that can mess things up. We learn from one another at Vanetworking.com how to be patient and work our way through issues.

Virtual professionals are loathe to admit it, but they are just folks, error prone as anybody in the population. With blogs, it can be anything from a typo or botched grammar (just once in awhile) to that moment of absent mindedness when something valuable is deleted forever. The colossal screw up is waiting for each one of us. We run screaming for assistance and rescue to our fellow members at Vanetworking.com.

The new things are the most fun, of course. New gimmicks on the frames and software attract us like moths to a flame. Ways that we finally see blogging can serve our clients as well as ourselves in the social media realm. Sharing new tidbits and the ways to work with them is a pizza party equivalent at Vanetworking.com .

Blogging is beautiful and the virtual assistant members of Vanetworking.com know how to work that beauty to make it more magical.

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Know-It-All Virtual Assistants know Vanetworking.com

February 7, 2010

Clients sometimes are convinced that their virtual assistant knows everything. And they are pretty close to right. Often because of affiliation with networks such as Vanetworking.com.
The specific skills of any virtual professional are humanly limited. Each person will excel at several thing such as software or accounting or transcription or design [...]

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Successful Freelance Writers | Writing Coach Pro

February 5, 2010

Freelance Writers must view themselves as a business.  They cannot afford to apply a hit-or-miss fashion, but approach business management seriously.
No matter what business challenges you may be facing, No matter what may be holding you back from the security and success you desire, Writing Coach PRO will give you the tools, strategies and support you need [...]

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Networking | I learned from Vanetworking.com

February 4, 2010

What I needed to learn about networking had a base in the information provided to me and shown to me by other virtual assistant members of Vanetworking.com
Vanetworking.com is a NETWORK that serves virtual professionals for career growth and management along with camaraderie with peers.
Within the network, members have multiple opportunities to learn and to share [...]

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Bosnia Today | Jeffrey Warner | Sarajevo Evolution

February 3, 2010

Jeffrey Warner A Life Journey is a blog worth your attention. I won’t tell you that every post is one that I completely agree with or even endorse; A Life Journey is clearly the work of a professional journalist.   I ‘met’ Jeffrey in a freelance writer’s group at LinkedIn.   When he mentioned [...]

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Freelance Writing Freedom | How do You Spell F-R-E-E?

January 31, 2010

Are you getting to the point in your freelance writing career where you wonder where the freedom is?
Are you satisfied with your freedom to write the art that appeals to you and let editors take the hindmost when they don’t choose to publish your work?
Are you content to be free in the sense of not [...]

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We Love Our Mail Deliverers | A Postal Team of Angels

January 30, 2010

Our mail isn’t delivered at the door, so the postman can’t knock twice, thrice or even once!
I love the exercise of walking the uphill block to the county road and the little rank of mailboxes visited by the USPS. Usually I make the climb to pick up mail sent to me.
Sometimes the trip is reversed.  [...]

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Vanetworking Blog of the Month | E-Zone Secretarial Services

January 28, 2010

The network of virtual assistants at Vanetworking.com recognizes the value of blogging as an essential element of social media.
Part of that recognition comes with peers acknowledging the blogging efforts of a special member each month and awarding the Blog of the Month award.
Recently, Janet Jankowiak of E-Zone Secretarial Services received that recognition to start of [...]

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Vaccolade |Online Virtual Office Solutions

January 28, 2010

Regularly, the virtual assistant members of Vanetworking.com acknowledge one of their members with an Accolade — the Vaccolade award as a business entrepreneur in the virtual world.
Recently, Dianna Lambert of Online Virtual Office Solutions received this acknowledgment from her peers.
Dianna is a shining example of how the virtual world can be used to provide service [...]

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