Tag Archive: social media

OMG! Could Technology be Ruining your Professional Reputation?

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There is absolutely no doubt about the fact that technology has changed the way we live, work and play.  It’s changing every day in fact!  We don’t have to leave home to do research, rent a movie, shop, or even see our friends’ faces.  It’s truly amazing how quickly and dramatically technology has changed our…

What You Can Learn from @Charter about Social Media

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As a Virtual Online Technology Assistant and a small business owner who has had a good deal of success using social media I’m often asked by others about how to use social media successfully for their own businesses.  Often I feel I have disappointed them when I explain why I feel social media has worked…

Are You a Twitter Menace?

I’ve talked about Twitter Do’s and Don’ts before. Today I want to talk about making sure you’re not a Twitter menace. So just what is a Twitter menace?  Those people that are using Twitter as a bullhorn rather than a communication device. Are you guilty of the following? Hourly auto-posting of advertisement type tweets Responding…

Getting Clients-Building Trust

I hear you out there. Those unspoken responses to my previous post. You know, the one where I said that getting clients wasn’t about price?  Yeah, that one.  And you’re thinking,  “Those points are well and good if you have clients already, but how do you build trust in the beginning. You know, when you’re…

Social Media Time Savers for Virtual Assistants

If  you follow me on Twitter you’ll have noticed that for the past week or so I’ve sent out a tweet that looks like the one below every day: The virtual-assistants Daily is a compilation of tweets, links, RT’s and information shared on Twitter by the other virtual assistants I follow there.  I started it…

$60,000 a year to Tweet?

listening to the weekly podcast “Word on the Tweet“, a show that focuses solely on all things Twitter, the Multnomah County, Oregon Social Media Coordinator Position was one of the topics of conversation.  If you’re not familiar, Multnomah County is looking to hire someone to use social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, which may…

Professionalism is Priceless. Lack of Professionalism? Costly.

In my last post, regarding virtual assistants on Twitter I used the term professionalism as something that those searching for a VA should look for when scrutinizing the many choices available to them.  But in this day and age of social media, just how important is professionalism.  I mean, don’t the masses of home office…

Experienced Virtual Assistants on Twitter?

I use Twitter. I use it to communicate with others, get my questions answered and learn new things for my business and for me personally.  These things are all great. But there is one more way that I use it, that gave me the basis for today’s post. I monitor it for feedback on virtual…

Do you believe in Social Media?

I’m a Virtual Assistant on a mission.  I feel the need to find a way to educate the masses to the awesomeness of social media.  And I need your input.  Check out my post ” Can Virtual Assistants Educate the Masses?” over at Home Office Warrior in the Virtual Assistant section.