The topic of finding your ideal client or target market (sometimes called niche) is one of importance but seems to continuously get underestimated by virtual assistants. Well, most small business owners really.
Now I know you are seeking clients and you could be saying, “Well, Teresa, everyone needs a virtual assistant”.
As this statement may seem to [...]

Last week, I had an aspiring entrepreneur contact me and ask me if she could ‘pick my brain’. She was stuck in the corporate world and described herself as ‘obsessed with entrepreneurship’. She felt like her job was sucking her dry, and said she had a driving desire to start a business support/virtual assistant business [...]

Do you know there’s more to passive income than selling ad space and affiliate programs?
There is.
Yet many of the bloggers I see don’t seem to know that. And if they do, they’re not utilizing other forms of potential passive income. I see this as a bit of a tragedy since most bloggers are looking to [...]

Remember the Seinfeld episode when Jerry’s parents phone to announce their plans to move in with him?
Jerry: They’re not going back to Florida. They’re moving here.
George: What? Why?
Jerry: Because your parents are going down there. My buffer zone just went from twelve hundred miles down to two feet! You gotta do something.
George: Hey, I’m sorry, [...]

If you want to run banner ads on your self-hosted WordPress blog, you have a number of hurdles you need to overcome. And if you aren’t very HTML or PHP savvy, then it’s even a little more challenging.
I use OpenAds to run the ads on Sparkplugging.com. It is a full-featured ad server that displays ads, [...]

I’ve been fairly productive this morning, so much so that I didn’t want to stop to write a dang Monday Motivation post! But then I saw a post from Lynn, who is a brand-new participant in MM, so I felt I kind of had to keep the tradition going.
That being said, you were [...]

I will tell you right away my take on this controversy: I do not think a person has to have a virtual assistant certification.
Now, before some of you start yelling at me through your computers, allow me to add a few things and further explain myself.
I am not saying acquiring a certification is a bad [...]