Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
As a Virtual Assistant, I’m tracking many things on the internet every day using a browser. Among them are client email accounts, calendars, and social media.
For my own business, I’m constantly looking at my email, project management software, my calendar, my contact database, and more. And that’s...
Did you know that you can export the information associated with a profile on LinkedIn? It’s a great way to get the email addresses for your connections, export your recommendations so you can add them to your clients’ (or your) website, or look at the history of your messages.
This is not an intui...
Several years ago, I began offering potential clients a free, 30-minute call phone call with me to talk about their business. No sales pitch, no pressure, just a 30-minute conversation about anything they wanted to talk about.
I make it easy for people to sign up for these sessions. All they have t...
Back in the dark ages, when I first learned to type, I was taught to add two spaces following every period. Today, decades later, it’s a reflex almost like breathing.
In the digital age, the reason for that second space no longer exists. In fact, and because that extra space now “counts” as a chara...
I post to WordPress websites almost every day. Clients send me the text in a variety of forms – Word documents, Google Docs, sometimes they ask me to pull the text from a MailChimp or Constant Contact e-newsletter. Pretty straightforward, right?
But here’s the problem: the underlying formatting of ...
Ever wonder why some images you see in email newsletters have text right next to the image and others have a nice space around them?
In Constant Contact it’s called padding and in MailChimp it’s called margins.
To add more space around an image In Constant Contact, click on the image after it’s ...
I’ve been friends with Lisa for years. Decades, actually. She’s a rock-star real estate agent in Boston, and wow, she sure can sell houses.
The funny thing is, despite how long we’ve been friends, I’ve hardly ever been to her house. We almost always meet at a local restaurant for dinner.
The other...
