Quick VBL Poll: Do you Work 9-5, or are you Rockin’ it as your Own Boss already?

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Short, sweet and to the point today, guys… I’m on my way to Singapore over the weekend for a little mini-vacation and a few days of decompression with my wife. We like to get away regularly. In the meantime, I wanted to ask one very simple question to get a clear understanding as to the type of people I now have visiting…

Replace Yourself Like a Ninja: How I’ve Disappeared from Another Business!

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Over the last six weeks, I have seen an incredible boost to the sales numbers over at Virtual Staff Finder. Since we launched the service back in September this year, we’ve done good, steady business – but, since the beginning of the year we’ve experienced roughly a 30% increase in sign-up’s. This has done two things…

Outsourcing Work to Your First VA: Nightmare or Dream Come True?

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Hiring your first VA can be somewhat of a nightmare. For those of you who have done it, you know what I’m talking about. Your VA isn’t responding to your emails. The work they’re doing is less than desirable. And you just can’t figure out why it’s so hard for them to understand how to get things done for your business…

The Value of TRUE Community – Happy Birthday VBL (Plus: Win one of my VA’s!)

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Last week this blog turned 365 days old, celebrating its first birthday… Candles were not blown out – but, nonetheless I still celebrated a little. Considering that most blogs created never last past a few months of consistent blogging, any blog getting to its first birthday is a remarkable achievement, lets face it…

Ask Chris #002: How to Work with Virtual Assistants (3 Top Questions Answered!)

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I have written tons of posts on the subject of virtual assistants, recorded a full series of free video tips on the subject for my YouTube Channel, and been interviewed time and time again on the topic. Yet, the subject of VA’s and how to find them, train them, work with them, etc., is probably still one of the most…

Announcing the Launch of the All-New Virtual Business Lifestyle!

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It’s been a whole month in the making, and has had countless hours spent on the design and overall concept of the site – all focused on the future. I am extremely happy with it! And I hope you guys love it, too. You’ll see that the focus of the site is now COMPLETELY on the content, along with the VBL Core4 of Entrepreneurship

VBL Discussion: What’s Your Number One Virtual Assistant Tip?

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Part of the ‘VBL Core4′, as I have recently started to refer to them as, is Outsourcing. When it comes to lifestyle design, we look more towards personal outsourcing…

October 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report (Includes My BlogWorld2010 Report)

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Number of Days in the Office: 7, Total Number of Employees: 212 Ah… It’s good to be back! October was a whirlwind of a month, I must say. Above you’ll find a little (4mins) montage of my trip to the USA. I actually have a TON of footage I shot over there this time around, [...]

3 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building A Business Online

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This guest post by Milt Baron is part of the VBL Guest Post Month!. When entrepreneurs make the leap from real world offline business to online Internet business it can be tricky to know the best way to go about building your online presence. With so much conflicting information around and different approaches for different [...]

How to Take Charge of Your OWN Virtual Lifestyle!

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This guest post by Yolanda A. Facio is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! It sounds exciting…sitting on the beach with a fruity exotic umbrella drink and tapping away at the keyboard of your laptop, waves crashing 5 feet away, mmmmmmmmm. Sounds great!  But it also sounds very, very far away… I’m here to tell [...]

Moonlighting Your Way To Running Your Own Show!

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This guest post by Christine Livingston is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! You might think that jumping from cubicle warrior to entrepreneurial ninja is like leaping from one tall building to another: something best left to super heroes and folks with way more courage than you. Yet, with your job satisfaction on the [...]

Virtual Office Tips for Virtual Business Success!

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This guest post by Valerio Paolini is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! Today, we have the pleasure to see a guest video post from Valerio Paolini all the way from Rome, Italy. In this clip, Valerio shares practical tips on how to take your business to new heights utilizing virtual office magic tricks! Valerio [...]

Alone and Stuck With Your Online Business? Join a Mastermind Group TODAY!

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This guest post by Juha Liikala is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! I guess we’ve  all been there. You wake up, check your blog’s statistics for the morning, open up your blog and start thinking about what would be your next step. What can you do to make it better. No new comments today, is [...]

Lessons From the Corporate World: Tips for Outsourcing Business Tasks

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This guest post by Eric Gati is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! If you’re reading this post right now on Virtual Business Lifestyle, chances are you’ve at least heard of virtual assistants, and are perhaps interested in finding one or finding out how to utilize them effectively.  Congratulations, you’re already more advanced than [...]

3 Awesome Steps to Virtual CEO Success

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This guest post by Ben Lumley is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! There are 3 keys to achievement: Common Sense, Hard work and Stick-with-it-ness – Thomas Edision I wanted to look at something that a lot of the readers of virtualbusinesslifestyle.com will be very familiar with, Chris’s goal of becoming a Virtual CEO by [...]

How To Use Paper to Help Your Business Virtualize!

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This guest post by Stu Lustman is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! I’m Stu Lustman and I virtualize some but very little of my business so far. Disclaimer: I am trying to virtualize more than I do now.  Also, I may bring up technical topics but I am not a techie. My business is [...]

Entrepreneurs: How’s Your Karma?

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This guest post by Adrian Swinscoe is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! Many of you will be familiar with the concept of karma. According to karma theory, every action has a consequence and good acts will have positive results and bad acts will produce negative results. In more common terms, karma is explained [...]

Top 3 Surefire Ways To Effectively Delegate To Your Virtual Team

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This guest post by Michelle Dale is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! Have you ever delegated to your virtual team but been frustrated with the finished result? It just wasn’t what you were expecting, and you didn’t feel that your VA really understood what you were trying to get at. Well, you’re not alone, [...]

3 Daringly Different Ways To Run A Company From 3 Dangerously Different Countries!

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This is a Guest Post by Jonny Gibaud, founder of Emergency Food Storage. So it is guest post month of Virtual Business Lifestyle and so fittingly I have written a quest post. I know, I am very much on the ball. For those that have never heard of me, My names is Jonny and I [...]

Going the Cheap Route and Learning along the Way: How NOT to Hire Virtual Staff!

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This guest post by Jaime Tardy is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! I only work 20 hours per week and after reading the Virtual Business Lifestyle and talking with Maren Kate, I thought a virtual assistant could push my business forward faster. I coach local entrepreneurs but wanted to branch out online. I [...]

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