July 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report

Virtual CEO - Chris Ducker's July Monthly Report

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 5mins Number of Days in the Office: 17, Total Number of Employees: 208 Happy Friday to each and every one of you! Wow. What a month… These monthly reports are always the posts that I enjoy putting together the most. What I do is jot down notes in my [...]

Personal Branding and The Art of Self Promotion

The Apprentice Season 3

Location: Home Office – Reading / Viewing Time: All-in, 30mins! First up, apologies for the relative silence last week. The only post that went live here on the blog last week was my excellent interview with “The Rise to the Top” founder and host, David Siteman Garland. So, this week I want to try and [...]

Customer Service – The ‘Forgotten’ Yin to the Yang in Business!

Customer Service

Location: Home Office – Reading / Viewing Time: 7mins In February this year I spent almost the entire month in the US, with my wife, traveling through San Francisco, Miami, LA and New York. On a trip like this we experienced quite a bit, as you can imagine. However, it was one particular experience that [...]

Virtual Staff Teams Are On The Increase – Ready to Join In…?

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Location: Company HQ – Reading Time: 4mins Its seems as if there are more and more companies ‘going global’ and merging / reorganizing than ever before right now. A lot of this hustle includes getting virtual staff involved, sometimes for the first time ever in the history of the company. A lot of the staff [...]

Can You Say "Outsourcing"? It’s Everywhere Right Now—Plus, a VA Believer Speaks Out!

an You Say Outsourcing

Location: Home Office – Reading & Viewing Time: 8mins BEFORE ANYTHING: If you are even remotely interested in outsourcing or the benefits that come from it, STOP READING and sign up for my FREE eBook NOW, to the right of the site! It seems that wherever you look online right now, everyone is talking about [...]

VBL002 – Passive Income: The SMART Way, with Pat Flynn!

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Last week I had the chance to sit down via Skype and speak with one guy that is completely Crushing It in the online world right now – Pat Flynn. Pat’s blog www.smartpassiveincome.com is one of the fastest growing blogs online right now, and he has been featured on ProBlogger as well as LifeHacker in [...]

How to Work with Virtual Staff to Build a Business Empire (Tips from the Trenches – via Manila!)

Dan Andrews

Location: At the Beach (Literally!) – Reading / Viewing Time: 9-10mins A real treat for you guys today. A couple of weeks ago I flew up from Cebu (where I live full time) to Manila (the capital of the Philippines) to do a little business, and whilst I was there I met up with Dan [...]

I’m Too Busy for Bullshit – The Things I’m Doing to Stay Productive!

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 4-5mins 2010 is shaping up to be an incredible year for me, business wise so far. As you’ll know by reading my Monthly Reports, by the end of the year I sincerely believe I will be a Full Time Virtual CEO, working from wherever I like, whenever I like, [...]

Life: It’s Just a Process!

Ben Lumley

Location: Starbucks, Cebu – Reading / Viewing Time: 6-7mins This is a guest post from online buddy and motivational speaker, Ben Lumley over at 6Aliens.com. I asked Ben to put this post together as I don’t really touch on the more ‘motivational’ side of blogging all that often (it’s just not my bag, baby – [...]

Task Automation: Two Top Tips and a Blues Lick to Boot!

Task Automation

Location: Home Office, Reading / Viewing Time: 3mins Hi Everyone, hope you all had a killer weekend, and enjoyed plenty of family time, as well as perhaps a little ‘work’ time, too! Today I have a guest post from my main man Dan, at TropicalMBA.com. Dan is the young entrepreneur personified and he is also [...]

Facebook Fan Pages – Bloggers Friend or Foe..? My First ‘Rant n Rave’ Post! (Was Bound to Happen Sooner or Later!)

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Location: Starbucks, Cebu – Reading Time 3mins UPDATE: So, I went live with this post literally about 8 hours ago, and as I wake up and start to enjoy my breakfast looking at the ocean here in Boracay, I figure I’ll check out the old Fan Page to see if it’s still gone. And would [...]

Facebook Fan Pages—Blogger's Friend or Foe? My First "Rant 'n' Rave" Post! (Was Bound to Happen Sooner or Later!)

Location: Starbucks, Cebu – Reading Time 3mins UPDATE: So, I went live with this post literally about 8 hours ago, and as I wake up and start to enjoy my breakfast looking at the ocean here in Boracay, I figure I’ll check out the old Fan Page to see if it’s still gone. And would [...]

17 Days 'Off Work', Lots of New Business, the King of the Blues and a Kung Fu Legend!

Working Remotely in San Francisco

Location: Company Offices, Reading Time: 4-5mins For regular readers of the Virtual Business Lifestyle blog, you’ll already know that I have been in the US for the last almost-three-weeks on my most recent ‘Pleasure Trip’. I even posted a video of my ‘mobile office’ before I left. It was probably one of the most successful [...]

Can Offshore Virtual Assistants Create Good Quality, Original Web Content? The Virtual Business Lifestyle Case Study – Day Three

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Location: New York, USA – Reading Time: 7mins So, if you’re a regular visitor to my blog, you’ll know that over the last two days I have been engaging in a case study to show you all that offshore virtual assistants are indeed very capable when it comes to creating good quality web content. If [...]

Can Offshore Virtual Assistants Create Good Quality, Original Web Content? The Virtual Business Lifestyle Case Study – Day Two

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Location: New York, USA – Reading Time: 7mins So, following on from yesterday’s post where my company’s chosen virtual assistant v wrote on cool online app’s for sharing and storing files online, organization and calendar sharing, today we continue with my case study, looking into the world of the Philippine Virtual Assistant, but more specifically [...]

Can Offshore Virtual Assistants Create Good Quality, Original Web Content? The Virtual Business Lifestyle Case Study – Day One

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Location: New York, USA – Reading Time: 7mins Outsourcing. It’s a funny old game! Over the last year I’ve gotten tons, and I mean TONS of emails from business owners and aspiring internet marketers asking if Philippine virtual assistants can handle tasks such as blogging and content creation for websites. Simple answer to the question: [...]

Passive Income: Fact or Fiction? Part 1 of 2

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Location: San Francisco, USA – Reading Time: 4mins This is the first of a two-part guest post from Maren Kate of Escapingthe9to5.com Are you sick of the rat race yet? Or maybe you love your job but still want to earn some extra cash. If so have you ever considered the idea of ‘passive income‘? [...]

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