My desk at the Live2Sell Group HQ - Yes, the one I want to give away!

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 6mins

Number of Days in the Office: 13, Total Number of Employees: 213

So, here we go with another monthly round-up as I get closer and closer to approaching my end of year goal, and becoming that (hopefully) full-time Virtual CEO. First up, I spent considerably less time in the office this past month, which is great. This wasn’t actually down to me making sure I did this, however, it simply ‘just happened’ as I have been focusing on different projects and have been working more from home to stay focused throughout the ‘creative’ stage on things.

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Location: Company HQ – Reading / Viewing Time: 20mins

Part of the Virtual Business Lifestyle revolves around entrepreneurship and passive income streams. Video blogging is hot stuff right now – it seems that almost every blogger online today is at least flirting with it in some way. There are several that are utilizing it exclusively, like today’s special guest and good friend, Tyrone Shum. You’ve no doubt already heard my interview with Tyrone in a recent Podcast. However, as he is one of the best video bloggers I personally know, I wanted to get him back for a more in-depth look at this specific topic.

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Utilizing technology, particularly the technology available to us online and for free, is paramount for any wannabe location independent entrepreneur. There are a multitude of services and online tools out there to help you become more mobile and start to embrace your very own Virtual Business Lifestyle. Instead of listing all of them down here, I thought it would be best to let you in on the five main tools I use personally, in order to remain as virtual as possible and work in a seamless way when I am traveling, or simply ‘out of the office’.

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 5mins

If you’re already a subscriber of the Virtual Business Lifestyle blog (this happens automatically when you download my free eBook) you would have already received a couple of emails in relation to my new Virtual Assistant match-making service, Virtual Staff Finder, as we did a ’soft’ launch last Thursday.

In a nutshell, the service was put together to bridge the outsourcing gap between entrepreneurs that want a hard working, experienced home-based VA, but one that is selected and ‘checked out’ in a more professional way, with the entrepreneur doing pretty much nothing in the process, accept making the final ‘hire’ decision.

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Featured on the same page as Steve Jobs and CNBC - Wow!

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 Moleskine throughout the month on things that I want to mention, and this month is a real corker!

Because so much took place this month, I am going to make this a bullet-point type of post to make it easier for you all the read and get stuck into. So, here we go:

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