Kick-Start Your Online Empire TODAY! Announcing My NEW Company (Woot!)

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Six months in the making, and my new company is finally a GO! It’s your new one stop shop for everything project-based outsourcing related. We’ve been beta testing for months, and received rave reviews from our early clients. So, I’m super excited to now officially share with you my new company… YourWebPA.com!

My Speaking Experience at BlogWorld LA, and Why YOU Should Have Attended!

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November 3rd, 2011 was a special day… I had the pleasure of speaking at the biggest annual blogging, social media, podcasting and new media summit in the world – BlogWorld Expo, in LA. It was another fantastic event, so I thought I’d show you a few photos and tell you a little more about it all…

Word to the Wise: 3 Things You Shouldn’t Outsource – Ever!

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This post by Timo Kiander, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Outsourcing is an evergreen topic in the world of online entrepreneurs. This is quite understandable. Any business requires our efforts (whether when starting up or running it) and quite soon we may feel stressed out because of our workload. Especially if you [...]

How to Totally, Miserably, Completely and Utterly FAIL… at Outsourcing!

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This post by Sarah Russel, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Coming to Chris’s “Virtual Business Lifestyle” site always makes me feel happy.  From the smiling pictures of the virtual assistants working for his companies to the positive advice on how outsourcing tasks can revolutionize your business, it’s hard not to leave his [...]

Online Business 101: How To Dominate Google Without Lifting A Finger

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This post by Dan Norris, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. The whole point of engaging a virtual assistant is to free you up to focus on the things that matter. So does this mean getting your VA to do all of the little things that aren’t important enough for you to do [...]

How to Outsource… The Hassle Free Way to Train Your Virtual Staff!

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This post by Matt Hooper, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. As an outsourcing master, Chris will probably be the first person to tell you that achieving success with your virtual staff depends on you as much as it does on your virtual staff. When you are adding virtual staff to your business, [...]

Can’t Manage the 4-Hour Work Week..? Why Not Try The 4 Year Vacation!!!

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This post by Michelle Dale, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. Many of you would have heard about the “4 Hour Work Week,” and for many it’s pretty much impossible to keep on top of personal email and general business in 4 hours a week, let alone making that the extent of the [...]

Niche Site Project – 2nd Monthly Report

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Here’s the second monthly update in an estimated six reports that will go live charting the growth and earnings of just ONE niche site, generating passive income via Adsense and more. If you’ve not been following the Niche Site Project that kicked off a couple of months ago here at the VBL Blog, hop on our band-wagon now…

Niche Site Project – My Article Research, Creation and Posting Strategy – EXPOSED!

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As some of you may already know, a few weeks ago I announced my niche and domain for the VBL Community Niche Site Project, which went into full swing on July 11th. Along with monthly reports containing traffic numbers, adsense earnings, etc., I’ll be doing a few additional posts. Today I discuss my content creation strategy…

How to Outsource… Understanding Cultural Differences when Working with Filipino VA’s

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Today we kick-off my ‘How to Outsource…’ series with a video post outlining some of the cultural differences experienced between overseas employers and Filipino virtual assistants when working together. I’ve invited my Virtual Staff Finder project manager, Stephanie (herself a Filipina) to help me out… Enjoy!

The VBL Community ‘Niche Site Project’… PLUS – Unveiling My Own Niche Site!

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Just a couple of short weeks ago I published a VBL Discussion Post on the subject of niche sites, where I mentioned that I was challenging myself to start my first ‘true’ niche site online, a ton of VBLer’s said they wanted to join in… It’s not a competition, its a Community Project. Here’s the low-down…

How to Outsource… Announcing My All-New “Mini Guide” Post Series!

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I’ve been involved in the Outsourcing industry for 10-years. I have over 250 full-time employees working for me at my facility in the Philippines, and I’ve worked on all types of outsourced projects, some with hundreds of workers, and some at the other end of the spectrum, with small, boot-strapping, entrepreneurial set-up’s…

Entrepreneurial Outsourcing – Tips from the Trenches!

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Over the last couple of Monday’s, myself and Dan Andrews have been talking about different aspects of the Virtual Business Lifestyle concepts, or the VBL CORE4 as I call them. In week 1 we covered Virtual Entrepreneurship, last week it was Passive Income and so, here we are for the third Monday in a row [...]

How, How, How… To, To, To…!

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Here’s the deal… I’ve experimented a lot on this blog. Written posts, audio / podcast posts, I’ve shot videos from all over the world and posted articles from more cities than I can remember! And I’ve had a blast doing it all. However, the is one very important, very BIG change on the horizon for the VBL Blog…

When Is A Virtual Assistant Not A Virtual Assistant…!!?

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For those of you who are new to this concept and still trying to learn what a “virtual assistant” actually is, you will undoubtedly find a lot of different options available for you to choose from, and not every virtual assistant option maybe right for you, so here is a quick “VA 101” which I have put together for you…

The VBL Guide to: Creating a Kick-Ass Free eBook to Build Your Brand (Part 3 of 3)

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The final installment to this 3-part series on how to create an eBook to give away for free to help build your brand online. Today I present to you my Top 10 List of additional things you can do to help promote and market your eBook to make sure that as many people as possible download it, by subscribing to your blog…

The VBL Guide to: Creating a Kick-Ass Free eBook to Build Your Brand (Part 1 of 3)

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Today we start our 3-part series on how to create a kick-ass free eBook which you can use to help build your brand and promote your blog. We begin with taking a look at Creating the Concept of your eBook, the time-honored question of ‘Quality, or Quantity’ and how important the Design and Layout of your eBook is to the reader…

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…

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