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 [...]

10 Things I Learned Working With a Virtual Assistant for the First Time!

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This post by Craig Jarrow, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. While growing my site for the past 2 years, at some point I realized that I personally could not do all the work. As things started to take off, I faced the dilemma that many successful online entrepreneurs experience: Simply too much work for one [...]

How to Outsource Your Membership Course the Right Way, the First Time!

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This post by Ainslie Hunter, is part of ‘VBL Guest Post Season 2′. So you want to create an online course.  Excellent.  How long do you think it will take?  10 hours?  A month?  Maybe you will presell the idea and then scramble to complete the course. Whoa Nelly.  Before you put the sales page [...]

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 [...]

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…

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, [...]

Baby Boomers and the Virtual Business Lifestyle!

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This guest post by Steve Thomas is part of the VBL Guest Post Month! Most blogs and articles about online business are geared toward the twenty or thirty something crowd. These young people have become disillusioned with the world of work and want to spend more time traveling and enjoying life. Fine for them, but [...]

How Much Do You Pay a Home-Based Virtual Assistant from the Philippines?

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Over the last month or so, since I launched the Virtual Staff Finder service I have received a ton of questions in regards to working with virtual assistants, training them, looking after them, and paying them. In fact, the one that I have probably received the most questions on is how much to pay different [...]

May 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report

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Location: Company HQ – Reading Time: 5-6mins Number of Days in the Office: 19, Total Number of Employees: 186 So, another month passes, and I am now officially just 7 months away from my target of becoming a Full-Time Virtual CEO. Will I hit it? You bet your ass I will…! I don’t set targets [...]

Want Success in Business? Get Some GREAT Support, NOW!

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Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 8mins Pictured with me above is my Personal Assistant, Stephanie (she’ll kill me for posting this photo, but – too late!). Steph helps me with my day-to-day business tasks, and definitely plays a big part in me achieving what I achieve every day – whether I’m working from the [...]

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

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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 [...]

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: [...]

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