Author: Web Wrangler
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Why would I hire a Virtual Assistant?
People still don’t understand what a Virtual Assistant actually does, and truthfully, it’s difficult to state in one sentence as each Virtual Assistant offers his or her skill set of services.Let’s delve into some more detail to help decide why hiring one may be beneficial to your time and earning power. Depending on who I…
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Looking for Extra Work? Some ideas…
Where to find work in uncertain times? For a lot of us side gigs are now our main income. Where do you find extra work, even if it’s just a few hours a week? If you happen to be familiar with micro gigs, you’ve likely heard from places like Fiverr, Amazon Micro Turk, Appen, and…
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Motivation: The Struggle Is Real!
Lack of motivation seems to be rampant right now, and I have to tell you, I wrestle it daily. Numerous people have mentioned to me they have all the time in the world right now due to the pandemic and social isolation, but they are getting very little done. We are going to bed later…
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Pulling Ideas Out of Your Hat
A big part of not knowing what to write about has to do with not being clear about who your audience is, and not having a clear idea of what direction you would like your blog to go in. For instance, a blog post about nutrition may have a similar audience as one about exercise…
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Tasks you now have time for…
You know how great it is to be organized! Why not do it NOW since you have the time? Some ideas: Clean out your 30,000 emails and create folders. (Be honest!) Clean your phone (once a day suggested: Android, and Apple), laptop, iPads, remote controls, etc. Clean out old and unused apps – and update…
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2020: The World is my Oyster…
…but what, then, is the pearl? It always seems people have great New Years resolutions, are upbeat about change, cannot wait to get started…right? What happens when the change is not so exciting, or invited, or dreadful even? You could run and hide. You could get all Northern European, dur even, and put on your…
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What is a Virtual Assistant?
So many times over the last few years people have asked me what a Virtual Assistant is/means/does…and there is not one answer. It is similar to saying you are a writer, or a teacher: “Really, what do you teach?” or “What kind of writer?”. So it goes with ‘Virtual Assisting’ ~ could be anything you…
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Scheduling Blog posts and Social Media
As you know I am in the Northern California Foothills while a storm is rolling in…and realize there is a real posssibility of power outages. Which leads to panic: what about my daily blogposts? So I started researching Hootsuite and other apps, read up on the possibilities of scheduling in WordPress itself. It occurred…
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The pros and cons of being able to work from anywhere
Well, this 30 day blogging challenge is definitely a challenge for me! First of all, I’ve taken on the bad habit of posting in the evening, on the fly…doesn’t leave much time when things go awry, does it? And those of you that have been reading my posts know this happens almost daily. So tomorrow,…