We Are Hiring!

We are looking for Virtual Assistants or other virtual service providers who are proficient in ClickBank and PayDotCom.com.

If you have worked in one or both of these systems and are confident that your skill sets are proficient to expert, please email me at info @ virtualassistantindustry.com, subject line “Click Bank”.

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Your Partner In Success Radio Show Welcomes Libby Gill

Your Partner In Success Radio Show

This week I am delighted to welcome to the show Executive Coach, Brand Strategist and Bestselling Author, Libby Gill.

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Free Press Release Generator

Weekly Recommended Resource

Lisa Manyon of Write On Creative created a free press release tool called Write On Creative Press Release Producer that I use and recommend. This wonderful tool requires just two easy steps: (more…)

Formatting Issues in WordPress

Question

I have a client who put up his own WordPress site.  It’s nice and functional – the problem is he copied and pasted all his content into WP pages from another site we built about 2 years ago where we had put everything in from Dreamweaver or Word (and that worked – it was a Sitesell site).  So the formatting is askew in some cases since he’s not allowing the css built into his template to do its job.  His other site did well with some tables we had set up – WP not so much.  Most of the pages are ok because they are static. 

There are a few pages that we change monthly based on his upcoming teleseminars.  Every time I update those pages, the formatting goes bonkers again – bolds show up where they shouldn’t, font sizes change and things that were left justified are centered, etc.  Every time it’s something different and the page keep morphing like a bad Sci Fi movie.   I’m thinking it’s because everything originally came from another site and wasn’t entered into the page allowing for css to do its thing.  Is that the case, oh WordPress Wizard?  

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This is What Superb Customer Service Looks Like!

Great customer service lets your customers and clients know that you value them and you want them to be happy enough with your customer service to refer you to their circle of friends, family and customers. In short, great customer service is about reaching out and forming a relationship. How do you go about forming such a relationship? By remembering the one true secret of good customer service and acting accordingly; “You will be judged by what you do, not what you say.”

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My Website Does Not Bring In Virtual Assistance Clients

Question:

Denise, I have looked at all of your websites and understand that you are a professional web developer as well as a virtual assistant. Very impressive!

My question to you is this. My website is not professionally built but I did what I could with the limited resources that I had at the time. It is an HTML site. Do you recommend that I move to WordPress.com?

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Outsourcing Virtual Assistance Work Overseas

Question

Hi Denise.

What do you tell people when they say they can hire virtual assistants overseas and pay them $3.00 an hour? What are the pros and cons of that? Have you posted any blogs on the subject? Do you have any good articles I can read so as to know how to respond to people when they say this?

I also have had people tell me that they have tried to use virtual assistants in other countries and that they experienced problems in communication because they didn’t speak good English and they also received documents that were full of language, punctuation and formatting errors. I believe you get what you pay for and I don’t know how anyone can expect to receive quality for $3.00 an hour.

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Those Ubiquitous Yellow Stickies

Stickies. Those ubiquitous rectangular yellow pieces of paper that we all use to keep track of what is going on with our lives and our businesses. The eternal “to do” reminder.

We all use them either physically or in my case, on my various desktops. Truly, I would be lost without them!

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Weekly Recommended Resource

I get so many requests for tips and advice on the resources that my Virtual Assistance and Web Development companies use that it seems a great idea to publish a weekly resource.

These are online resources that will help you develop, gain knowledge, find new information and absorb new ideas.

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My Website is Not Getting Any Traffic

Question 

Denise, I paid a relative to build my WordPress blog but it is not getting any traffic at all.  Would you be able (or willing) to look at it and make some recommendations?

Thank you, Ranisha 

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