2012 Social Media Plan–Slash!

November 25, 2011

I spent this afternoon meticulously going through my Twitter account. I have followed over 3,900 in the past two years. I have come to realize that there is no possible way I can meaningfully communicate with that many people. Most of them I do not know and never actually “spoken” with. I did not use [...]

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Virtual Assistant Business Insurance

November 4, 2011

I have been on a quest to find business insurance for Olinda Services. As a virtual assistant I have found that my business has specialized needs and my quest has proved arduous. My first stop was to check with local small business owners for a referral. I received several and was told no by several [...]

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I Work 24/7 and I Am Proud Of It!

September 17, 2011

Do you work 24/7? With owning my own business, my client load, my responsibilities as a wife and mother I could work 24/7! I usually handle the pressure okay but eventually it gets to me.  Here are some symptoms of 24/7 overload… You are grumpy with those closest to you. You snap at the least [...]

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iPhone Stops Syncing with Exchange 2010 Account

September 13, 2011

Recently my trusty companion became slack and stopped doing its job properly. I tried to shame it into submission but unfortunately my iPhone just would not connect to my mail server. All of my feeble attempts failed miserably. I finally broke down and contacted customer support with my Exchange 2010 account. I chatted online with [...]

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Can Social Media Build My Brand?

August 15, 2011

I was recently asked to do a social media marketing plan presentation for an organization. SurveyTelligence is a diagnostic tool powered by Infotool. They have a great product and are trying to build their brand in intelligent survey design. I received my certification in using the tool back in May of 2011. The survey tool [...]

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Word 2010 Safe Mode

June 22, 2011

I have spent the past four hours trying to use my Word 2010 program. I opened a document from a client that had some glitch in it. It kept wanting to change my normal template and shut down Word. Every time it shut down it saved another copy of the file as a recovered document. [...]

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What is the Perfect Computer?

June 11, 2011

I have been looking for the past several months into purchasing a new desktop computer. I have pretty specific requirements but each computer I look at falls short in one area or another. Basic Requirements Window 7 Professional i5 or i7 Processor Card Reader 1.5 TB Hard Drive 8 – 12 GB Ram Graphics Card [...]

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Sync POP3 Email Across Multiple Computers

May 27, 2011

Lifehacker has a great article by Melanie Pinola; How to Sync Your Desktop Email Client (Outlook or Thunderbird) Across Multiple Computers. I personally feel that moving to a hosted Exchange account was one of the best decisions I made. If you do not have the option of using an Exchange account then this article will [...]

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Should I Personally Engage on Social Media

April 28, 2011

I recently read a blog article by Mari Smith and she referred to Gary Vaynerchuk’s opening keynote at Gulltaggen. Gary is always a dynamic speaker and I would certainly consider his brand personality-based. Mari shared some "Golden Nuggets" from the keynote. One of those nuggets really resonated with me. “For the first time EVER, businesses [...]

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Outlook 2010 Have you lost your subject line?

April 25, 2011

As a business services provider I manage several Exchange accounts within Outlook 2010. Recently one of the client accounts lost the subject line within the Navigation Pane. I was stumped as to why I could not see the information. After doing some research I found the solution. Click on View Click on Change View Settings [...]

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