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Monthly Archives: February 2008

The Morning Show: Get Friday

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Join me on The Morning Show. It can be brilliant, it can be lame. What do you expect from a show in the morning? Talk about politics, life, news, or whatever. On today’s show, let’s talk about virtual assistants.
The show runs from 8:30 am to 9 am. You can [...]

The Morning Show: Political Thursday

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Join Shaine Mata on The Morning Show. It can be brilliant, it can be lame. What do you expect from a show in the morning? Talk about politics, life, news, or whatever. Today, let’s talk politics. The Texas primary is coming up. Who do you think will come [...]

The Morning Show: World Wide Wednesday

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Join Shaine Mata on The Morning Show. It can be brilliant, it can be lame. What do you expect from a show in the morning? Talk about politics, life, news, or whatever. Today: How can social media help your business?

Computer Tech Squeeze Play

If you are providing retail computer services to the general public, you need to keep a couple of things in mind, the price floor and the price ceiling. By price floor, I mean that you have to keep in mind that you have to make money. You can’t give away your services. You have to [...]

Upping the Ante

I have decided to raise my commitment to my virtual assistant from 10 hours per month to 20 hours per month. Through GetFriday.com, that means $200 out of pocket each month. I believe that I may be able to drive up enough business to cover the added cost. My original purpose for hiring [...]

Shop Amazon With Jott

I’ve been meaning to try this feature, but never got around to it until today. You can shop Amazon using Jott. You won’t get results immediately; you still have to wait for your voice message to be transcribed and processed. The benefit to this type of shopping, just like leaving yourself reminders, is that you [...]

You Should Get to Know Your Virtual Assistant

You can miss out on making the best use of your virtual assistant if you don’t take the time to get to know him or her. Just like in college, it is probably best to ask your VA what their major was in college. This gives you an idea of their mindset and where they [...]

Some Feedback About Virtual Assistants

A while back, I wrote about my decision to take on a Virtual Assistant for a fixed monthly fee. Previously, I was paying a $10 retainer fee to GetFriday.com to have a VA available for the occasional odd job. Now, I’ve raised my subscription to $120/month for 10 hours of service. I’ll have to figure [...]

Setting Up the System for my Virtual Assistant

When you hire somebody, they don’t know everything about your business. I’ve had to train new employees in the past. I’ve shown them almost every aspect of the business that they will deal with from day to day. Heck, I even showed them how to do their own payroll. So, whenever you hire somebody, you [...]

Home Computer Upgrades

There comes a time in every computer’s life when it seems to struggle with some of the tasks that were once a breeze. We all know that it’s the constant creep of software updates that makes your once kick-ass computer into a lame-ass computer. Computer guys like me are not immune to this. I have [...]