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Head and Heart in the Cloud yet?

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Do you work in the cloud?  Well, if you have handled any ‘work’  by email for the past few years, you were sort of working in the Cloud of the Internet…not having your work feet on solid ground.

Tools at various places, but most particularly available at Google docs permits someone to build content documents,  spread sheets, slide presentations and site/wiki projects online.  There are Google Docs templates for time sheets, invoices, resumes, party invitations and more The tools are user friendly if you dig around to learn how things are done differently than the office software you have used to put your production on autopilot.  The Cloud offers some good collaboration aspects that are more clunky using email to send files around for review and change.

Google docs is available to anyone with a Gmail account.  Setting up Google Apps takes a little more effort, but it is not impossible.

On @Bar JD Virtual Professionals and at Particularly Virtual,  I wrote more about working in the Cloud.  I learned about the first Cloud tools through other virtual assistants’ sharing of information at VAnetworking.com.  I’ve developed my philosophy about the tools and made my decisions regarding their use.

Do yourself a favor and check out the tools and opportunities to create and even publish at Google and other places in the Cloud.

Check out the Virtual Assistance eBooks at VAnetworking.com

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JudyAnn Lorenz of Bar JD Communications wrote a post in @Bar JD Communications today, VAnetworking.com has eBooks for Virtual Assistants that expands on the availability of a valuable series of eBooks from VAnetworking.com.

The series has some free eBooks and others which are very reasonably priced.  There are some that specifically address the needs of clients in choosing a virtual assistant or writing an RFP to virtual assistants.   Others help virtual assistants in beginning business decisions and planning.

This set of eBooks is a very good investment for clients who are just beginning to think about hiring a virtual assistant.  Or, sadly, if a business has had a poor experience with a VA, the eBooks contain information that might have offered options to avoid a poor experience.   Information that would have value in future relationships with a VA.

There is unquestionable value to people who are investigating the field of virtual assistance as a possible career move.

Virtual Assistants use Focus & Pace for Better Business

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A post at Virtually @ Bar JD Virtual Professionals, entitled Focus and Pace can be Common Virtues for Virtual Assistants is about the benefits of focusing, self discipline and “PACING” your self and your virtual assistant business contains advice about the benefits of a paced working policy. The post was written in response and support of a post made by Ruth Martin of Maplewood Virtual Assistance entitled Got the Right Focus? made at Partnering with a Virtual Assistant the official blog for Vanetworking.com.

If you are sitting on internet and computer skills while looking for a place to land profitably, consider marketing these skills and working virtually!

Both posts discuss the benefits of focusing on Your Self to the benefit of the clients, the business, the family and YOUR SELF!

Time is MONEY for a Business & a Virtual Assistant

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 At Virtually @ Eight Twenty-Two, blog for Bar JD Communications you can read discussion about a Cost Comparison between an full time employee and a virtual assistant which is presented by VAnetworking.com.

When businesses are looking at their budget, yet needing tasks to be accomplished, the decisions can be   frustrating to consider. 

 The budget doesn’t contain the volume for a professional in house employee. That is a FACT.  Yet, if this work isn’t accomplished, the business will be in even deeper budget trouble.  That is the TRUTH.

 

A virtual professional who is a member of VAnetworking.com at all levels, including Vainsiders, brings a network to the business that would not be available under typical circumstances.  In a matter of seconds, there is always a sample of the more than 10,000 members available to answer questions, share information and skills or subcontract to make sure the business has a tip-top end result.

 

Read the entire post at Often a Matter of Time = Virtual Assistant Appeal

Virtual Assistant Network for You Where You Are!

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According a post at Virtually @ Eight Twenty-Two, blog for Bar JD Communications, recently, Ana Maria Pineyra of El Teleasistente Web was awarded the Vaccolade acknowledgement from her peers at VAnetworking.com.  Ana provides services in Venezuela.

This blog is read largely by people in the USA and in the Ozarks Mountains. I just want to encourage readers with thisVAnetworking.com is truly an international network with members on every continent.  Readers can consider the potential for the virtual assistance field and the potential for learning from people all over the planet.  I value my connections with peole on other continents and other regions.

The technology is very much the same for virtual assistants no matter where the base location.

The issues can be the same or extremely different depending upon the local resources. Frequently, personal issues are shared over land and sea with support coming from the network along with potential solutions. For anyone considering working from their own entrepreneurial office using technical and business skills as a base for services, a network is essential in today’s market.

One of the most beautiful things about VAnetworking.com is the entry price. There is enough information available at no charge to give a good view of the potential and fit of virtual assistance as a future move.

No matter where you are located, if you are skilled and looking, you can benefit from becoming a part of a network over 10,000 strong