http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog My contributions to business owners, especially the solo operators. Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:26:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Power of Asking; 7 Ways to Boost Your Business by Jack Canfield The gift called “asking” has been around for a long, long time. One ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/155/the-power-of-asking-7-ways-to-boost-your-business/ Courtesy Tech Republic Free Whitepaper: How Phishing can Impact your Business With the festive season upon us, the last thing you want is for online fraud and phishing to turn a generous shopping spree sour. Download this complimentary whitepaper and learn about: The latest Phishing Schemes, how Phishing can impact your business, ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/151/free-whitepaper-how-phishing-can-impact-your-business/ Samantha Milner has published a blueprint that everyone who's serious about using Twitter should read. Click on the picture for more details And it's based on the system that Samantha uses to generate a 60,000+ targeted following on Twitter and how you could do the same for little over an hour a ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/141/24-hour-twitter-expert/ While many business-owners have difficulty delegating work, at a certain point it becomes necessary to move the business forward. Hiring an assistant can help you run things more efficiently, letting you focus on the big picture as your assistant takes care of administrative tasks. Some companies hire admins to work ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/135/135/ In the words of Monty Python - now for something entirely different. This snippet is taken from  a newspaper column written by David J. Pollay journalist and writer back in 2007. "One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the left lane when ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/120/a-word-to-the-wise/ Conventionally, spammers obtain e-mail addresses from public sources such as newsgroups; forums, or the “TO:” and “CC:” lines of e-mail messages with an extensive circulation. It has been known for some unscrupulous Internet service providers to rent out their customer list to earn extra income, but it probably doesn’t happens much ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/109/how-do-spammers-get-e-mail-addresses/ I thought that multi-tasking was specific to the female of our species - apparently not. So I could not resist this article to restart my blogging. This great article by Mary McDonald, CEO/CTO of the McDonald Consulting Group http://www.mcdcg.com/10.html , an occasional client of mine, explains why multi-tasking can be detrimental to ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/105/multi-tasking/ Picking up, at long last, from the theme in an earlier post here is another tip regarding email. If you want to send an email while surfing the web, there is no need to open your email program. Just type in mailto:, without the quotes and don't forget the colon, in the ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/102/fast-addressing/ I can't believe so much time has passed simcve I last posted to this blog - and even Christmas has come and gone. A break in the thread. I don't know the origin of this, but feel it very applicable to the current world economic situation. So, with grateful thanks to the author ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/98/a-parable-for-todays-world/   Email has become a necessary evil. Let those messages accumulate a little before interrupting what you are doing to respond Even if your business structure requires prompt response to email messages try only responding once every half-hour or even hourly. Doing it this way will decrease the number of interruptions to ... http://virtualservices.com.au/CVS_blog/93/allow-your-email-messages-to-accumulate/