Articles from August 2010
Posted by execva on August 23, 2010
I get lots and lots and LOTS of enquiries from ladies – and some men – wanting to become a VA and asking for advice on how to get started. I’m happy to help and point them in the direction of where they can get useful start-up information (including my podcast). I know other long-standing [...]
Categories: business start up
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Tags: Australia, business, business development, business services, business support, education, Podcast, Secretarial Services and Virtual Assistants, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on August 18, 2010
Since my last post on whether the ALP intends to move ahead with proposed changes to PSI criteria or not for independent contractors here’s an update. Unfortunately, still no news from the ALP’s Craig Emerson – and none from my local ALP member for Maranoa either – despite he was going to “look into it” [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: Australian Labor Party, election 2010, federal election, ICA, independent contractor, Julia Gillard, Labor Government, Labor Party, Liberal Party, LNP, personal services income, PSI criteria, Small Business, Tony Abbott
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Posted by execva on August 16, 2010
I’ve had a few clients ask me in recent times about voice recognition and whether it would be better (read: more cost effective) for them to use than digital transcription. One of the things I’ve said to them is that the tech currently has problems handling accents. I share this YouTube video – shared by [...]
Categories: transcription
| Tags: Medical transcription, Speech recognition, voice recognition
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Posted by execva on August 5, 2010
It’s not as sexy a headline as the Mining Tax but did you know about the Labor Government’s proposed changes to personal services income criteria? I attended the Small Business Summit in Brisbane in July 2010 when Tony Abbott alluded to proposed changes to be made by the Labor Government should it be returned at [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: Australian Labor Party, election 2010, federal election, ICA, independent contractors, Jullia Gillard, Labor Government, Labor Party, Liberal Party of Australia, mining tax, personal services income, PSI criteria, Small Business, Tony Abbott
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