Did you know 2012 has been recognised by the UN as the International Year of Cooperatives? And in Australia, 2012 is the Year of the Farmer. Ironic then I guess that 2011 saw the milk price wars perpetuated by Coles and Woolworths that saw $1/L prices highlighting the fact the retailers were using milk as [...]
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Pleased to announce that the eSOS site has just been certified as an Australian Certified Website! Whilst the organisation providing the certification is relatively new I felt that this was not as important as the spirit/intent of the service they were providing which, according to their Terms & Conditions, is: “… established to certify websites [...]
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ANNOUNCING AUSTRALIA’S VERY FIRST PODCAST/INTERNET RADIO TALK SHOW: THE VIRTUAL BUSINESS SHOW – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW That’s right! I have now started up our very own internet radio show which will cover topics of interest to VAs, virtual business owners, small businesses, those wanting to become VAs and those who want to work [...]
Categories: business building, business development, business start up, coaching, e-learning, online training, training, webinar
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We welcome the Blog Hopping VA, Sharon Williams, President of The 24 Hour Secretary and chair of the OIVAC steering committee, who is here answering your questions on the virtual assistant industry and OIVAC! Here are Sharon’s answers to the questions posed over the last couple of days. If you have further questions or would [...]
Categories: business building, business development, home based business, online networking, online training, outsourcing, remote secretary, va, virtual, virtual assistant
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Following on from my earlier post on Facebook, I had an interesting chat with a colleague who indicated he had removed his Facebook profile because of the people who he had ‘friended’… Not because they weren’t friends (in this instance it was someone he’d known for over 20 years) but because of the profile picture [...]
Categories: business building, business development, facebook, networking, online networking, social networking
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