Posts belonging to Category networking

Facebook – Keeping it Private

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 [...]

Facebook – Marketing Partner or Monster?

We have had some local press coverage here of late – which kind of went viral and national quickly – about a couple of local high school teachers who learned the hard way that Facebook profiles are not the best places to put your ‘better-kept-private” pics. It has led to some pretty heated discussions around [...]

Never Stop Marketing!

I haven’t really noticed any change to my practice since the beginning of the economic downturn but I have heard a number of small business owners and Virtual Assistants of late saying that work is dropping off and/or they’ve ‘lost’ clients, blaming in part the economic downturn. This is a good reminder for us all [...]

Business Peaks & Troughs

With the economic downturn I’ve noticed of late more and more discussion on various networks about worry about work dropping off, finding part time jobs and so on. I think it’s important to remember this: as virtual assistants we are in business. We are business owners. This means we are responsible for our work/cash flow [...]

‘Virtual’ Networking a waste of time?

I’ve read comments on various listservs of late and note an underlying thread: the fact that people still use the phrase “wasting time” when they refer to their efforts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on. Remember this: it is never a waste of your time to pursue these Web 2.0 marketing initiatives. Virtual Assistants [...]