It’s happened to me a few times now – I’ve had newsletters from various places turn up in my inbox and I think to myself “I don’t remember signing up for that”. Most of the time I put it down to my poor memory for these things and if I decide I don’t want to [...]
Categories: business, legislation
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Tags: Australia, business, business development, business marketing, E-mail address harvesting, Email address, Mailing list, Spam
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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
| Tags: business development, business marketing, facebook, networking, online networking, social media, social networking, virtual assistant
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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 [...]
Categories: business building, facebook, linkedin, networking, online networking, social networking
| Tags: business, business building, business development, business marketing, grow your business, networking, social media, social networking, virtual assistant
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It’s happening again! Apparently now some UK companies are letting the team down by plagiarising content, taking business names of established businesses and their URLs – or something very close thereto – and swiping content. Regular readers will recall my October post about an international company who had plagiarised an article I wrote in 2004 [...]
Categories: business, outsourcing, plagiarism, virtual assistant
| Tags: business marketing, business services, outsourcing, plagiarism, va, virtual assistant, web content
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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 [...]
Categories: business, business development, business start up, home based business, networking, online networking, social networking
| Tags: business, business building, business marketing, gec, global economic crisis, grow your business, marketing, networking, recession, social networking
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