This year is rapidly coming to a close and it’s that time when many of us business owners decide to spend some time reflecting on the year past and planning for the future. This year was my first year in business as a virtual legal assistant and it was a great year in my opinion! I started out last January with a 6 week old baby plus two older boys and the knowledge that things really had to change. I had already been researching virtual...
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Just a quick note to share that Halo Secretarial’s feed can now be found at Alltop in the virtual assistant category! I think that’s pretty exciting news on a Wednesday afternoon! Oh and as you can see, we are still undergoing “renovations” of the blog and site, it should be complete sometime next week! Halo Secretarial Services Contact us for more information on virtual legal...
Read MoreI received another contact via Twitter today that could have turned into an opportunity. I love Twitter – it’s really helped me get clients and raise my profile! This client won’t be signing with me though (at least not for now!), because the lawyer who contacted me needs a virtual assistant who can help with QuickBooks. I am not yet very experienced in QB. I use it for my business, but definitely need some training in it to...
Read MoreIt’s not even surprising anymore for me to find interesting articles about lawyers and their use of Twitter. After the great (and still growing!) list over at JDScoop I personally gained several followers from the legal field and found several new people I wanted to follow as well. Ever since there has been an increasing number of fabulous articles about how Twitter can benefit legal practices. Thanks to a couple of tweets (hat tips to...
Read MoreI just read that it has been decided that BlogHer 2009 will be held in late July in Chicago – now just to figure out if I can go or not! They are combining the BlogHer Business Conference with the BlogHer Annual Conference, which is a great idea! I think attending the conference will be a great way to network for my virtual assistant business, as well as to meet some fellow mom bloggers. Oooh, gonna have to do some searching now to see...
Read MoreAre blogs really last year, last decade, pointless? That was the message I got when I read a recent article in Wired magazine entitled Kill Your Blog. Paul Boutin seems to have been reaching a bit too far in the article though, at least in my opinion. And I’m a huge Twitter fan, which is one of the platforms Boutin advocated as a replacement for blogging. I had picked up Wired last week while on a grocery run and the article really...
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