You read about virtual assistants here on outsourcing-options and hear it when people talk about outsourcing. As you know you can outsource or get virtual assistants to a wide variety of tasks. Including but not limited to personal tasks like managing your email, talk to your parents and make the reservation at your favored restaurant, or business tasks like doing bookkeeping, promote your business and manage all your online web-presents. What thinks need to be avoided?

Don't you agree, one question is unanswered. Is it right for you? Is a virtual assistant right for you?  read more »

Thinking only celebrities have someone to do the little tasks they feel not having time for? In the 19th century it was the secretary or butler, in the last century it was the personal assistant and now in the 21st century it is the virtual assistant. Thanks to the internet and globalization such service is getting more and more attractive and not only for business owners and the rich, but for people like you and me.  read more »

In my last post 9 Work Demons Are Time Bandits I mention what they are and invited you to add your own, if you haven't done so, please do so here. Now it is time to fight these 9 demons!  read more »

There comes a time when you find yourself less productive. You get a sense that you are not doing all you can. This is especially true when you work from home. At the office it happens too, but for other reasons and not so often. Your boss makes sure about that. But working from home it comes gradually, sneaking, without warning - your work demons.  read more »

If you have been to seminars about internet marketing, online business or make money online related things, the chances are that you heard about outsource your business. Lots of speakers, experts and gurus alike love to tell you that it is important if not essential to outsource. Why do they say that?!

There is a need for outsourcing and it is important. Actually it is  read more »

It allows you to quickly survey the rankings for a keyword query across Google, Yahoo and MSN. It is a killer for competitive research!!

Enter your search terms and you'll see the top 20 results from Google (green), Yahoo (red), and MSN/Live (blue) rendered as color dots, with lines connecting the dots where the same page is present in two engines results. It's a kind of like in the image on the right - hard to explain, but easy to see once you install it.

Here's the really SWEET part - Ranker is built into our new StomperTools Firefox Plugin!  read more »

As a new member of the online business alliance, a group of millions looking to make money online I would like to introduce you to a friend that you will meet along your journey, in fact if you never bump into this friend chances are you are not doing enough to build your online business. This friend is called “overwhelm” and you will most likely meet this friend within a few months of looking at domains, niches, hosting, autoresponders, programmers, websites, blogs, membership  read more »