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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs College Baseball Season 2009 Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 2:00 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Baseball No, I’m not a sports writer, just a big fan. Division I College baseball starts today, February 19, 2009, which happens to be my birthday. I love February.

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JUNE 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Regional Virtual Assistant Retreat? Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 10:40 am // By: // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Entrepreneurs who work from home often report a sense of isolation, caused by, well, working in isolation much of the time.

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JUNE 15, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Do you resumé or not? Monday, June 15, 2009 at 9:45 am // By: // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives Independent contractors typically let their credentials, satisfied clients, brochures and web sites speak for them.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos – Part 2 (signing day) Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 8:46 pm // By: // Category: Baseball Just back from meeting with Angels scout, John Gracio. Contract and rookie league explained. He heads to Tempe in the morning for physical and workout.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Whoops! Friday, October 9, 2009 at 5:08 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Life of the Virtual Assistant There are many scenarios that can derail your well-oiled SOHO operation. These’ll getcha, just like a change up in baseball.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Your blog’s role in your professional visibility Monday, October 12, 2009 at 11:11 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Ever wonder where blogging is headed now that social media web sites have become mainstream tools?

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Are Social Media sites today’s biggest time suck? Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 9:25 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Web/Tech Social Media sites have been heralded as the latest and best way to network and establish your brand.

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MARCH 5, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Loosely Speaking’s New Web Development eGuide Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 5:29 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging , Web/Tech If you’re still on the fence about blogging or what to do with your dusty old web site that’s sorely in need of a face lift, snap up my (..)

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JUNE 17, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos, part 1 Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 3:44 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Baseball , Cleanup Knitter A week ago today, our youngest was drafted by the Los Angeles Angels.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Spring Cleaning Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 1:07 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Cleanup Knitter , Life of the Virtual Assistant After referring to self as “Cleanup Knitter&# in my last post, it felt as though I should work a little harder to earn that title.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Living in a Style Vacuum Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 4:52 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant I’ve been working from home as a Virtual Assistant for more than 13 years now.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Professional Development Opportunity for VA Entrepreneurs Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 4:26 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources Here’s a short except from my conversation on web development and SEO with Jeannine Clontz , owner of Accurate Business Services (..)

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APRIL 28, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Have you got game? Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 3:52 pm // By: // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives Swagger. If you’re an athlete, you’re expected to have that and more.

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JUNE 19, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs 11 Halos – Part 3 (reporting & fans) Friday, June 19, 2009 at 4:19 pm // By: // Category: Baseball Today, he drove to Tempe, to the Angels Tempe Diablo Stadium to report. Received equipment, signed up for his new insurance program (yeah!),

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Managing the growth of your VA practice Friday, December 4, 2009 at 10:45 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Virtual Assistant Resources Virtual Assistants in practice for a number of years usually reach a crossroads when their client load begins to challenge (..)

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APRIL 12, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Where in the World is Sharon Williams? You can follow Sharon as she travels the Web answering challenging questions about the VA industry. Monday, April 12, 2010 at 11:58 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Or, how can I play and win?!

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OCTOBER 25, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Off the needles! Baby hat and bell bottoms. Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 10:47 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Every girl needs a pair of bell-bottomed yoga pants. Here is a little outfit for Avery Elizabeth Pogue, newborn daughter of Eric and Sierra.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Dyeing for something new Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 10:43 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Cleanup Knitter , Knitting Hand dyed yarn: "Poached Rhubarb" Spring was the air, I was cleaning out the old yarn stash in preparation for a friend’s upcoming “Destashing (..)

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AUGUST 30, 2012

What are the rules for accountable plans, and how do they apply to employee expense and travel reimbursements? This popular Special Report shows you where to draw the line with travel and entertainment deductions, and how to substantiate each expense. Should you run expense reimbursements through payroll or accounts payable?

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs I am such an SOB! Monday, October 27, 2008 at 9:03 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Successful and Outstanding Blogger, that is! Liz Strauss , the original SOB is hosting her blog’s 3rd birthday party tomorrow, October 28, 2008.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Round up #3, Prescott Style Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 7:48 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Election Day 2008! This one feels like Christmas. I voted early by mail this year.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs The Way to Start a Year Thursday, January 1, 2009 at 10:50 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant Ever read The Way to Start a Day by Byrd Baylor ? It’s one of my favorite read-alouds from back in my earlier career as a middle school teacher.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Pretty Twitter Badges by Limeshot Design Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 3:13 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Craving a new look for your Twitter badges? I was on the fence about this until I saw some nice options on another site today. Try Limeshot.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs My 2010 Theme: “Fit&# Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 12:58 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant No resolutions for me this year. Nope, I’m keeping it simple by choosing a theme, which is the word “fit.&#

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MARCH 30, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Time for another NAVA meetup Monday, March 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources Do you meet up with your colleagues regularly? In times like these, it feels good to share ideas and extend a helping hand.

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MARCH 30, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Time for another NAVA meetup Monday, March 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources Do you meet up with your colleagues regularly? In times like these, it feels good to share ideas and extend a helping hand.

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MAY 13, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs International Virtual Assistant Day 2009 Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 11:39 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Life of the Virtual Assistant While you may already have seen, heard, read or otherwise somehow found out that the Online International Virtual Assistant Convention (OIVAC) scheduled (..)

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OCTOBER 16, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Best of … Blog Action Day 2008 Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 3:50 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Whether on- or off-topic for your blog, there are times when participation in a group blog project just feels right. Blog Action Day is one of those for me.

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MARCH 26, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Spring means new acquaintances and new projects Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 11:10 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Between WordPress projects for clients and getting my new e-book on web development finished, I’ve enjoyed meeting with some new-to-me people who are launching (..)

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APRIL 18, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs AZVAs Podcast 3: Prepping to Attend Industry Events Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 2:34 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: AZVAs Podcast Your quick link to the April 2010 AZVAs Podcast is at the bottom of this post.

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DECEMBER 13, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs All I need is $4.59 Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 10:37 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Family Life , Life of the Virtual Assistant I won’t tell you how long it’s been since I became a Google Adsense Publisher. But I WILL tell you I have only $4.59

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JANUARY 7, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Roundup #4, Prescott Style: WordPress Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 11:13 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging A look at some good posts related to my favorite blogging platform, WordPress.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs SEO Teleseminar Wednesday March 18 Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 12:45 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Virtual Assistant Resources Here’s a great opportunity to listen in on a conversation on web development and SEO between myself and colleague (..)

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JUNE 18, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs More VA Training Options Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 5:44 pm // By: // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources Nina Feldman , Nina Feldman Connections , and I have talked often in recent months about the need to identify quality training options for Virtual Assistants at various points (..)

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MARCH 10, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs AZVAs Podcast Episode 2: March 2010 Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:28 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: AZVAs Podcast Here’ s your quick link to the March 2010 AZVAs Podcast: [Listen Now!]

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs When a client’s site cries out for help Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:39 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Web/Tech Like many small developers, I built a number of websites between 1998 and 2002 using the then standard approach of hand-coded HTML and, later, a web editing program.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Give a care? Give a share! Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:39 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Prescott Arizona I used to love (and be good at) gardening.

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