Author Archives: Rambo Ruiz

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We all know how Pinterest took the social media scene by surprise when it went viral. Pinterest has this neat look… no wonder why most of its users are women ;) . Just like a cork board “pinning” your favorite stuff or notes together is a sure way to be more organize. So if you are or want-to-be an organized social media/web surfer then you better create an account now on Pinterest. And as for you who want to have a blog or website that has the Pinterest look then I strongly suggest you check Read more [...]

Your 2013 SEO Strategy to Work On

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Strategies to Implement for Your 2013 SEO By Yasir Khan With a number of websites violating the terms and conditions of Google, it has also been consistently changing its algorithm to maintain its reputation and usefulness as a trusted search engines. The two recently released updates are the Panda (2011) and Penguin (2012). The Panda update targeted websites that are creating low-quality content and the 2012 Google’s Penguin aimed at removing sites that spammed and offensive link building Read more [...]

Why Hire Virtual Assistant from the Philippines

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Hiring a Virtual Assistant to help online businesses grow is the trend that is going on these days. Thanks to Tim Ferris’s book titled The Four Hour Work Week. Hiring a VA basically helps a business man leverage and save his time. Time that can be spend with other important matters like finding more clients, strengthening business relationship or taking a vacations with family. Finding a VA is not hard, just do a Google search and dozens of VA services and portfolios will appear right in front Read more [...]

How to Create A Child Theme in WordPress

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One of the many reasons why I recommend WordPress is that there are lots of themes available online. WordPress themes are incredible, they can help you save a lot of time and effort as far as designing is concern. And I must admit most of the time you don’t need to edit them for they all look good and are SEO friendly as well. However, there are times that you have to go to the back-end of your WordPress theme and do some editing on its functions and appearance to fit your need. And when you Read more [...]

What happens if your VA do it wrong?

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In a perfect world, projects would always be completed exactly the way we want. (Actually, in a perfect world, we wouldn’t have any projects at all… we’d all be sipping fruit-shakes on a beach somewhere). Okay, so in a NEAR-perfect world, projects would always be completed exactly the way we want. But we don’t live in a perfect world or even a near perfect world. We live in a world where stuff happens: Mistakes, miscommunication, project derailment, etc. For any number of reasons, a project can Read more [...]

Tools to Use for Project Management

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Delegating isn’t easy. There is a lot to juggle in business anyway and delegating can seem like one more thing. There are tools that can help you to delegate more successfully. We’ll look at some of them here. However, be aware that tools change all the time. These are tools that we (or people we know) have found helpful in the past but these tools might change or better tools might come along. Project Management Tools These tools have proven helpful when we wanted to monitor a lot of projects Read more [...]

The MUST HAVES of a Successful Delegation – Part 3

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In the past few posts, we’ve been talking about the various elements that all delegation should possess in order to make for a successful project. Providing a vision of the business so the Virtual Assistant knows how their small project fits into the big picture was the first MUST HAVE. Providing clear instructions was the second MUST HAVE. Providing success factors (measurable if possible) was the third MUST HAVE. There’s a fourth element that all successful delegation should have. Feedback In Read more [...]

The MUST HAVES of a Successful Delegation – Part 2

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In the previous article we’ve been talking about elements that all delegation instructions should possess in order to create the conditions that will result in more successful projects. Sharing the vision of the project was the first element. Providing clear instructions was the second element. In this post, we’ll look at a third element that your delegation instructions should possess. Clear Instruction Let’s compare two sets of instructions to show you what I mean: Instruction A: “I’d like Read more [...]

The MUST HAVES of a Successful Delegation – Part 1

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In the last post, I discussed how successful delegation to your Virtual Assistant should start with sharing the vision of the business and the project. When this happens, projects will turn out more successful. But those are not the only ways that a project’s success can be enhanced. In this post, we’ll cover another element that all delegation instructions should have. Clarity Successful project instructions should be clear. We all communicate in different ways and we know well from real life Read more [...]

The Start of Successful Delegation

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The most successful projects always start out on the right foot. The project begins in the right way and is completed exactly as planned. You, the outsourcer, is pleased with the results and your Virtual Assistant is proud of a job well done. But, the question is, how can you get that to happen more often when you delegate projects or tasks? What is the exact first best step to take? How to get there Imagine that you are in a race with someone else. You will each be racing different routes but Read more [...]