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Should I Hire an Operations Assistant for My Pet Care Business?
Many times you don’t realize that you should hire an operations or administrative assistant until you are inundated in paperwork and keeping operations going while trying to juggle what you do best. You signed up for the pet care industry because you love animals and you want to be working out there in the field with them rather than stuck indoors with your keyboard far away from your furry clients. I have been there with you. I own and still operate a pet care business of my own. I know it is not easy for everyone to invite someone into the inner workings of their business. You built this from…
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Consistency is Key When Writing a Series
It is every author’s worst nightmare. Your most loyal reader is making their way through your latest masterpiece when suddenly they find a mistake. You have written two of the novels in your trilogy. However, then you wrote 2 other books before you wrote that last book to tie your series together. You can’t remember every detail and everything that was said from your other two books because it is all jumbled together with the things that occurred in the other two books that you wrote in between. Each book in your series usually focuses on the development of a different character and those characters are introduced as minor characters…
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Is a Virtual Paralegal the Solution?
You are likely reading this because you are a small or solo firm that has experienced being short on resources and feeling lost in the tide of work with a lack of the hours to complete it all. After 8 years working inside a firm and 3 years of working as a Virtual Paralegal, I have observed attorneys just like you in this situation. However, they cannot afford another employee to help them or to take some of the load off of their current assistant. Benefits of the Virtual Paralegal Solution Enter what I like to call the Virtual Paralegal Solution. This is a great option for small and solo…
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A Writer’s Guide to Hiring a Virtual Assistant
You are a writer who has been wearing all of the hats that make up the business side of the craft. Now your blog has really started to take off, your deadlines are coming faster or your books are selling faster than you can write them. Who has the time to wear all of those hats now? Are they distracting you from doing the actual writing? A Virtual Assistant can swoop in and help you with that. They can also do it at a fraction of the cost of an actual employee. You pay for only what you need and you are more productive than ever. How do you know…