I’ve never really used a job aggregator before because even though I may have accounts in other job sites, I am only active in oDesk. But for those who’d like to keep track of postings and openings in multiple job boards, using job aggregators such as DoNanza can be a lot of help. They reduce, [...]

As a virtual assistant, I often find myself swamped with a lot of tasks, and it’s so easy to get lost in them. While I can always to turn to the trusty MS Excel to help keep me organized, I find that an application that allows me to quickly scan the list of my tasks [...]

Blog commenting is one of the earliest ways to get backlinks to your site (or if you’re a link builder, to your client’s site).  Although many seasoned internet marketers and SEO personnel no longer see this activity as an effective link building technique because aside from the implementation of the nofollow tag, which allows blog [...]

One of the hurdles of working online is file sharing. Of course, if your task involves only one to a couple of files a day, any good email can handle that. But if the job entails 20 or more files, you should consider another solution. I was introduced to Dropbox by a client who hired [...]

It’s like Todoist but better. At least they hope it would be. For those who love the simplicity of Todoist but clamor for a task sharing feature, which would make it more of a project management tool, Wedoist might be your dream come true. Wedoist was launched last June to address the need for more [...]

This being a Monday and because I was able to complete my first short-term goal for this blog (I didn’t tell you, but it was to write a post everyday, Monday-Friday, for two weeks), I feel like being more personal. I’d like to share with you my Desk. Well, not literally my desk, but a [...]

A lot of professional bloggers and internet marketers prefer WordPress as their publishing platform. It was primarily intended as a blogging tool but because of it’s flexibility and ‘customizability’, even companies are using WordPress to create and establish their business presence online. And this is precisely the reason why you, as a virtual assistant, should [...]