Google Notebook

October 10th, 2008 No Comments

There are a lot of things students can do without actually writing and copy and pasting things in the web. One is to use the bookmarks of your Firefox browser or Internet Explorer browser. Second is to use your bookmarks with Yahoo or Google. If you want to save the text then you may use Google Notebook and save which part you want to save. No need for paper and pen. Use technology and the tools your browser offers you. Google has a lot to offer but you may not be familiar with it and use the traditional pen and paper instead of a taste of this technology. This takes a big part of your time especially when you are making research. Try using Google Notebook and be able to access your notes whenever you need it where ever you are. That is the edge you get when you use what the net offers you – any time access and paperless convenience!

Let the spider crawl to those who review your site including your blog site by participating at forums and by posting on blogs which are similar to your niche. For example if you are blogging about technology then post and participate on blogs and forums that talk about same issues. In the forums you need to edit your profile and signature at the control panel. You may put your URL or link to your blog at your signature. People reading your comment may be enticed to click on that and add up to your visitors statistics. Make sure that the blog URL reflected at your signature has the same theme or is significant to the theme of the forum you are posting. In the blog comments you can also put your links at the space provided for the URL. It would be wise not to put any links at the message text itself because there is an automatic spam segregator that will put your comment as spam and the author might not be able to see it.

Reviewback.com is a free blog review and exchange service that works to help you increase your links and your page ranks. You may avail of the service if you think this will benefit you the most for your marketing strategy. Note that it is important to generate links from sites that are not considered as spam so Google spiders will also crawl your blogs too. The main focus on this link generation is to make sure that your blog site has been linked to a site that is considered as non spam good site by Google. Doesn’t matter if you only link to a few good ones rather than link to plenty that will get your site off the spider’s routes.

Free movie

October 4th, 2008 No Comments

Vidics.com has a variety of movie clips offer for free. Watch the movie you like and click on the thumbnail image to start. The tabs at the top allows you to choose the type of movie category you like as such as comedy, drama, adventure, action, horror, classic, music and anime. Have fun watching their free movies in full with the option to either watch it online or download it. A html link to the movie is given at the bottom right after the player display. I have been to other sites and I like Vidics. Access is good and you can watch the movies directly online without downloading although it may take for awhile because of my internet speed connection. But what I like most with the site is that it is not sponsored or powered by any online media company and they don’t leave traces in your pc for the ability to redirect your search results to their advertisers. You will know this when you click a movie to watch and they will inform you about the online media company and their software feature. You may or may not continue if you don’t want it. Just click cancel and go to Vidics if you like to watch one without it. If you want to download movies at Vidics you have to subscribe to a paid membership of about $1.37 per month for 2 years and unlimited 24/7 downloads.

What are your deliverables? This is a matter of getting things done by doing the right thing! And this is a matter of changing from unmasked efficiency to effectiveness mindset. Align and collaborate with your admin. Aren’t you familiar with scratched my back and I’ll scratch yours? Your relationship with your admin is critical. Leverage that relationship.

Delegate and push things to admin. Coach, gather feedback and be effective! You get the best possible administrative assistant money can buy and delegate. It would be better to get in trouble with your admin task and not for anything else. Pay a little bit more. Admin might teach you a few things too. There are executives who want the best quality at the lowest price. You want high reliable workmanship try paying higher rates too. Admin helps out of loyalty and this is a huge value in your organization.

Maybe you will know by now how important admin is for the executive. You can even ask her to do a little time stretching when you are on field and needs assistance online. Things change when you will be traveling and it would be a delight to bring an admin on board. Admin definitely keeps bosses updated and their work areas clean.

Facial tics and facial twitches are brief, repetitive muscles spasms that are extremely diverse and are often symptomatic of nervous disorders. Facial tics usually occur during childhood and are exhibited by facial grimacing, blinking, mouth twitches and nose wrinkling. Throat or vocal tics are characterized by throat clearing, grunting or making unpleasant noises. This problem may appear and last for a few weeks but some may stay longer than expected. This could be life changing if it stays. Your child may lose self esteem knowing that he is making uncontrollable muscle jolts which we can normally say as “making faces” without control. This can be disheartening for adults too who are in the courtship stage. It would be quite a turn off for the girl to see her date making funny facial tics in whatever form in may be. It is just a great turn off!

Come off your research and your Google search and try to read this site I have stumbled. Facialtics.com is offering a life changing no medication approach to Eliminating Facial Tics. They guarantee the method to work within 72 hours. This is an all natural basic approach easy to follow guide book they are selling with the commitment to send your refund if it won’t work for you. The website texts are really simple but read through it and stay longer at the testimonials written in the bottom of the page. People have been writing them back and thanking them for the help. So maybe you would want to try ordering the guide book for Eliminating Facial Tics and confer with your doctor if it complements the kind of treatment your child is having at the moment.

Remember that facial tics and vocal tics tend to increase with stress. Help your child manage his stress level by reading on the guide book. Tips are given to effectively eliminate your child’s facial tics in 72 hours. Please be reminded that ignoring this symptom may put your child at risk for potential stroke. Seek the help of the medical professional when you notice that your child is making faces without their full control. Value your child’s emotions and help him not feel weird or different from his normal peers. It is not easy to get mocked upon or made fun by the group or even strangers.

The guide book I gather has been well researched. But there is no particular statement that says what it is. Of course we understand trade secret. Apparently you lose nothing if you buy because it is refundable. You gain more buy ordering and taking a little peep of the guide book and apply what is applicable to your situation. Facial tics are real discomfort and produces fear and anxiety of not being able to control it besides the possibility of permanent muscular deformation it presents. Be effective and quick with your treatment! Order the guide book and consult with your medical doctor how to best manage your child’s facial tics.


Me and my admin

October 1st, 2008 No Comments

Isn’t that good to hear? Looks like you and your admin have a very wonderful relationship. Want to be a very successful businessman then mind your relationship with your admin. Your business ally begins within the organization and not outside. Make your admin support you and you can go a long long way with your career goals. Stay on track and let your admin control your calendar. An effective admin always ask questions. The reason he ask questions is because he wants to know how to do his tasks correctly. It would be frustrating to do a task where your understanding is not complete. Your admin may be doing the best he can but is not effective because he does not know everything. Help him! He works for your success not his!

Do not let your admin guess or he will fail. And don’t expect too much when you haven’t done your coaching perfectly. Let your admin control your admin that simple. You need to delegate task properly and give him the proper authority to accomplish some things. Notice the changes when you do this. Feel less pressure and let him keep up the rhythm and the flow of your work. You never would want to be a one man band when you get those clients calling for your services and asking for their orders don’t you?

Reinvent admin

September 30th, 2008 No Comments

Build your political network through your admin. That is true. Know your competitors style and techniques by making close associations with their admin. Let your admin relationship work for you. Executives need to have a close working relationship with their admin. If you continue to keep your admin from getting involved in your business then you don’t stand much chance enjoying the fruits of your labor tomorrow in a clean bill of health. Don’t over drive yourself and don’t carry out a task that your admin can do and that you can do without. Create a guideline or a template for doing it right. Make more value with your admin and develop full potential. When you do cross over and obtain the full confidence of your admin then you can expect that the relationship will work more for the success of your business. Nobody would want to work for a boss who doesn’t care nor trust his admin right? Now ask yourself: where does your admin’s loyalty lie? You should know what it is that you are supposed to do in order to have a great relationship with your admin. Know how to be effective and ask yourself: what does this role requires of me?

Money… money… money… that’s how it has always been and that’s how it’s going to be in your future! This time prioritized your admin and you get more money with their help. Of course it is cheaper to outsource admin. Try the Philippines or India for a change. Capture what you believe and communicate your priorities. The executive or business man’s priorities and responsibilities determine everything. Let your admin filter the key issues you want to focus on and let them handle the less important emails. You need time to develop your network resources. Let your admin help you. Your charisma and your admin’s charisma are different and unique. You got your style and your admin got his style too. Tap it. Just tap it and go with the flow. This is rather good in building up your resources, allied, key friends and key relationships. If you haven’t let your admin manage your email or read your email then let him handle it now and focus on key issues and main task. Deliver what you need to deliver and tap what your admin got. Let it become like a partnership by bridging the gap. Communicate, teach and make yourself effective by making your admin efficient!


An effective executive or entrepreneur spends time to teach admin. That is rule number one. You don’t hire an admin and then let her wait when you are going to have time to train her. You are wasting considerable organization resources doing that. Clearly your admin functions by how you drive them. How you measure time and priority and manage your admin schedule is a matter of your ability to make a large impact in the organization. Never assume anything when training your admin. Ask and train. If you’ve never been a teacher before then just be a good friend and converse. That is one technique - conversations!

In every successful businessman is a great admin, remember that. Make your admin believe in you and your mission. Let her help you achieve your goals. Don’t get her separated from your effort because she is for a fact your support! How could you ever take a support apart from your business goals? If you mean to practice this and do not know how to start then begin with a casual conversation but don’t praise and nag. My God if you want to praise then praise but don’t follow it up with a nag or you will sound plastic!

Focus on effectiveness and efficiency by taking things out and make more time becoming efficient. Let your admin do the paper works while you do the administrative task of marketing and planning. Let your admin manage your schedule while you prepare what to say to your meeting next. If you feel there is too much to do and that there is always work to be done and can’t leave out time to coach your admin then maybe it is high time you get to decide if you want to be effective or not. When you wake up and when you go to bed on same load of paper works on your desk then it is high time you stop and think over what is the role of your admin for you.

Keywords and domain names

September 25th, 2008 No Comments

Your awareness on the importance of keywords starts with your domain name. Choose the name from the keyword if possible because it will make every click a hit! Start reading SEO books and try to conduct experiments and keyword analysis, create a keyword search strategy and implement! The important attitude any blogger or article writer needs if to believe it will for you. If at the moment you find keywords of less priority then let it go and don’t force yourself to doing anything you don’t find much taste. It takes time to realize what’s best. As long as you see little progress you will always ask around to know the next step. Then you will begin to understand SEO rules Google search by the stroke of a word.

It is a bad habit to assume and feel too confident with keywords research and update. Do not take keywords for granted. Keywords are greatly influenced by language and culture. Although we share the same types of words we always express it differently and at random but not often are influenced by news stories and latest fashion buzz. Keyword research is an ongoing process. It is of the same level of importance with forum or blog posting and link building. An hour a day spent for the combination of these task will make you an SEO expert someday.

Keywords help consumers find your site when they start searching for your product. Optimize your websites and drive qualified leads and traffic to your site using the most common words people type into Google search on similar commodity or service. We call them as the most popular word search which gets into the mind of the browsers when they start looking for your product. These popular words are called or known as keywords. It is important to put on relevant keywords to your article without spamming that could give a perfect match to the words these consumers type when they search. Please take note that the search engine brings only the websites containing a perfect match to the words they type and not the thought or the idea. The words must be similar and matches perfectly to what they typed in the search bar. If this is clear to you then you will begin to understand why it is important to know what keywords to use for your website. Generate thousands of keywords to improve your traffic and affiliate campaigns or even Adsense. Get those clicks and earn from the traffic you get using SEO optimization!

Site customization with proper use of keywords gives any ecommerce site direction. Trust that people around the globe may be able to find your website this way faster and easier. Photos and images of the product shall be clear and easy to distinguish. Then describe your products or services by the use of correct keywords. Design and layout is another important thing to consider. I have seen one sassy site today that spent much bandwidth and disk space arranging products for viewing one at a time. I like it.

Opps it is an understatement I guess – superb is better! It kept me clicking on the images while I continually admired their products even it if it is just a bag or shirt or jewelry. Less display in a page keeps the focus and it gives the feeling of simplicity. Over crowding your page as common with ecommerce sites makes your browser’s eyes move from left to right and their mouse scroll up and down. I guess it is absolutely right to spend on web designers to get your website more traffic. This is one good way to let your site and images do the talking and the conversion of this walk-in traffic. Layout and presentation has a lot to do with consumer appeal!

Executives need to let admin do their thing their way to be effective. There is a big difference in really following out your way because each of us in matter of time discovers how to efficiently do our task to be effective. They are an extension of you doing your workload but not an extension of you as a person. They are grounded by corporate rules but not personal law.

This is not a “your wish is my command thing”! It is best to meet at least 5 minutes a day for questions and approvals, like a daily catch up. Too much time spent on coaching and getting notices is already a bore and does not sound pleasant to the ears anymore. Never overdo coaching. See the progress, give tips but never overact training. Coaching is a matter of seeing through implementation. That is the main concept of coaching!

There is no guidebook on following personality rules but there is an SOP on corporate guidelines. What keeps executives to better relationships with their admin is direct instruction and implementation of personality and what they want rather than seeing progress. Stop putting yourself as a model and begin to see your admin eye to eye and how she complete things.

Observe what she sees best and effective for her and forget your wishes for a moment. We are talking about being an effective executive and that includes giving your admin the freedom to perform her duties and tasks in a way she finds comfortable, convenient, easier and motivational. Making her a copycat restricts her from innovating work system and this could affect your effectiveness as an executive!

Email management is a completely delegatable task which majority of the executives feel is their work. Ignoring valuable admin resources makes your system less valuable. Executives doing the tasks of an admin are clear waste of time. Delegate what can be delegated then meet 15 minutes each day of your work week to discuss on important matters. You may focus on the context of the mails under the criteria of what is coming in and not who it’s coming from. You need to filter out important corporate mails from spam and personal mails. Admin can certainly do this for you. Unable to delegate the simplest email handling task erodes trust and may affect work relationship and your effectiveness. CEOs must know how valuable admin are. They must learn how to prioritize email while they are looking at your mailbox and not before that. I repeat give training while they are sitting at their chairs, at their desk, opening your mails and not standing at your table looking at your desktop. There is a big difference to that. Orientation should come with full hands on training to determine content samples.

Smart credit card choices

September 19th, 2008 2 Comments

Having a credit card gives you the leverage to choose on available options when purchasing needed items. It simply gives you the flexibility to buy on installment or straight. Credit card teaches one money management on estimated income against forecast on monthly expenses. It is pretty obvious that they keep the recording of your expenses in one statement of account. This makes everything easier to track and easier to match invoices on month end unlike paying everything in cash where you just wonder at the end of day where your dollars go.

Honestly, I pay everything using my credit card because of some remarkable benefits you get out of it and the convenience of mainly using one card for everything that you need to pay and paying in to only one company at the end of the month. This means one due date to remember and only one company or bank to pay on month end. Real hassle free!

Your credit limit is an edge to experience great vacation deals at the time you need most to reward yourself a little break from long day’s hard work. Reward yourself with good credit scores from on time payments you’ve made and maybe later you can use this to start on some projects like business plans. Credit scores are hard earned reputation brought about by wise management of funds and smart selection of your buying options using your credit cards. It is apparent then that you choose the best card and the best service that is able to give value on your money.

CreditBreak.com gives you the basic features you need to look for when choosing a credit card. We look at the offers like savings and know that some cash are being credited back to us as a reward. Important features are free annual fee, 0% balance transfer, cash back rewards, airline rewards, gasoline rewards, hotel rewards, free concierge services and bonus points for every $1 spent. You can easily get this by using just one credit card for all of your grocery and utility bills. They are must do daily and monthly expenses which your credit card covers complete with a little reward for your loyalty. When you receive your salary, you pay them all so it won’t grow and you won’t be paying interest too. That is the secret. The ability to keep the distance between can do and won’t do.

It is best to call CreditBreak and ask for the card that could give you the most benefit as a reward conscious consumer. Lead them to the card of your choice – the card that will help you save money and earn reward points while you spend what is necessary. The company has given you on their website’s homepage the best offer you can take which is free annual fee and 0% balance transfer. This means continuous savings on the life of the credit card as long as you get to use their best value card offers. CreditBreak has even offered hotel rewards to get you the chance to experience your holiday breaks without breaking your purses. The company offers the lowest monthly interest rate.

What attracted me to their site is the simplicity of their website layout and upfront display of general product features and rewards I’ve been looking for in a credit card. I can guarantee you won’t get lost and confuse clicking and reading a lot of promos. All you need to do is simply call and give your preferences and they offer what’s best!


There is one thing I can say to this: If you can’t delegate then there is no reason having an admin.

People don’t feel comfortable exposing their selves to their admin. Their work, their emails and communications and personal notes shall be seen and read by their admin. There is no point hiring an admin when one does not feel safe and sees admin as risks to profession, business or career. Admin is a resource given by the organization to make you more effective in your task. I guess you need to separate personal emails from corporate emails this time.

Create another ID for your personal email. Gmail is best but Yahoo is also free. There are other email providers you may purchase an email account too or purchase one at Godaddy and then use the domain for your free online photo filer or photo storage while you make use of the free email that comes with the package for the price of $7 to $10 a year depending on your promo code. This is cheap considering your privacy right?

There is nothing wrong in driving yourself to be a better executive or business entrepreneur. Try to ignore the combination of things you usually do and leave it to your admin or virtual assistants to manage. There is no management guidebook when handling delegation. It is all up to you but you should not be spending 90% of your time reading on mails. Let your virtual assistant filter it for you!

Getting caught up in the traffic of your present tasks and your upcoming work load? Just give it up. Know that outsourcing has been going around in the net for sometime and there are several tools that you can use to be effective with them. There is no use doing it all for you on your own. Find what your money can buy and leverage the service that you can find online.

Outsourcing has been helping a lot of business entrepreneurs complete their task 24/7. Why is this so? Because of your different time zones, when you are done and is ready to go to sleep, she wakes up and continue to work for you. The question is: How much of what you can do can be done by your virtual admin assistant?

This is rather a quick decision making process of how much, how long and what extension of yourselves are you able to share with your admin. If you have given it a thought then call me because I am a Virtual Assistant who loves to help you when you get to define your goals lol.

Relationship management within the corporate structure focuses on two things for the executive: your admin or virtual assistant and your important people list. You are to maintain the right relationship for the right people. And this could happen only if you were specifically clear on your admin’s role for you. Do you want to continue managing your calendar and emails instead of your marketing strategy? This is a kind of a crossover role, a kind of a turnover of that little extension of you. Relationship management is about relating to others and you don’t need to handle your calendars and your emails personally.

The trick is to let your admin know the importance of each of your contacts. Let your admin know how to handle your calendar. And let your admin know what the organization’s priorities are. You belong to the corporate world, your time within the company clock is one of admin’s key deliverables to effectiveness. Anything admin can do to improve efficiency is effective. In short, trust your admin can do more if you are confident in delegating tasks. Just ask yourself how much of what you can do can be done by admin or your virtual assistant.

Then transfer duties to admin and make it your responsibility to find a way or establish a system to monitor on things so your admin could be more effective. I had a client before who is only giving this much information for a work assignment that needs that much information. If you do things that way, your admin would never be effective. You and your admin will have a failing relationship. Working with insufficient information and tools could never make your admin effective.

I think this could not be helped. Some managers and entrepreneurs still do not know how to effectively tap their admin or virtual assistant’s skills. Trust could be one factor but confidence on your virtual assistant’s capability to do what you have in mind is another thing. Delegation then is a matter of giving it a go or continue doing the things you want to do which does not justify your 6 figure pay. Well one thing for sure, you would never choose them if you think they are not capable completing what you plan to be their duties or functions. Maybe one needs to stop for awhile and think if they are already clear on the direction of their admin or virtual assistants. Directions are important. Limitation on the accounts of responsibility are reflected from there. Relationships with Admin and virtual assistants can only be improved if the manager or the entrepreneur itself knows his direction.

Converting files to PDF

September 16th, 2008 No Comments

Most Virtual Assistants have problems looking for software that converts any file to PDF. Well for MsWord documents you can just click on print then choose the printer you want to use. Software I know that is an open source is CutePDF. It easily converts word documents to PDf files. Another software that I have stumbled on the net is the Primo PDF. You can also download this for free from their website.

There are plenty of open source software you can make use. Research is important and reading a lot of forums and blogs at least half an hour a day is most helpful. Bookmarking is good if you feel the topic is of value and you don’t see the need at the moment. At least it is already stored in your browser bookmarks and is readily available as the need arises.