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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Virtual Assistant - THE Blog
Virtual Assistant Conference
Do you know it’s less than 3 months till AVAC? The dates are 12/13 March and once Christmas and the New Year has passed, that time will go very quickly. Why not gift yourself a booking or gift…
- December 17th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Virtual Assistant - THE Blog
Protecting your accounts
At this time of year (Christmas/New Year) scams will be on the rise and so will phishing emails with promises of all sorts of things through bogus promotions. One of the VAs from my team posted a warn…
- December 7th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
And now for something special
Thank you to all the readers this year who have helped make this blog worth writing. I know my posts have been less than in past years but I expect if you know what’s taken place in my life yo…
- December 2nd, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
In a Social Media tug-of-war?
Then this useful tool might just help sway your thoughts to what you should and shouldn’t be participating in. I thought it very interesting to watch and it will probably open a few minds and…
- November 26th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Virtual Assistant - THE Blog
Message for those wanting to be a VA
I often get requests via email from people who want to become a Virtual Assistant. Sometimes via my VA forum, sometimes via my website contact form, sometimes by email and sometimes by phone. It’…
- November 25th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
When something needs to give…
I’ve just had a liberating moment – well, more than a moment, quite a few minutes really. But I feel like I’ve just freed up some of my time and will most likely fill it with somethi…
- November 10th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Keeping it local
My husband and I have recently shifted to the country from suburban life. It’s still a suburb of Melbourne but an outer suburb amongst the hills and bushland. It’s beautiful and we look…
- October 28th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Proverbs 31 Woman - WAHM
Looking forward…
Proverbs 31:31 Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate. My husband and I have been house hunting for most of this year. We wanted to buy a place in th…
- October 11th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Kathie's Garden
Dandenong Gardens Festival
My husband and I are shifting to the foot of the Dandenongs at the end of October and it’s made me look at what’s happening in that area. This past year my passion for photography has been…
- September 29th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Kathie's Garden
Goodbye to the old…
My husband and I are selling our home and shifting to a 2 acre property in the hills. So these photos may well be the last from our current garden. This is our front yard.
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Beware the Tax Office Scam
I noticed in my spam filter two messages that are supposed to be from the Australian Tax Office telling me about a Tax Refund. I don’t believe for a moment that they would contact me that way &#…
- September 7th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Proverbs 31 Woman - WAHM
Permission for time out
This year has been very different to the past years of our lives. We’ve gone through tremendous upheaval and change which began almost 12 months ago when we lost our darling Miriam. If anyone…
- September 6th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Doh! Did it again!
I forgot to check the amount of webspace available for a multi-user blog before upgrading it and the thing has crashed. I had to backtrack to find out what I did when a similar incident happened ear…
- August 11th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Blog or post?
You are viewing a blog - a series of articles or posts that make up the blog. This particular piece you are reading is a post or blogpost. One of my pet peeves, although only little, is people who a…
- August 4th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Beware the TradeMark Scam
I received two of these letters this past week and was shocked to receive bills I wasn’t expecting. They were for my trademarks and I couldn’t recall having to pay bills of that size befor…
- August 3rd, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Virtual Assistant - THE Blog
Listed in 100 More Women Bloggers To Watch
WE Magazine for Women’s has a new list of 100 More Women Bloggers to Watch and I’m thrilled to announce that my photo blog is on that list. I encourage you to visit that list - you’l…
- July 28th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Kathie's Garden
Update
Our garden has had some clearing in the backyard – it was getting overgrown. Graham and I like it like that – natural looking but we’re planning on putting this house up for sale and…
- July 23rd, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Inappropriate Google Ads appearing on sites
Anyone else experiencing this? I had a client contact me about a week or so ago advising there was inappropriate advert content on her site and to get it removed. I contacted Google and filled in a re…
- July 22nd, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Time Management In An Instant: 60 Ways to Make the Most of Your Day
In today’s hurly-burly work environment many business people find it challenging to avoid distraction, stay focused, use their time and energy to maximum benefit, and gain ground on important goal…
- July 20th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Photographers’ sites in Australia
As many of you know I’ve recently renewed my passion for photography in a big way. I’ve been doing a lot of Australiana photography but my recent trip to Canada and Alaska produced over 4,…
- July 10th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Proverbs 31 Woman - WAHM
Growth and Healing
I manage a forum for women interested in being Proverbs 31 women and I had shared with them there about the loss of our daughter some months ago. One of the women had commented she didn’t know…
- July 9th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Looking for a decent spam filter
What can you recommend? Here’s the scenario. I have been using Spamarrest.com for several years quite happily, for a number of my domains. But in the past twelve months I feel they’ve…
- June 11th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Virtual Assistant - THE Blog
Pardon my absence but I’m on leave…
I will go back to posting regularly in July but for this month I’m now well and truly on holidays, in beautiful Canada. It began with the FoVA conference in Niagara Falls in the first week of…
- June 7th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Virtual Assistant - THE Blog
What Type of Logo Should You Have for Your Business?
I have guest poster Ben Johnson sharing on the importance of the type of logo for your business. Your logo really is the proverbial “calling card” for your business. A potential customer or…
- June 3rd, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Virtual Assistant - THE Blog
FoVA 2009
It is the evening of 2nd June in Canada and tonight my husband and I met for the first time, some VAs from the US and Canada. Barb Lang, founder of FoVA, coordinated this 2nd annual event and tonight…
- May 30th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Workplace Ministry
Goal setting - a biblical principle
I’d always felt it was important to set goals and write them down. Something ‘magical’ happens when you take them from your mind and begin to visualise them in words and images. This…
- May 17th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Want to learn more about social networking?
When hearing about Twitter, Facebook, and others do your eyes glaze over or do you get excited about the prospect of learning how to network more with others? Whatever way it is, you need to know abou…
- May 6th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Life with Twitter
It’s amazing how a new networking tool can soon become addictive, if you let it! Where once I thought I only needed one blog and now own many (on different topics), it would seem the same appl…
- April 30th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: Proverbs 31 Woman - WAHM
Mothers and the Proverbs 31 Woman
The Proverbs 31 woman was a wife, mother and business woman. It’s important to remember those three aspects - all knitted into one. Today women struggle to manage all their various roles and th…
- April 7th, 2009
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kathiemt has posted a new entry on: SOHO-Life
Whose voice was that?
Picture this scene. You’re busy concentrating on something in the office or perhaps having a conversation with someone, but only half concentrating as you’re dialling a phone number to mak…
