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		<title>The Top 8 Tools for Your Virtual Office &#8211; Part 1</title>
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The Top 8 Tools for Your Virtual Office &#8211; Part 1
By Gayle Buske, President and CEO, Team Double-Click® and VirtualAssistingUsA; 
At Team Double-Cick® our clients often ask just how to go about setting up a virtual office in other words how does a small but growing business owner avoid renting bricks and mortar office space. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2009/10/the-top-8-tools-for-your-virtual-office-part-1/</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a new favorite book that I?d like to share with you: ?The Go Giver? by Bob Burg and John David Mann (available on Amazon). I?ve mentioned my friend Bob in other articles I?ve done on sales and marketing. ?The Go Giver? is a great, short story that truly shows the joys and benefits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2009/01/the-joy-of-networking/</link>
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		<title>Key #2 &#8211; Delegate!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many clients, getting started with a virtual assistant can be difficult. Many of my clients are solopreneurs and small business owners who are used to doing everything themselves. They tend to want to maintain doing things for typically one of two reasons: either they have fears that someone else isn?t capable of doing what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/10/key-2-delegate/</link>
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		<title>Key #1: Communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there is one thing I can never stress enough to both my clients and my virtual assistants, is that the key to the success of their working relationship is communication. Communication is so vital to the success of the relationship that I rank it number one on my list. Every once in a while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/09/key-1-communication/</link>
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		<title>What Happened to Etiquette?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Angel Farrington and Gayle Buske 
We?ve had a long running debate amongst our core staff about general worker etiquette. The ongoing topic is that some of the lack of etiquette we see on a daily basis is due to the Information Age itself. We?re so plugged in and turned on but somehow simple business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/09/what-happened-to-etiquette/</link>
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		<title>Working With The ?New? Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gayle Buske
I&#8217;ve heard them called by many names as of late: Generation Y, Gen Y, The Plug-and-Play Generation, The Gotta-Feel-Good Generation. What they&#8217;re all referring to is the new young generation &#8211; our current 20-somethings. Every generation &#8220;deals&#8221; with the generation who comes after them. Their different views, their different ways of doing things, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/working-with-the-%e2%80%9cnew%e2%80%9d-generation/</link>
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		<title>Does A Down Market Mean You Need To Downsize Too?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let?s just say it ? the real estate market is down and the mortgage industry is, well, a smidge messy right now. It?s no secret. The question is how to survive during a poorly performing market. What do most companies cut first when things start to slide? If you answered ?marketing? or ?staff? you nailed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/does-a-down-market-mean-you-need-to-downsize-too/</link>
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		<title>Going Paperless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going paperless. Sound a little scary? Nah, not really. At least it doesn&#8217;t have to be. As few as 10 years ago, we kept box upon box of archived paper files. At one point, we had at least 100 of those boxes stuffed to capacity with trees. Unfortunately, it was a necessity. Back then, though, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/going-paperless/</link>
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		<title>Tips to VA &#8211; Using e-Mail to your Advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working virtually, a reliable email account is essential. We recommend AGAINST using an AOL, Yahoo, or Hotmail account as they appear &#8220;cheap&#8221;. People like to see an email extension, which reflects the business you&#8217;re in &#8211; something with stability.
I constantly receive inquiries asking how on earth I handle all of the emails that I receive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/tips-to-va-using-e-mail-to-your-advantage/</link>
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		<title>The Successful Virtual Administrative Assistant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We continually, despite how well we screen and interview, find people in administrative and other positions that need to be replaced for poor job performance. Now, I know from being self-employed and owning businesses for the past 15 years that not everyone is going to be a good employee/contractor. In fact, statistically, only about 30% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/the-successful-virtual-administrative-assistant/</link>
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