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		<title>Working Green</title>
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By Gayle Buske 
These days everyone is talking about going green: green building, green recycling, and green commuting, green EVERYTHING! And with good reason; all reports indicate that global warming is on the increase; various animal species are on the decrease and near extinction. Much of this is due to the way we, and generations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/09/working-green/</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>Are you still wondering what in the world a virtual assistant can do for you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you still wondering what in the world a virtual assistant can do for you? Below you&#8217;ll find some helpful suggestions. Keep in mind that our VA&#8217;s have been through an extensive interview and training process: Only about 30% of interested VAs are added to the Team Double-Click? roster following their interviews. In addition, our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/are-you-still-wondering-what-in-the-world-a-virtual-assistant-can-do-for-you/</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>Living Life on Our Terms &#8211; Living Virtually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How often do you wish to be freer? Living in America, we?re afforded more freedom than in any other part of the world. We can go anywhere we want without asking permission of our Government. We can hold any job we want for anyone who will hire us, as long as it?s legal of course. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/living-life-on-our-terms-living-virtually/</link>
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		<title>Valuable article: Avoiding Virtual Assistant Performance Pitfalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last article, Virtual Assistant-Hiring Pitfalls we explored the common hot water items companies face when hiring virtual assistants and how to avoid them. Now it&#8217;s time to talk about possible performance pitfalls and how we can protect ourselves and the virtual assistant when hiring.
What&#8217;s really most important when hiring a virtual assistant is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/valuable-article-avoiding-virtual-assistant-performance-pitfalls/</link>
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		<title>Make Sense: Avoiding Virtual Assistant-Hiring Pitfalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can hear it now, ?What?? All this time you and others have been telling us about the benefits of hiring virtual assistants and now you tell us there are pitfalls?? I feel like the old Endust? commercial ?And now Pledge? says to watch for build-up?? It?s as true with hiring virtual assistants as it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/make-sense-avoiding-virtual-assistant-hiring-pitfalls/</link>
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		<title>Setting up Your Virtual Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Team Double-Click?, our clients often ask just how to go about setting up a virtual office &#8211; in other words &#8211; how does a small but growing business owner avoid renting bricks-and-mortar office space &#8211; and with good reason. Even the tiniest of offices ?in town? can run several hundred dollars a month. Add [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/setting-up-your-virtual-office/</link>
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		<title>Soaring Gas Prices! Makes Even More Sense To Hire Virtual Assistant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when gas prices soar to all-time highs of $3.00 and $3.50 per gallon &#8211; more in some areas? Recent tragedies, such as Hurricane Katrina, and alleged oil shortages have driven gas prices to an all-time high. Most of us can ride out high gas prices in the short term but what happens when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/soaring-gas-prices-makes-even-more-sense-a-to-hire-virtual-assistant/</link>
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