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Happy Anniversary

2009-06-30T10:44:00.000-07:00

HAPPY FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPVIRTUALASSISTANTS

EPVIRTUALASSISTANTS is composed of a team of Virtual Assistants from the Philippines who are geared to provide quality services for your business needs.

The first virtual assistant company in Aklan.

We are now celebrating the 1st year anniversary.

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. John Mark Pelayo the owner of this company.

Congratulations also guys for your hard work to make this company successful.

I do hope that we will be more committed in providing excellent customer service to our clients.

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

Happy Birthday

2009-06-28T04:00:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

KUYA MARK

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.

We are wishing you another year
Of laughter, joy and fun,
Surprises, love and happiness,
And when your birthday’s done,

I hope you feel deep in your heart,
As your birthdays come and go,
How very much you mean to me,
More than you can know.

We wish you a happy happy happy birthday

FROM:

Graveyarder's Team

Top 10 Directory Submission Sites

2009-06-21T11:36:00.000-07:00

by: JULIUS AGUSTIN

A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.

A web directory is not a search engine and does not display lists of web pages based on keywords; instead, it lists web sites by category and subcategory. The categorization is usually based on the whole web site rather than one page or a set of keywords, and sites are often limited to inclusion in only a few categories. Web directories often allow site owners to directly submit their site for inclusion, and have editors review submissions for fitness.

Below is a listing of the Top 10 Directories displayed in alphabetical order

Best of the Web

a directory where all the webmasters want their website/blog to appear. When you try to submit your website here, make sure that you are submitting your website in the relevant category and your site should not be under construction. If you are willing to get your site listed in ‘Best of the web’ directory, then you have to pay $99.95 yearly fee or $249.95 one time fee. I would highly recommend this directory because most of the pages have page rank 4 or 5 and will help you in improving your search engine rankings.

URL: http://botw.org/

Gimpsy - Active Sites for Active People

Gimpsy is an Internet directory that categorizes sites in a new and unique way. Unlike other Internet directories, which categorize sites according to their subject, Gimpsy is concerned first and foremost with the service that a site provides.

URL:http://www.gimpsy.com/

GoGuides

is a searchable human edited web directory, categorized by location and topics and also includes features like image search and updated news.
Major websites like iseDB.com have recognized the worth of the content posted on the site and consider it one of the major online directories.

URL: http://www.goguides.org/

Google Directory - Powered by the ODP

Collection of links arranged into hierarchical subcategories. The links and their categorization are from the Open Directory Project, but are sorted using PageRank.

URL: http://directory.google.com/

Jayde

Jayde is the internet's largest B2B Search Engine and one of the web's oldest business directories. Jayde was founded in 1996. Jayde is an entirely human reviewed directory with a lightning fast search.

URL : http://www.jayde.com

JoeAnt

Joeant was started in 2001 and is a great web directory having links to quality sites only.
Volunteer editors are registered automatically and do not have to go through a review process. The sites they submit go to a higher-level editor regardless of topic. This allows the submitter to get a quick review of the site without the likelihood that the reviewer is a competitor.

URL : http://www.joeant.com/

ODP - Open Directory Project – dMOZ(formerly directory.mozilla.org)

This is the largest and most comprehensive human-edited directory on the internet. Submission at Dmoz is free but the waiting period for a site acceptance/refusal here can be long. If you are able to get your website in dmoz directory, it will be automatically picked by many search engine and directories including Google, AOL, Excite, Lycos etc.

URL : http://dmoz.org/

Skaffe - The International Directory

Quality sites with original content and value to the directory should be listed here. They are building the best directory on the net. High-quality and original content are key factors for them.

URL : http://www.skaffe.com/

WebSavvy Directory

WebSavvy Directory provides an index of high quality, family friendly, child safe resources, which are human edited and reviewed prior to inclusion into the Directory. WebSavvy is a PICS labeled Directory which accepts websites that follow either the ICRA or SafeSurf standards.

URL : http://www.websavvy.cc/

Yahoo! Directory

The Yahoo! Directory is a web directory which rivals the Open Directory Project in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering.
Yahoo! provides both a search engine and a directory service, and the directory is searchable separately from the rest of their search engine results.
Paid submission review $299.00 USD (Renewed Annually)

URL : https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/express/intro/

Virtual Assistants Top 10 Project Management Tool

2009-06-18T19:59:00.000-07:00

Virtual Assistance must be equipped with accessible project management tool that are best suit to manage easily and organized the projects within the team and with the clients. As a company working online there are hundreds of tools that are available for the improvement of the business processing and workflow either for free or free trial account. There are excellent diagnostic tools which able for the company to see and organize the report of the late task, critical paths, resource issues and activities. This tool helps the company in handling the projects automatically with ease.

The following are the Top 10 Project Management Tools which commonly used by those company working online.

1. MyClientSpot – this software had been created to help virtual assistants, clients and subcontractors to communicate and organize their projects. Both the virtual assistants and clients can see the progress of the projects and project history. The clientspot have the following features: email notification, shared calendar, reporting, time tracking, file sharing and deadlines.

2. Basecamp - A very clean dashboard that gives Project Overview of things, without any frills and fireworks. The tabbed interface places Message Board, Files Area, Milestones and To Do Lists are just click away.

3. EasyProjects – the easiest all in one web based project management software that specifically designed for project management, task tracking and team collaboration hassle free and straightforward.

4. SmartSheet - manages work and files better than Excel and E-mail Ideal for lists, projects, and status reports and easy to share online with your team and clients.

5. ProjectInsight – is the leading web-based project management software solution in the mid market. It is an intuitive, easy to use and the only wed based that offers project teams several strategic benefits.

6. AceProjec – is a unique web-based project management tool solution and has plenty of features such as time tracking, Gantt charts, calendars and document management.

7. CoMindWork – is a massive project management application that offers you all the features you find in smaller applications around the internet at one single place on brilliantly designed and put together website. It is a online systems that allows you to view current task, from anywhere where you have an internet connection.

8. Project.net – a complete web-based enterprise project management applications that helps companies plan, execute and deliver on their entire portfolio of projects.

9. IdidWork – IdidWork for the employees keep work log, see how your work impacts with the team, get feedback from your manager vice versa with the managers. The managers can see if everyone is working on and see if where to use management time.

10. VirtualAssistantManager – the software that are specifically designed for virtual assistants and personal assistants. It allows the clients to enter their own task requests. Checking the status of the tasks assignments, due dates and no need to access multiple tools to access the information. Easily recording the time spent on each task.

Virtual Assistants Top 10 Project Management Tool

2009-06-18T04:02:00.000-07:00

The following are the Top 10 Project Management Tools which commonly used by those company working online.

4. SmartSheet - manages work and files better than Excel and E-mail Ideal for lists, projects, and status reports and easy to share online with your team and clients.

6. AceProjec – is a unique web-based project management tool solution and has plenty of features such as time tracking, Gantt charts, calendars and document management.

8. Project.net – a complete web-based enterprise project management applications that helps companies plan, execute and deliver on their entire portfolio of projects.

Top 3 Virtual Assistant Associations

2009-06-10T20:52:00.000-07:00

According to Wikipedia, a Virtual Assistant, typically abbreviated to VA, is an entrepreneur who provides professional administrative, technical or creative assistance to clients from a home office. They usually work for other small business, brokers and consultancy groups. It is estimated that there are as few as 5, 000-8, 000 or as many as 35, 000 Virtual Assistants worldwide; the profession is growing in centralized economies with “fly-in, fly-out” staffing practices.

Here are the Top 3 Virtual Assistant Associations
Google:

1. IVVA - the International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA), with over 1,000 members, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional education and development of members of the Virtual Assistance profession, and to educating the public on the role and function of the Virtual Assistant. While certification is by no means requisite for IVAA members, IVAA holds the distinction of being the only organization offering the comprehensive IVAA Certified Virtual Assistant (CVA) exam, recognized internationally as the standard that Virtual Assistants strive to attain. Information is provided to the public so that a qualified virtual assistant can be found for your project.

2. Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce - the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is the premier Virtual Assistant association with a body of Virtual Assistant business knowledge and know-how that is second to none! Their passion is helping Virtual Assistants run smarter, more successful businesses that bring them more money and greater personal happiness, freedom and client satisfaction.

3. VA networking - our company epVirtual Assistants is one of the proud members of VA networking. VAnetworking’s Mission as the leading Virtual assistant networking association online is to maintain a quality community that helps earn both wealth and respect while maintaining the lifestyle they desire. They currently have 11489 registered members at VANA.

Top Ten Social Bookmarking Sites

2009-06-09T13:59:00.000-07:00

Social Bookmarking is an easy way to provide lists of informative links. It helps Internet users to store, search, and manage bookmarks on the Internet. Users can save links to web pages that they want to share or remember.

There’s a lot of Social Bookmarking Sites, and here are the top ten sites:

Digg.com – the most popular and notable of the social bookmarking sites. Quantcast estimates that that Digg has about 25 million unique visitors a month.

Propeller.com -- (formerly Netscape) is comfortable the second biggest social bookmarking site behind Digg with over 5.8 million monthly uniques, of which 3.6 million (62%) are in the U.S.

StumbleUpon - Stumbleupon.com reports over 4.5 million members and Quantcast classifies it as a top 5,000 site that has about 1.5 million unique visitors a month from the U.S.

Reddit.com - is becoming a very popular social bookmarking site with about 1.2 million unique visitors in the U.S., making it slightly larger than Del.icio.us.

Del.icio.us - is the oldest social bookmarking site and Quantcast classifies it as a top 5,000 site that gets about 1.1 million unique visitors a month from the U.S.

Newsvine.com - is a top 10,000 site that reaches over 362K U.S. monthly uniques.

Fark.com - is a much more trafficked site than people expect. With 1,972,698 monthly unique visitors in the U.S., it is bigger than StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us and Reddit.

Blinklist.com - is a top 10,000 site that reaches over 353K U.S. monthly uniques.

Clipmarks.com - Clipmarks reaches over 205K U.S. monthly uniques.

Shoutwire.com - This site reaches approximately 70,742 U.S. monthly uniques. The site appeals to a more male (60%), younger audience (38% are under 24).

TOP TEN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE

2009-06-09T09:30:00.000-07:00

Social networking websites offer additional features. In addition to this are the blogs and forums. The members can express themselves by designing their own profile page to reflect their own personality. The most popular extra features include music and video sections. Members can read bios of their favorite music artists from the artist's profile page as well as listen to their favorite songs and watch music videos. The video section can include everything from member–generated videos from hundreds of subjects to TV clips and movie trailers.

1. Facebook
2. MySpace
3. Bebo
4. Friendster
5. hi5
6. Orkut
7. PerfSpot
8. Yahoo! 360
9. Zorpia
10. Netlog

Don’t let your social life fade away.
Express yourself, share your interests, connect with friends, make new friends and much more when you join the social networking phenomenon.

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Start Your Own Online Business

2009-05-15T00:49:00.000-07:00

Currently, one of the most in-demand profit pulling business is Internet Marketing. Even if you’re brand-spanking newbie starting from scratch, you can easily build your internet income fast. And that’s possible with the help of Joel Christopher’s Live, Interactive, Hands-on, MasterListBuilder Fun Shop in UST, Manila, Philippines on June 12,2009.

This one-day event will teach you step-by-step system on how to achieve the explosive profits and success for your business. The target market of this event is regardless of age and gender as long as you are interested in internet marketing, online business, cost effective business, networking, global business, looking for extra money, etc...

Manila-based people who has interest can readily join in the event. High school and college students who has surely great interest in internet business are also invited, people from nearby provinces can also join, as much as Filipinos working abroad. As for those who won’t be able to attend in the said event, they can still watch it because it’s a live recorded event.

The event is also available for the foreigners as they may watch it from their personal computers.

Robin Amoranto will be the one promoting the June 12 event. This will be a big help to those who want to have cash-flowing internet income or business. The audience of the upcoming event will surely learn benefitable advices from the MasterListBuilder Joel Christopher for their business to grow fully. This might be your chance to have a profitable and successful business. Don’t miss this chance!

The tickets for the said event can be bought at http://www.MasterListBuilder.net/app/?Clk=3004961 . And if you want to know more details about the Speaker Joel Christopher, you can visit at http://www.MasterListBuilder.net/app/?af=969196.

Build your own cash flowing, profit-pulling internet income in just One day!

2009-05-14T04:57:00.000-07:00

One of the most in demand jobs nowadays is online marketing. Most of our profitable business today is computer aided, which primarily means on line business. However, success doesn’t come overnight. As easy as it may seem, Internet Marketing isn’t an easy task, you need to have the proper training and knowledge to be a successful internet marketer. Otherwise, you might lose the investment without having an expertise with this kind of business.

The question is, how do we earn money online? Fret no more! All the things you need to learn in order to become a successful internet marketer will be yours! Well, we are so grateful to announce that we will be having an event which will suit your needs and definitely solve your problem. Finally, here’s how you can build your own cash-flowing, profit-pulling internet income or business. You can actually learn the ruff of step by step system of internet marketing. A simple, paint-by-numbers, short-cut, hands-on list & profit-building system to unleash the explosive profits hidden in your prospect & customer list -- even if you're starting from scratch! With this regards, we are lucky to inform you that we can now actually help you build your own profitable business for a very affordable rate. Thought, developing your professionalism as individual entrepreneurs. At Joel Christopher’s live, Interactive, Hands-on MasterListBuilder FUN Shop in UST, Manila, Philippines on June 12, 2009, you’ll discover a fast, sure and risk-free way to build your internet income Fast. For your easy access, please visit as at http://www.MasterListBuilder.net/app/?Clk=3004961. We most appreciate your inquiries to know more about the speaker for this event at http://www.MasterListBuilder.net/app/?af=969196. You will surely build a more comities and profit-pulling internet business.

Epvirtual Invaded Plurklandia

2009-04-22T17:40:00.000-07:00

Hi...Hello... before i start this thing, May i have the honor to introduce my self... Im Timothy James Rosales Villanueva Tj for short and AKA "PulangDemonyo" on plurk. Have you ever heard of plurk, "plurkplurk tayo" or may be " Karma Up Baby! "?. This three are just a sample tagline if you experience the plurkycraze of plurklandia. Plurk is just like twitter you need to be popular to be followed by other users, but what's the most exciting thing on plurk? its just not only the users who will follow you but the "karma" thing.... The more karma you have the more option will be added on your page like more icons...the smiley things...and a lot more.... so if you want to sign-up i'll give you the link its www.plurk.com, its for free Baby....

Working With Jomar Hilario

2009-04-15T18:58:00.000-07:00

By Geove Racia

Working with a person you actually do not meet in person, no face to face conversation is stiff. It requires a lot of communication for you to understand the work he/she want you to do. But the most difficult on this situation is that when you have communication barrier and you perceive your task opposite on what the clients want you to understand.

I have experience working with different clients with different culture with also different personality and I myself

could prove that it is hard to deal with people with other culture but the bottom line is, it still depend on the person's personality but whatever they behave and act on work the most important thing is that you finished your work and make the client satisfied with the job.

One of our longest client handled is a Filipino client, Jomar Hilario. He is involved in internet marketing and makes money on it, train individuals and share his knowledge regarding how to make money on the internet. He is also a God fearing person. He is involved with religious events and advertise it through the internet to also inform others to have a moment with God and to have fellowship to our brothers and sisters in Christ. With a vast knowledge on the internet and skills on this industry, he is a successful internet marketer and had establish many seminars which he shared his secrets and techniques on how to make it on this industry.

My experience with him as a VA is worth keeping. He has imparted his knowledge to us with social networking, online promotion and a whole lot more. Despite my being inexperienced, he never hesitated to teach me and also adviced me that these things are essential to the industry that I have

chosen and that I should know this and be familiar of this. I really admire him for such generosity of teaching me things and also helping me to develop my knowledge about these things.

He has helped me improve my powerpoint presentation skills as well. I did learn to make a powerpoint presentation with his supervision. He guides me on correcting my mistakes and gives advices after that. He definitely appreciates whenever I did the job correctly. He is patient with me regarding my task if something went wrong with the work he just tell me what is suppose to be done on a particular task. Many times I got his instruction wrong and I also accepted that I am in fault but he still trust me to do the task. NOW I know these things already - and I'm confident that Im good with it all because of him.

As his Virtual Assistant I have learned a lot from him, he is patient whenever there are task i don't understand that he want me to do. He also taught me things that were really essential to the industry I have chosen. I really thank you Sir Jomar Hilario I am really grateful to have work with you.

Geovelyn Racia is one of the pioneer Virtual Assistants of epVirtual Assistants. Her skills includes: Online Marketing, Link Building, Blogging, Blog Promotion. Want to hire Geove as your Virtual Assistant, click here.

My Experience as an Epvirtual Assistant

2009-04-14T16:55:00.000-07:00

by: Lorraine Kim

My first day was the toughest day of all,for many negative reasons like I always think for worthless and never for the good one,but as the day goes on I found out that I am enjoying in this job,and I love the people in this group.There are times that I don't know what to do with the article that I am working on but there's a good office mates that will lend their help to you and never snub you,and I am so thankful for that.
It is a big opportunity that I am given a chance to work as a VA ,and to handle this kind of job.For me it is a big step for a good tomorrow,the experience that I will absorb or get in this field will help more to my future career.

"My Experience As An epVirtual Assistant"

2009-04-14T07:36:00.000-07:00

By: Ilyn Reyes

My experience as an epVirtual Assistant; well, eversince I started as a Virtual Assistant, I found this job so stressful and very challenging. epVirtual Assistants experience or do a lot of struggles like understanding the instructions very well from the clients and making our tasks surely done and above all I'm a night shift so I sleep late or I don't sleep of course with my team - The Graveyarder's Team.

We can do it Graveyarder's Team...

I have learned a lot from this job like expanding my computer skills, do different kind of tasks from different sites, also I'm familiarize with all the in's and out's in this job and of course different people i've meet..Also, I found out that I should have patience,.but frankly speaking i don't practice to be more patient. But i tried...

I'm proud that I'm the 1st VA of epVirtual Assistants.

Ilyn Reyes is the first Virtual Assistant employed at epVirtual Assistants. She is now the Team Lead for the Graveyarders Team. Her specialties include internet research, craigslist posting, social bookmarking and link building

Experience As A Virtual Assistant

2009-04-13T14:01:00.000-07:00

By: TJ Villanueva

As a first timer on this field I thought its just an easy thing and will not make my brain explode...My first week I have to adjust, my schedule 4am to 12nn and I had a hard time to wake up as early as 4am (sleepAdik) and that time I have other responsibilities to work out, I'm a Cashier/Manager at a videoke bar owned by my buddy, and right after my duty which ends at 12 noon, I have 4 hours to sleep at 5pm will go to videoke bar until 1am or 2am Hmmm...very hard to do 2 jobs 24 hours a day, well financially speaking, its good but my body and brain can't take it anymore so I have to give-up my cashier job and give enough time to concentrate being a virtual assistant.

And as time goes by the task are getting harder and harder, but i like to do things in the first time i just tell my self that it will be a new things to learn that will add to my skills. as for now well i have to be prepare anytime, cause every day is a new day for us VA's

VA Tool: Basecamp

2009-04-11T01:41:00.000-07:00

By: Kristelle del Rosario

Trusted by millons, Basecamp is a web based project management tool developed by 37Signals. Since 2004, Basecamp is the worlds most respected brands, entrepreneur, non profits and small businesses depend on it to make their projects smoothly. It is dependable, secure and safe.

Yes, it is at the top! Use basecamp if you are searching for an online project management tool that is very easy to learn, record time, allows you to store files, and can be used to communicate with your clients.

Interface

The interface of Basecamp is very simple and clean, even when you have dozens of projects, each with information, files, updates and etc.

Time Tracking and Recording

Basecamp allows you to record the time. You can track time for everything and anything, Basecamp's open nature allows you to easily do this. Evrything is recorded. You can add later if you forget to add time, or change down the road because it is editable.

Collaboration

You can give your client an account and allow them to access to any number of projects. Incridebly easy interface for clients and development team! Send message through the simple messaging interface and everything is recorded. The addition of reply via email was a more recent that kicked up the collaboration factor. It eliminates need for client to login when using the system.
Plus, for any private message, you can make sure that you and your team can see the message.
Yuo can also attached a file!

To do's and Tasks

Assigning tasks to people in your organization or company is one of the most important parts of any project management system. Basecamp do well at this in the simplest possible way. You can create to do list, track time per list and specific task, and your team can exchange information back to you via comments on each task.

"Basecamp brings people together".

epVirtual Assistant's Blog - Relaunched

2009-04-05T15:44:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the new and updated epvirtual Assistant's blog. We have updated our blog site and promise to update this on a regular basis.

We have been silent for quite sometime already and neglected to update the site due to our very hectic work schedules. So here's the latest news and updates from epVirtual Assistants:

New Team Members:
Last March 2009 we have hired new trainees to join the fastest growing Virtual Assistance company in Aklan. They have gone through 1 whole month of rigid training and all have passed their final examination:

Lets all welcome:
Timothy James Villanueva
Ruby Ann Romano
JP Franco
Christopher Yu

New Office Furnitures:

As a sign of how fast our home-based business is growing, we have recently updated all our office furniture. We said goodbye to all our kitchen tables, and torn computer tables and said hello to cool blue office desks and Ms. Elle's hot pink office table!

Lenten Season:
The week of April 6-12 is the Holy Week in the Philippines. Philippine Government declared the following dates as holidays:
April 6 - Holy Monday
April 9 and 10 - Holy Thursday and Holy Friday

epVirtual Assistants will be on a Friday, April 10 to observe the Holy week. Regular working schedule will be observed on Saturday April 11.

Summer Time is here once again and watch out for our company outing this May!

My Escapades As A Virtual Assistant

2009-04-03T02:23:00.000-07:00

By: Imee P.Fulgencio

The word virtual assistant (va) is new to me when I'm not yet involved here in this work. I got a lot of ? marks in my head but it all vanished as I started as a trainee to be virtual assistant.

It gives a lot of learning experiences to me through trainings, team activities and attend some online workshops. As time pass by, I found myself pretty enough creating and exploring new things.

Being a virtual assistants is not an easy job. Why? I have gone through all these stuff. First, adjustment from my co teams (new acquaintances) 2nd, my time schedule (shifting), 3rd, I must be computer addict/savvy (whew, really i am?) 4th, how to cope up pressure for deadline tasks of our clients, and the last I must be open for all the newbies or flexible enough, ready to face new challenges, willing to learn and be consistent.

For now, I am glad and proud being a Virtual Assistant. Not because I am earning but, because I am enjoying my work. I love helping and be of service to busy people that can't organized even their personal emails. I meet new friends (worldwide) through online, updated with all the news and love to communicate by means of chat, plurk, facebook, etc.

To all VA's, I would like to say I am happy to be one!

Online Resources

2009-02-03T14:29:00.000-08:00

Collection of Online Resources

Fantastic Books
Billys Books - A fantastic Book Store

Furniture Sore
ROCKA er opptatt - Hos ROCKA har du muligheten til � innrede hjemmet ditt innvendig og utvendig med stilfulle og lekre m�bler

Internet
Website Design - A fantastic site for website design and Optimization

Internet Marketing
Doctors Marketing Campaigns - Doctors Add Campaings, Professional marketing for doctors

Joint Pain
Knee pain relief - OsteoTrim is an advanced knee pain supplement that soothes your knee joint pain while helping you lose weight.

Mortgage Loans
Mortgage Loans - By Mandalay Loans - Mandalay Loans - Mortgage Loans

Online Printing
Business Printing - Printerbees.com is a fantastic site for business cards,envelopes,calenders,stickers, notepads,postcards and lables.

State Auctions
State and Government auctions - State and Government Auctions

The Folly of Worry

2009-01-11T09:48:00.000-08:00

Matthew 6:25 --- " Therefore I say to you , do not worry about your life."

As Christians, we have no need to worry. Yet it's one of those things we are all guilty of doing. We often become concerned over matters that should not trouble us. There are two things we should never to worry about. First, we must not be anxious about things we can't control. Turning them over to the Lord in prayer, we should leave them in His hands. Second, we should never worry about things we can control. We are to stop our worrying and start doing something about them.

There's a missionary gave this excellent advice: " Let us give up our words, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into God's hand; and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about."

We should avoid worry, not because of the distress it brings to us but above all because it displeases the Lord. for the child of God, to worry is to doubt the heavenly Father --- and that's an insult to Him. He merits our confidence.

Placing our trust firmly in God and His promises will help us avoid the folly of worry.

The Bible gives a remedy.
By which we can be worry-free:
It's simply this: Trust God and pray,
Then watch the worries fade away.

"When we worry, we believe more in our problems than in God's promises."

God bless everyone

Christmas Spirit

2008-12-21T10:13:00.000-08:00

Philippians 2:5 -- "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus".

How would you define "the Christmas spirit"? Would it be a friendly smile between strangers, the sound of familiar carols, a tree with twinkling lights in sea of brightly wrapped packages, or just that good feeling you get this time of the year?

None of these elements capture the real meaning of the phrase. They represent feeling that maybe a response to the commercialism that distorts the real spirit of Christmas.

For me, CHRISTmas is a very joyous excitement if we only focused our attention on the event we celebrate, rather than on the celebration of the event. It is JESUS birth we are honoring and celebrating, and that always makes for a good Christmas. So, let celebrate Christmas not only on the month of December but let's celebrate it everyday. And let the Spirit of Christmas always be seen in all our living.

In Philippians 2, Paul described the God of heaven and earth as laying aside His divine glory and becoming our servant by dying on the cross for our sins.Then he urged us to duplicate that same mind of humble service . That's the true Christmas Spirit.

Have a blessed Christmas everyone!..

Virtual Assitants Resources

2008-12-18T14:32:00.000-08:00

the LOGO - the real thing to start a real business.

One of the va' s resources is LOGO. For some, creating a logo is important because it represents your company or brand. It is where you are recognized by the market.... but the only reason a logo was build, it is because you're going to start a real business that contemplates and affects what your business is all about.

In starting a business like a virtual assistants (at home)or online business, the best thing to do is to have a professional logo that comes up with a good looking logo for this will be your
wise investments, you're making a real money in your business.

The ep virtual assistants has its logo. Three colors that represents the team who can provide quality, and excellent service.

The Virtual Assistant Tools

2008-12-16T15:47:00.000-08:00

To become a good virtual assistants we need to have this what we called the virtual assistant tool. The virtual assistant tool is a web-based that allows the virtual assistant to be more productive, enable to save data in a safe place and able to collaborate with the clients. Here are some of the lists of the most favorite tools of the virtual assistants. Most of this is either free or at least have this free trial account.

1. Google Docs- It is one of the great way enable to the virtual assistants to have a web based documents that able to store and you will able to share it with your clients.

2. Google Reader-Most of this don’t know this , but you will able to used the Google reader to subscribe to web searches and with that tool, you can aggregate industry information and quickly become and expert on what you need to.

3. Zoho CRM- The Free CRM that is very good. A CRM is a tool that helps you close sales by tracking everything through the sales funnel.

4. Survey Monkey- You should be using this or a similar tool to get feedbackfrom clients periodically.

5. BaseCamp-- Simple, interactive project management system that really focuses on collaboration. Collaboration with clients is the key to providing more value.

6. Wordpress- Yes you have to pay a few dollars to host it someplace, but the Wordpress developers are not getting that money. That is the best free software I have ever seen.

7. DocStoc.com- Officially, you should always hire a legal professional. The reality is some of use go out and find a document we can modify ourselves. You can save on legal fees just by having one done first and asking a lawyer to review it after.

8. High Rise- There is a free version of this software. It is excellent for sharing contacts. If you are doing online advocacy, this tool is a must for you to work with your client.

Web- Based tools is very important to become a successful virtual assistant. Have you heard about this new online tool for the control freaks, those who love to organize, say professional organizers and virtual assistants?

Making a Quiet Time

2008-12-14T07:26:00.000-08:00

Matthew 14:23 -- " And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on a mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there."

There is something to be said for quiet time. We live in a time where we are constantly on the move. There is always something or someone demanding our time and talents. There is this feeling of urgency eating away at the time we've set aside to rest. Between our work and schedules, outside activities, church and heaven forbid, should we forget television time, there just is not enough hours in a day.

After a while, we find ourselves less focused and the quality of the activity we perform slips. This is just another way Satan pulls us into his snare. He so self-involves us that we lose track of things. Our body tires, our mind muddles, and illness sets in. I know, I've been there. Wether we fill our time with outside activities or church related activities, there is a limit to what we can physically do. Once our bodies reach that limit, we go into shut-down.

Even if our activities are good ones - ones that involve the church, the reality of the matter is, we are only human, and we can each only do so much before we wear out. Finding a quiet time to study the Word, even if its only five minutes at a time, refreshes our hearts. It keeps us in touch with the Father.

More so, seeking those constant moments of silence so that we are able to focus GOD-ears on what the Lord is saying. He whispers to us for a reason. He wants us to listen "intently" for His guidance. Find That quiet time and earmark it daily so that good quality time is spent in a good relationship with the Lord. Remember shhhhh. Just be quite for a moment - rest, meditate, and pray. You will be amazed at how it revives the soul.

GOD bless everyone.

epVirtual Assistant's Holiday Schedule

2008-12-08T13:54:00.000-08:00

Christmas is fast approaching. epVirtual Assistants will be on Holiday on the following dates:

December 21st - Christmas Party
December 24th - Christmas Eve
December 25th - Christmas Day
December 31st - New Year's Eve
January 1 - New Year

If you have special requests or projects for the holiday season, please send them all ahead of time so we can schedule or finish it before the holidays.

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epVirtual Assistants team would also like to greet
Kristelle del Rosario
a very happy birthday!

We need to be in Church

2008-12-07T08:28:00.000-08:00

Psalm 95:6 "Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker."

If God is truly our God, as we proclaim, then worship should be a vital part of our lives. As His people and His children, we should always be ready to bow before Him and exalt His name. And one of the best places to do this is in His house with His people.

If we are not actively involved in fellowship and worship at church, our spiritual life tends to die. We grow cold. One week without going in church to praise and worship God feels us weak, if truly we are Christians in heart and in mind.

"Skipping church could be the beginning of spiritual decline."

I am blessed with my 3 years old son, he's always with me every time i go to church to attend worship and other church activities, he's also participating.

GOD bless everyone.

Virtual Assistant Tips

2008-12-03T19:41:00.000-08:00

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Virtual Assistant or a “VA” specializes in providing the ongoing administrative support by working with clients in continuous and collaborative relationship. Virtual assistant operate remotely from their own offices and utilized today’s technology to deliver to their clients. The virtual assistants also offer additional and separate specialties that fall under the creative and technical services.

As virtual assistant we always perform different task for our clients. We do everything to help our clients to provide great customer service . We consider our clients business as ours.

Here are the 5 Tips To Become A virtual Assistant

Target A Market if you have plan to become a virtual assistant we should first to look a target in this market. We should think that everyone will be our target. We should first look for a much smaller target because this will help us to create a much better marketing. With the skills that we have known we can get a better marketing, we can also get clients faster, and we will succeed this kind of business.

Have A Professional Website having a professional website is very important. Client will see the services that you are offering, and it will serve as your professional image. We should only make sure that the website should have a professional look that will create impression to your target clients.

Explaining What To Do we cannot deny the fact that not everyone know what a virtual assistant really is. We should only explain what it is and what are the services that you are providing as a virtual assistants.

Make Your Website Get Traffic we should make a traffic in our website so that we will be known online. One way to get more traffic will be in the article submission. All you have to do is to promote your expertise and your virtual assistant business. When you already submit article there would be a resource box that will help you be known in the online marketing.

Make A Blog Blogs are great marketing tools. Plus this is also a way for you to showcase your writing skills. My first task in this business is blogging our clients. A business blog is another tool that makes attraction to your prospect clients.

Try to use these 5 tips to your virtual assistance journey. Internet is the best place in promoting your business and in finding clients. Always use techniques in promoting your virtual assistant business.

Updates and News from epVirtual Assistants

2008-12-01T08:10:00.000-08:00

Its the first day of December. You can now feel the breeze of Christmas.

Here's a recap of what happened in November:

* We've moved to a new office! Bigger space and better location.

* New Web Design at our epVirtual Assistants website .

* Congratulations to Melrose Fulgencio for being November's VA of the month! We are proud of you Melrose! Keep up the good work.

What's Coming This December?

"AN HOUR FOR FRANK"
epVirtual Assistants launches our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Event this December and we are encouraging our clients to partcipate.

Last June 21st, Aklan was hit by a strong Typhoon Frank, leaving hundreds of people homeless. This Christmas our team is donating one hour of our paycheck to 7 families who were victims of the typhoon.

We are encouraging our clients to participate as well. You can buy additional one hour worth of services and we will work for you. Proceeds will be used to buy grocery items for the 7 families. Gift giving will be done of New Year's Eve - December 31st, 2008. Watch out for the pics!

CHRISTMAS LUAU PARTY

epVirtual Assistants will party all-night this coming December 2oth together with Gamma Brotherhood - an non-government organization in New Washington Aklan.

Wear your best hawaiian costumes and be ready to party all night long!

Universal Verse

2008-11-30T07:18:00.000-08:00

We know all this verse. It tells the One who loved us with an everlasting love. He suffered and died just for us.

This verse found in the book of John 3:16.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believed in Him should not perish but have everlasting life".

Welcome to our Blog

2008-11-26T18:56:00.000-08:00

Hello Guys,

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