Frances Palaschuk's Blog (6)

Hey all, it's been a while! I am still alive & well. I wanted to share this amazing free offer from the Internet Marketing Sweetie... I love it and will use it often! Have a nice weekend! Continue

I was a member of the IAAP for 8 years while I was in the corporate world and let me tell you what a great network of admin professionals here in Ottawa. I left the group back in 2005 when I was going on Maternity leave. I had been a member for 8 long years and participated in many workshops, events, training, and annual Admin Professionals conference. It was really great becasue my employer paid for it :) They paid the annual membership, t… Continue

I seem to be making progress with my to do list this week. As I mentioned earlier I have a lot on my plate. Here are the items I was able to cross of so far: - A new blog design - 3 Blog upgrades to WordPress 2.5 - Virtual Assistant "Internet Marketing" training course - Submitting an Author's blog site to a huge list of directories - Posting at least 2 new articles to my business blog - Setting up an autoresponder system for a new client - Keyword research for a lo… Continue

Well, another benefit of working at home as a virtual assistant... Today, my husband was watching my daughter but I snuck in a break for lunch.. My daughter is only 26 months old and already counts to ten... It was so cute to see her hiding against the wall counting to 10. I decided to teach her to play hide and seek. She thought this was the greatest except everytime I told her to hide and that Mommy will find her she kept running out saying, "here I am Mommy." Who else gets to share a mid d… Continue

Wow, I took the whole weekend off. Well, mostly ~ aside from keeping up with my social networking and taking some new Internet Marketing virtual assistant training courses I had a really low key weekend. This is not common for me and won't happen again for a long time :) Balancing my work life with my 2 year old daughters' schedule does not leave a lot of room for down time. I resigned from my long time, full time position in the corporate world to be able to stay at home with my daughter. N… Continue

I always find myself networking at night. With so many social media channels available it's hard to choose the right ones and find the time to keep your profile fresh. Depending on my mood, and what I wish to talk about and share I visit different groups. Tonight, I received an evite from Ruth to join this group and the email caught me at just the right time so I seized the opportunity and am happy I did - thanks Ruth :) Last evening, I received the press release from Darrell in my Google Re… Continue