How To Use Online Project Management Tools Effectively

At the core of effective online project management tools is: Who, What and When. Who is going to compete the task, what the task actually entails, and when it is going to be completed? If you keep these three things in mind when you set up and manage the project, you won’t go far wrong.

Choose the person who is the most qualified to complete the task, spell out exactly what they are going to do and how they’re going to do it and have a set date by which the entire project must be completed. You then need to communicate this to your staff and delegate the project with measurable deliverables.

It is very unsatisfactory to say to someone to ‘get most of this back to me as soon as possible.’ This does not create any feeling of urgency in the mind of your employee. If you want them to go to your project management dashboard and post on your blog, tell them how many posts they need to get done by which day. ‘I need you to make three posts by Wednesday,’ for

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Virtual Personal Assistants – Smart Ways To Encourage Productivity

Getting smart with the way you set up the pay structure for your virtual personal assistants can go a long way to driving performance and productivity and can get your remote workforce into the right habits from the outset.

It is crucial that you sell the idea of a probationary period to your virtual assistant in a positive way. Explain to her that she is going to have a lot of training from you during that time, which is why you are starting her out at a slightly lower rate. Once she has successfully completed this probationary period, her hourly rate will increase.

Tell her that being on probation can have benefits in terms of virtual assistant rates for both you, the employer and for her, the employee. It is a chance for each of you to become accustomed to the way the other works. If for any reason she is not enjoying her work, she can walk away with her head high. Similarly, if she does not fulfill the expectations you have of her, you can cut your ties with her and

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How To Get A Reliable Virtual Assistant Online

Choose the best VA to help your business grow.

There is a growing tendency among Australian companies to outsource much of their work, be it online design, content and article writing or general office and sales work. When this is the case, and the majority, or at least part of your team is virtual, you need to be sure you have hired virtual assistant online who you can trust and who are up to the task.

It is simply a waste of everybody’s time if you invest resources and training into someone, only to find that some months, or even weeks down the track, they are not delivering. Better to hire very slowly and make completely sure that you are happy with them and the way they work, and that they are happy and capable of working with you.

This applies equally to the team in your office, but it is that much harder to keep track of your best virtual assistant who is working for you thousands and thousands of

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Top Business Communication Tools For Virtual Assistants

It can be difficult at times to explain exactly what you require of your virtual team. You can’t hastily call an emergency meeting in your office if things suddenly go wrong. You need to find ways to be able to make your intentions very clear using business communication tools so they know exactly the outcome you are wanting them to work towards.

A handy little tool which can help you enormously to get your point across is the Livescribe Smart Pen. This is no bigger than a large pen, costs around d $200 and will last many hours. It was originally designed as an aid for college students in the US. It has a small microphone, recorder and micro-computer built into it and will record everything that is being said at the time you are making particular notes.

So if you are in a lecture about physics, you will be taking notes as the lecturer speaks. Afterwards, as you are revising your notes, you may have a query about what the lecturer meant as he was talking about quantum

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This Week In Videos

Get ready to view this week’s viral video mixed bag.

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Effective Strategies In Training Your New Virtual Office Assistants

Once you have found A players to join your team, having carefully selected her through a well written job ad, a questionnaire, a resume, a simple task and then finally an in depth interview, it is important to get these virtual office assistants quickly and efficiently trained up so they can take their place as a fully functioning and contributing employee.

One of the best ways of teaching a virtual worker can be by using a work wiki. A good example of this is EditMe which you can start at $5 a month and work up to the professional level of $30 a month. This tool allows you to run a password protected work wiki that can be constantly updated and can carry a whole wealth of training material professionally organized and laid out for your new staff member to access. Certain levels can be set, so the new employee for example, won’t be able to see how to do refunds until they have reached a certain level of training and have gained authorization.

At the end of each wiki area

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Easy Small Business Marketing Tools To Use Today

Are you doing everything possible with good, smart common-sense SEO to make sure your site is on the first page of Google? Are you aiming to be the best marketed business in your local area? There are two fun small business marketing tools to help you which you might like to take a look at.

To complement your serious SEO efforts, it is great to try something a little left-field to increase your visibility and give your business an exciting and entertaining edge. There is a site called www.Fiver.com which provides you with some novel ways to advertise your business. For a mere five dollars, people will do many interesting, even wacky things which can help to make your business more visible. Simply go to the website and see what is being offered. Someone will, for only $5, write an amusing short song which speaks of the benefits of doing business with you. Someone else will write small business marketing ideas that they love your business in the sand. Or they will write the

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