Today, I have a tale to tell you about changing domain names in the hopes that you can learn from my mistakes and avoid the knots I got on my forehead.
Once upon a time, I thought I wanted to be a Virtual Assistant. So I decided to create a website, and of course, the first thing I needed was a domain name. I had decided the name of my fledgling business would be vAssistant Services (don’t you just love the creativity? LOL), but at that time, that domain …

You keep hearing about the power of social networking…how it can help you get your message out, get you new clients and JV partners, build stronger relationships with your audience and increase your income. But…and it’s a BIG BUT…who’s got time to keep track of all those sites and IDs and profiles and friends and…oh geez…nevermind.
Well, procrastinate no more, my friend – here are some tips to make social networking work for you:
1. Choose 1-3 social networking sites to use. There are dozens of social networking sites available, and …

When you’re building or improving your website or blog, one of the first considerations you have is what pages should your site have? It would be nice if there was a pat answer that fit everyone, but that’s not the case, and you find that out fairly early in the process.
What if you asked the question a different way – one that gets at what you’re really asking – which is, “What is the minimum set of pages my site should have?” The answer is probably a shorter …

You work hard on your content, and it’s really disheartening to see that someone else has stolen it and published it on their site. But, what can you do about it?
These lazy bloggers who steal content from other sites are called scrapers, and they most commonly get your content through your RSS feed and put it on SPAM blogs (called ’splogs’), usually in the hopes of earning income through AdSense installed on the splog.
So, what should you do? Can you stop them?
Most ’splogs’ don’t have contact information on them, …

You’re putting together a new website and everything is in place except for one thing: your picture. You begin to question whether you actually have to have a picture at all, particularly since you never seem to get around to getting the appointment made at the photography studio. You go back and forth with yourself about whether you need a professional portrait made, or whether a snap with the digital camera would do. Meanwhile, as the battle rages on in your mind, you still don’t have a picture on your …