My brain is in overdrive this morning. My apologies in advance.
1. I got an IM from someone on MSN messenger asking me if I was hiring any writers. I told her I wasn’t, and she said to let me know when I was. Umm okay. The thing is, we do business with people we have a relationship with. I have no idea who this person is. I haven’t seen her website, I don’t know her from a professional group, I’ve seen no writing samples, and I don’t know what type of writing she does. People need to network effectively…that’s how you have a chance to get overflow work. If you need to brush up on your networking skills, let me suggest Entrepreneurial Freedom for starters.
2. I have a new client who is an actor/screenwriter. Now, I know other VAs are working in this niche, but I really didn’t think too much about it until I got this client. Another interesting note is that this new client was a referral from his brother, a former client of mine working in the financial services industry. You just never know who knows whom. I still keep in touch with the former client. He knows that I focus on editorial services now, and voila.
3. I posted some new pictures on Myspace. If you’d like to see pictures of my kids dressed up for Halloween and my exquisite pumpkin-carving skills, click here.
4. There was an article in yesterday’s Harrisburg Patriot about MySpace becoming “Our Space” and they profiled local people who had gotten in trouble for some of the private information they posted on their public myspace account. Folks, if you wouldn’t shout out the message on your blog post into a crowd, don’t post it online. Your blog, your myspace account, etc., is not a private diary with a lock and key. It is public information. I try to keep the Hidden Blog mostly business related, where I may talk about my kids, vacations, shopping bargains, etc. on my myspace account. But I never post anything that would embarrass me tomorrow, 5 years from now, or 50 years from now.
Have a great week!
Candy Beauchamp said,
November 16, 2006 @ 5:47 pmSo, like I can write and stuff… wanna hire me? *laugh*
A client of mine were just talking about how you know you’ve arrived when you get a steady stream of people looking to work for you that you’ve never heard of — or better yet, letters from a prison inmate!