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    Why I Will Be a Starbucks Customer for Life!

    Why I Will Be a Starbucks Customer for Life!

    Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 3mins
    Meet my youngest son, Charles (or Charlie Boy as he is more affectionately known!).  This is Charlie at our local Starbucks branch in Ayala Center, Cebu.
    We popped in together when his Mummy was doing some serious show shopping, and Daddy had gotten tired of the question “What do you [...]

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HOT! Download My NEW Telesales, Telemarketing & Cold Calling Tips eBook!

HOT! Download My NEW Telesales, Telemarketing & Cold Calling Tips eBook!

Over at my other business blog, Telesales Magic, which focuses on telesales tips, telemarketing tips and cold calling tips, I recently sat down and put together a few things on the subject of using voicemail and email to help the telesales efforts that so many sales pro’s put forth every day. At first it was [...]

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Video: Sometimes a Little Extra Effort is Required – My 13 Hour Work Day!

Video: Sometimes a Little Extra Effort is Required – My 13 Hour Work Day!

Location: Balcony at Home! – Reading & Viewing Time: 3mins
Hi everyone. Yesterday I worked a 13 hour day… Sometimes these things happen. And yesterday was one of those days that, when you put in the extra effort and things happen that are great, it all makes it all the more worthwhile.
A client of mine that [...]

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Video: Happy New Year (Coming Soon: A very BIG Announcement!)

Video: Happy New Year (Coming Soon: A very BIG Announcement!)

Location: Live2Sell HQ – Reading / Viewing Time: 3mins
First of all, a very Happy New Year to each and every one of you.
What a year 2009 was. Very fast moving, lots of travel, tons of business growth and I got to relaunch my blog to what seems like a brand new type of audience, with [...]

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3 Quick Tips to Get You to Start Building Your Very Own Online Brand

3 Quick Tips to Get You to Start Building Your Very Own Online Brand

Location: Hilton Resort & Spa, Cebu – Reading Time: 9mins
It’s amazing to see how the web is constantly changing the world. Nowadays it is imperative for you to own your own slice of the internet. Thankfully, you can make your online presence felt in a flash and let your brand be known to the world. [...]

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Top 10 Tips for the Traveling Entrepreneur!

Top 10 Tips for the Traveling Entrepreneur!

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 6mins
For the entrepreneur, whether or not he is currently involved in some kind of an outsourcing lifestyle, traveling for both business and pleasure can be combined if you only do your homework well. A lot of snags, inconveniences and complications can arise while you’re on a trip so you [...]

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The Virtual Business Lifestyle Netbook Top 4: How to be Mobile and Productive!

The Virtual Business Lifestyle Netbook Top 4: How to be Mobile and Productive!

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 7mins
As an entrepreneur that is proud to say he is working less and less inside the office and more and more pretty much anywhere I like, the importance of technology has really struck me over the last year, but more so, of mobile technology – allowing that Virtual Business [...]

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My Latest FREE eBook: Saving the Day, the Virtual Way!

My Latest FREE eBook: Saving the Day, the Virtual Way!

Location: Starbucks, Cebu – Reading Time: Post – 3mins, eBook – 25mins
Get it whilst its still hot!
Visit my www.virtualbusinesslifestyle.com site for more details and download details!

1. Once Upon a Time in the Life of an Entrepreneur
2. Meet Your New Superhero – The Virtual Assistant
3. The Benefits of Working with a Full Time Virtual Assistant
4. [...]

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5 Top Tips to Building Your Entrepreneurial Network on LinkedIn

5 Top Tips to Building Your Entrepreneurial Network on LinkedIn

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 5mins
If you’re wanting to embrace the Virtual Business Lifestyle then you are a busy, probably over-worked business owner that is consistently looking for new business opportunities and partners, or clients. Although this blog features around building that lifestyle, and outsourcing as a basis to gain it, I recently did [...]

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How to Work Effectively with Your Outsourced Offshore Virtual Assistant

How to Work Effectively with Your Outsourced Offshore Virtual Assistant

Location: Manila Airport, Philippines – Reading Time: 8mins
The following post is a sneak peek at a chapter from my upcoming FREE eBook “Saving the Day, the Virtual Way: How Working with a Full Time Virtual Assistant will Save You Time, Make You More Productive and Boost Your Success in Life and Business!” which will be [...]

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Video: My Virtual Business Lifestyle (From Bangkok) – How I Personally Work With My PA When Traveling

Video: My Virtual Business Lifestyle (From Bangkok) – How I Personally Work With My PA When Traveling

Location: Bangkok, Thailand – Reading & Viewing Time: 3mins
Direct from Bangkok, Thailand, here is a quick post from the roof garden of the Amari Watergate Hotel, deep in the heart of the city, where I am spending a one week vacation with my wife (our third international break in the last 8 months). I thought [...]

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Entrepreneurial Myth: Being Able to Multitask Helps You Get More Done!

Entrepreneurial Myth: Being Able to Multitask Helps You Get More Done!

Location: Live2Sell HQ – Reading Time: 7mins
As kids, we grow up with stories about Santa Claus, the Boogeyman, and the Tooth Fairy.  A few years later, our bubbles burst when we realized that those stories are nothing but mere stories, myths, concocted for whatever purpose adults had in mind. Now several years later, as adults, [...]

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Video: Virtual Assistant Service Believer Speaks Out!

Video: Virtual Assistant Service Believer Speaks Out!

Location: Atlanta, GA – Reading & Viewing Time: 8mins
On a recent trip to the US, I had the chance to meet up with a fairly new client of ours, Frank Bishop, who has been working with us for around a year, but on his Virtual Assistant set-up for just under 8 months.
Trey (as he prefers [...]

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Bruce Lee’s Business Lessons – A Collection of Biz Tips from the Little Dragon Himself!

Bruce Lee’s Business Lessons – A Collection of Biz Tips from the Little Dragon Himself!

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 7mins
The name Bruce Lee is known in virtually every household in the world. He never employed a virtual assistant, however, as the man who single-handedly brought martial arts to mainstream culture in the 70’s and beyond, the San Francisco born martial artist was known more for his lightening-fast kicks [...]

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Video: My Virtual Business Lifestyle Sunrise in Cebu, Philippines

Video: My Virtual Business Lifestyle Sunrise in Cebu, Philippines

Location: Home Office – Reading & Viewing Time: 2mins
I wanted to publish this quick post to share what I woke up to yesterday – and in fact what I wake up to most days when I’m home and not traveling. This is the sunrise from the balcony that leads off the bedroom at my house in Cebu, [...]

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Outsource Outbound Telemarketing to Increase Sales and Save You Time!

Outsource Outbound Telemarketing to Increase Sales and Save You Time!

Location: Shangri-la Beach Resort, Cebu – Reading Time: 7mins
As a small business owner or entrepreneur, you want to bring on board new clients whenever possible and ultimately make more money. Join the club! Regardless of what product or service you’re selling, either getting in front of prospects, or having them willing to speak to you [...]

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How to Beat Entrepreneurial Burnout to Become More Productive

How to Beat Entrepreneurial Burnout to Become More Productive

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 6mins
You must have gone through that stage in your life where you felt totally drained and exhausted. You’re almost there at the top. Your mind tells you to keep on going but your body is too weak. You are physically and emotionally drained. You are absolutely knackered and you [...]

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Outsourcing Lifestyle 101 – Are you Ready to Ditch Your Email, Like Leo?

Outsourcing Lifestyle 101 – Are you Ready to Ditch Your Email, Like Leo?

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 8mins
As a once-self-confessed email junkie myself, like most entrepreneurs looking for that Virtual Business Lifestyle, I truly enjoyed this post from www.zenhabits.net on how its creator, Leo Babauta, dropped his Inbox and came up with a new way to control incoming messages to streamline his life a little more [...]

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Twitter and the Entrepreneur

Twitter and the Entrepreneur

Location: Live2Sell HQ – Reading Time: 4mins
Enough has been written about the ‘importance’ of being available via online social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, so I’m not going to get too involved in giving you guys the run-down as to what they are and how they work, etc. However, I do [...]