by SMac | Sep 18, 2012 | Efficiency, For VA's, Product Reviews, Superhero Diary, Tips & Tricks
Preview is a program that comes with Macs and unless you have some other fancy-dancy pdf program installed, this is what is used when you open a pdf. But I’ve just discovered that there are all sorts of things you can do with Preview: Add a signature and...
by SMac | Jul 24, 2012 | Efficiency, For VA's, Product Reviews, Superhero Diary
I use Freshbooks and it’s super awesome for keeping track of your time and creating invoices. And, you can also set up automatic billing. Sweet! There are two ways to do this: if you want to simply automatically send invoices to clients and have them make...
by SMac | Jul 3, 2012 | Efficiency, For VA's, Superhero Diary, Tips & Tricks
Have you ever come across a program that you use where you need to send notification emails to both you and your assistant, but the system only allows you to enter one email address? How annoying! But a super quick and simple fix is to simply create a new email...
by SMac | Jun 26, 2012 | Efficiency, For VA's, Product Reviews, Superhero Diary, Tips & Tricks
An excellent and free (always great!) plugin for WordPress that does backups is BackWPup. Someone recently told me about this one and it backs up everything! It even has loads of different options for where you want to store or send your backup files, it’s...
by SMac | Jun 19, 2012 | Efficiency, For VA's, Superhero Diary, Tips & Tricks
**UPDATE – Nowadays this plugin is no longer safe and from what I understand it’s been removed from the WordPress plugin directory as a precaution. Apparently it posed a security risk, so I wouldn’t suggest that you use it anymore.** There is a quick...
by SMac | May 29, 2012 | Efficiency, For VA's, Superhero Diary, Tips & Tricks
GoToMeeting is awesome for sharing your desktop and can also create video recordings of your screen sharing, however the video files that are created are often quite large which makes it difficult to distribute to those who may want to see it again. But, there is...