Posted by admin on Feb 10, 2010 in
work Read on best acne cleanser reviews. My friend who’s suffering from a bad case of acne needs my researching skills as she’s already given up finding a solution to her skin condition.
Reply to all design request quotes I’ve received for the last two weeks. I’ve totally ignored them because I was so busy working on this big project. Thanks to my husband’s reminder, I now need to send a total of 18 emails apologizing and referring them to other designers.
Buy a back up service and upload all my recent projects there.
Start writing tutorials for the CMS I’ve been working on. I need to schedule a hands-on training as well to the website owners.
FInish all my deliverables before I enjoy the weekend.
Posted by admin on Jan 3, 2010 in
work Not much in the way of design work currently, just a few minor updates here and there and I’ll be done for the day. Well, after I do a small thing for the MIL: there’s a chance she might go to Canada with some friends of hers this year and she’s asked me to try and find some Toronto hotels they can put on their shortlist.
Posted by admin on Dec 23, 2009 in
online life,
work,
working at home I’m so glad that I don’t have to find a job even when the company I was working for last March decided to close shop. With so many projects coming in now that I’m a freelancer, my schedule is as busy as when I’m working full time. I like to thank my loyal clients who not only give me projects almost every month but never fails to recommend me to their friends and colleagues. I could say that most of my projects now are through word of mouth. I don’t even advertise and yet I receive plenty of requests which makes me feel so blessed. It helps that I have finally updated my portfolio site so I also receive a few offers from that as well. The best of all, I manage my own time and don’t need to answer to anyone’s rules.
Posted by admin on Nov 19, 2009 in
work My husband had a job offer as a business plan writer. The salary was good but not so much the benefits. At his current job, his health package includes me and our daughter so even if I don’t have a full time work, I can still benefit from their health plan. These kind of benefits are hard to ignore especially if you’re a family man. I guess if he’s offered three times his salary, he may be able to change his mind. But for now, we’re happy with what we have plus my freelance earnings are not so bad that we can still afford to live comfortably.
Posted by admin on Nov 2, 2009 in
online life,
work Submit all my blogs and my portfolio site to free directories.
Wrap up all my October deliverables.
Send email to clients who haven’t sent their payments yet.
Contact other web designers so I can pass off extra work to them.
Learn a new application that I need to dress up. Creating themes for all kinds of built-in software is my current most popular service.
Learn more SEO tricks to boost my portfolio website’s ranking and visibility.
Posted by admin on Oct 18, 2009 in
health,
work There are plenty of jobs in healthcare. This is one area when you’ll never run out of opportunities. Which is why before I graduated in High School, everyone around me kept telling me to get a career in the health industry. It’s just not for me though, but my friends who did are now doing well in their careers, stability and money-wise. My brother-in-law was going to enroll in Nursing as a matter of fact but when I asked him if it’s really what he wanted to do, he said he’s just following what others are doing.
Thinking about it now though, I would’ve gone for Medicine just so I would know what to do whenever my daughter is sick.
Posted by admin on Sep 17, 2009 in
web design,
work I really need to get some seo services for my client. I can’t outsource it too my old colleagues anymore as they are all very busy with their full time jobs. I’ve posted the job on some forums but most of the applicants are either just learning the ropes or fresh out of college (totally have no experience and just trying their luck). Aside from SEO, I need to find myself an extra web designer so I can pass off some of the work that I couldn’t accept anymore. I don’t want to refuse the offers because most of them badly need help. The best thing I can do is talk to one or two of my colleagues and see what kind of setup we can work with.
Posted by admin on Aug 8, 2009 in
home,
work I’m really having trouble juggling offline work from my online tasks. But I’ve found a way to mix both depending on which client I’m dealing with. Just this morning, my client talked about his Pleasanton motorcycle accident attorney during our meeting and it was all I can do not to snooze. I should be cleaning up closet for another garage sale but he insisted on having a meeting where he got sidetracked discussing with his partner about motorcycles. Not wanting to disturb them, I put the mike on mute and turned the speaker on while I continue cleaning up the mess in our room.
Posted by admin on Aug 7, 2009 in
work Review the health insurance lead that I got. One of my tasks as a part time Virtual Assistant is to research about benefits such as this.
Setup two Wordpress blogs and customize the theme for the 2nd blog.
Create new hosting account for a client and setup 20 email inboxes.
Schedule a meeting room at Philam Towers for October.
Continue with the bidding wars for design and article writing.
Interview applicants for the SEO Specialist position.
Posted by admin on Jun 2, 2009 in
technology,
web design,
work I am loving twitter. In the past five days, I’ve learned so many things that I’m dying to try out on my new projects. It’s a huge world out there and I was a fool for not following as many people as I can for the past year. I’m still keeping my main twitter account private so I can discuss things there that are strictly for friends only. As for my public account, feel free to follow me at joytreyes.
Here’s one example of why I am loving twitter. A great tutorial for a web design layout created in Photoshop. Check it out, you could learn a thing or two and might be confident enough to start with your own website.
