Have you noticed the prices for checking luggage has been steadily increasing?  The standard charge for one piece of luggage on the main airlines are: AirTran $20.00 American Airlines $25.00 Continental Airlines $23.00 (online) $ 25.00 (airport) Delta Airlines $23.00 (online) $ 25.00 (airport) While you pay a premium for your luggage to ride on the [...]

This is part 2 of a 2 part series on Virtual Assistants.  Read below about my experience as EventEssentials’ VA and how this opportunity started! Enjoy it and stay tuned for more tips on incorporating VA’s into your business. The profession is growing in centralized economies, there are many as Virtual Assistants worldwide and I’m [...]

Hello!!! I’m Caroline Rezende from Brazil and EventEssentials’ Virtual Assistant. I was invited by Q to write about Virtual Assistantance and my experience with EventEssentials. My article will be in posted in 2 parts, hope you enjoy it!! From a basic description from Wikipedia, Virtual Assistant (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) [...]

In my never ending quest for productivity, I have been reading Timothy Ferriss’, “The Four Hour Work Week.” Early on Ferriss encourages the use of Virtual Assistants (VA’s) to increase productivity. We could not get through an event or even the day without our Virtual Assistant, Caroline. I haven’t seen our VA face to face [...]

All Event Planners need to know about this!! You may have heard about the scam going around, where someone calls an Event Planner/Producer and pretends that they are from MTV’s Sweet Sixteen show and they want to hire you to produce P Diddy’s niece’s,  Sweet 16 Birthday in a few weeks.  Well, read all about it [...]

As an Advisory Board member for Plan Your Meetings, I wanted to recommend their free educational and social programs that I have so enjoyed to you. As a board member I have been tasked with sharing this valuable information with others such as you to join. It’s FREE and we all like FREE! Plan Your Meetings (PYM) [...]