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		<title>How brave am I?</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2010/07/02/how-brave-am-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, at an IVAA conference, Beth Quick Andrews gave a talk that she opened with &#8220;What would you do if you were brave?&#8221;. It was a powerful question for me at the time. I chewed my lip a bit and wrote down &#8220;Grow OffAssist beyond just myself.&#8221; It had been something I was considering, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Makin&#8217; It Right&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2010/05/01/makin-it-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today (a Saturday) my husband had a bunch of stuff to catch up on, so I took the kids and went to the grocery store and then to Target to spend their allowance. They were terrible at the grocery store and to make a long story short, I ended up telling them in the car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hired someone recently?</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2010/04/30/hired-someone-recently/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have hired someone recently, you could be eligible for a tax credit as well as not having to pay the employer&#8217;s portion of the social security tax&#8230; first, this is just my own understanding, you should check with your tax adviser of course.
If you hired them after Feb 3, 2010 and before January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The keys to the kingdom&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2010/04/12/the-keys-to-the-kingdom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.offassist.com/2010/04/12/the-keys-to-the-kingdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a long-time client on the phone earlier today who is shifting things and wants me to start printing checks for him. It&#8217;s a fairly easy thing to do. About half my clients still use checks on a regular basis. For them, it&#8217;s fairly easy, we just set up their check for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A simple little takeaway from the Statesman</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2010/03/18/a-simple-little-takeaway-from-the-statesman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of our local newspaper here in Austin, The Austin American Statesman. However, I couldn&#8217;t tell you the last time I actually touched a newspaper. I&#8217;m skeeved out by newsprint. It comes off on your fingers and smudges and well, I&#8217;m a diva deep down, I suppose. Aside from that, I prefer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phooey on social media privacy</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2010/03/04/phooey-on-social-media-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with most of what I read these days, someone (Denise over at Aday VA actually) posted (tweeted) a link to this article &#8220;Social Media Privacy? Get Over It.&#8221;
It&#8217;s interesting and a conversation I&#8217;ve had over and over with colleagues and friends. How much is too much information? I&#8217;m pretty open, I don&#8217;t lock or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Austin Leading in Economic Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2010/02/25/austin-leading-in-economic-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.offassist.com/2010/02/25/austin-leading-in-economic-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love all of my clients, but this is my 12th year living here in Austin (yes, I realize I never get to be &#8220;from&#8221; here, always a transplant) and I&#8217;ve come to absolutely love this town, the people, the businesses&#8230; just everything.
Oh, I never would have believed I&#8217;d become one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking: bibles and bumper stickers need not apply</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2009/11/13/networking-bibles-and-bumper-stickers-need-not-apply/</link>
		<comments>http://www.offassist.com/2009/11/13/networking-bibles-and-bumper-stickers-need-not-apply/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning: Sarcasm ahead  
I had 2 networking groups yesterday with two very different experiences. The first was &#8220;great&#8221; group that a client has asked me several times to go to. It was not too far from me (about 30 minutes I figured) and she endorsed how wonderful it was. Good enough for me &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5th Anniversary&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2009/08/13/5th-anniversary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.offassist.com/2009/08/13/5th-anniversary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July 2004, Lana Newlander of Virtual Business Solutions and I held our first virtual assistant meeting in Austin. The story is kind of funny actually&#8230;
She posted to the listserv at IVAA that she was kind of new and had someone contact her wanting bookkeeping services and needed a contract. I replied and said I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vendor-Client Relationship In Real World Terms</title>
		<link>http://www.offassist.com/2009/05/31/vendor-client-relationship-in-real-world-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.offassist.com/2009/05/31/vendor-client-relationship-in-real-world-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 10:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Nina Feldman for showing this to me. This is awesome. I should make all new prospects watch it  
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY]
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