I haven’t abandoned my blog, I’ve just been busy focusing on my business growth strategies for the New Year.

As I mentioned in an earlier post. I’m now working with a business coach and boy is she great! Here’s a list of what I’m working on this month.

• Designing my new blogsite. Yep, I’m changing the name of my Virtual Assistance Business from Yolie’s Place to something more expressive of what I actually do.
• Working on my Newsletter content and getting everything loaded into Aweber. The newsletter will start with the launch of my new site.

I started my business by accident. I was working in the suburbs, living in the city, and sick of the commute. After a particularly
long four hour commute because of a snow storm, I gave three weeks notice the next day.

My boss asked me to stay until she found someone. I agreed and started my job search (I gave notice before I had a job, I was just fed up).

To make a long story short, she hadn’t found anyone after three weeks and I’d already secured another position. She asked me If I could work weekends to help out until she found someone. I agreed and traveled to my old job every weekend for an additional three weeks.

What are your favorite WordPress plugins? Here’s a list of mine.

Akismet-prevents comment spam

All in One SEO Pack-SEO for blogs

Better Comments Manager-Allows you to respond to comments from the admin panel

Buy Me A Beer-Allows you visitors to buy you a beer or coffee thru PayPal

Comment Relish-Sends a short thank you to users when they first comment on your blog

Google XML Sitemap-Will generate a sitemap of your blog for Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask

My Page Order-Lets you determine the order of your blog pages