I was alerted this morning to the fact that Twitter was featured in an article by http://WallStreetJournal.com by Twitter @BloggersBlog. It’s great to see that many more media sources are finally realizing the power of Twitter.

Find out more: Twitter Goes Mainstream – WSJ.com.

As a business owner and entrepreneur, I realized that I couldn’t grow my business successfully if I didn’t have a solid support team. So I purposefully sought out Virtual Assistants (VAs) that I felt would not only be beneficial to my business but I would also be able to help them grow their business.

Recently, I was featured in an editorial column on Entrepreneur.com by Patti Simone regarding “Virtual Help for Real Entrepreneurs” about this very topic. The purpose of this article was to share how entrepreneurs were using VAs to grow their business.

If you are an entrepreneur and have yet to start working with a VA then I would highly suggest that you hire one. For more details about hiring a VA, please check out my post on this website entitled, “Business Makeover: Hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA)“.

I would love to hear about your experience in working with a VA (good or bad) because I believe that we can all learn from each other.

Have you loved on your blog today by spending time with it? What I mean by this is have you added a new post to it so that it will know that you still love it? I’m declaring it “Love Your Blog” Day and encouraging all bloggers to love on their blog today.

If you have already loved on your blog then I applaud you and encourage you to do this everyday. I wained a little bit in showing love to my blog but now I’m back and looking forward to spending time sharing my knowledge via my blog.

Some of the ways that I’m loving on my blog:

• Updating plugins
• Updating WordPress installation
• Adding plugins that make it run better
• Adding content that encourages others to read it’s feed
• Sharing links to it
• Applying SEO techniques
• And finally, updating the look of it

What are some ways that you love on your blog?

Recently I experienced unplanned downtime due to Internet outage which affected my ability to do business, receive/send email or even communicate via my social media outlets. I faced reality that I didn’t have a backup plan in case something like this happened. I didn’t have emergency procedures in place so that I wouldn’t have to go without Internet access.

So my first plan of action while I was down was to create an emergency backup plan in case this happened again. I began by looking for alternative solutions that I could have in place just in case my access was limited again. Below is a list of what I determined:

• Locate alternative external sources where I could gain access to the Internet freely (i.e., library or food establishments  with Internet access)
• Obtain information from cell phone company on how I can use my cell phone with my computer to access the Internet
• The old tried and true method, have emergency dial-up access numbers just in case neither of the above worked

Having this plan in place will definitely be beneficial if I have Internet access problems again. Do you have an emergency plan in place just in case you loose your main source of access to the Internet? Please share your ideas on what you have included in your emergency plan.