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Can’t believe it - just a week ago I was doing a teleseminar for a US Virtual Assistant audience about using LinkedIn as a tool for your business. 30 mins after that I received an email from a conference organiser asking me to speak at a conference in Canada June 2009 - I accepted.

Our (my husband and I) trip is now booked and we paid our deposit yesterday to the travel agent - one whole week has passed and it’s all been planned!  We’re flying to Toronto and then will travel to Niagara to stay for the duration of the FoVA conference. Then we fly to Victoria and join a tour over there, run by an Aussie company to visit Vancouver, Whistler, Jasper, Lake Louise, Banff and then back to Vancouver to get on a cruise ship to go up to Glacier Bay and back before flying back home towards the end of the month.  And a long-time friend via email and phone, who lives in Vancouver has invited Graham and I to come stay with her and her husband for a night as well.

What a wonderful thing to happen in such a short space of time. It was only 3-4 weeks ago that Graham and I went to a presentation given by our local travel agent (who doesn’t have a website - will have to talk to them about that!) about a tour and cruise in Canada and we thought we might do that in 2010 - we didn’t think 2009 would be possible till I got the request to speak at a conference!

What a difference a week makes!

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I had the wonderful privilege of speaking today on We Love Girl Talk which is a Christian Women’s Radio Show. Sandra and Sarah, the show’s hosts were wonderful and made me feel totally at home! They are trying to build up their ratings for the show as the BlogTalkRadio features shows on their front page so why not pop by and give them a rating! They have a number of interviews available there.

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I went to a great deal of trouble this year searching for travel baggage that had colours or patterns that would show up on baggage carousels and on planes. I didn’t want my baggage to go missing or get taken by someone else and I wanted to be able to identify it quickly. But I think all speaker travellers need to have a look at what Tim Gard from the US does. He’s a scream! Enjoy.

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I had the pleasure of speaking at the Executive Assistant & Personal Assistant 2008 Conference in Perth earlier this week. Most attending I did not know but there were a small number of familiar faces there. And I met face-to-face some I just know via email.

My topic was on Networking for Success and I was amazed at the numbers there who did not have business cards for the businesses they represented. To me this is an important part of networking - even if you’re connecting with the photocopier technician to get something done. How is he going to know who to call back?  Obviously there are some things still the same - 15 years after I left the corporate world!

It was also good to see the excitement amongst some who’d never heard of the VA industry and wanted to know more. I look forward to hearing from those ladies very soon!

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