Social Networking Maintenance Assistance

Help with Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin – set up accounts, assist with profiles, find new compatible connections, weed out spammers, time-wasters and those who do not interact, send welcome messages to new contacts, send follow-up messages, etc.

$20 per work filled hour or: $15 per hour if retained for at least TEN hours per week and paid in advance, minimum is 10 hours at $15 to equal $150. Will do free profile proofreads and edits with any paid order of this service.

Retainer Services

Proofreading, Editing, Social Networking Assistance, Help Desk Assistance, Email Account Maintenance, Blog Posting, Web Page updates, Submitting your Blogs & Articles to directories, etc. can be retained weekly or monthly to save you money and assure continual workflow. You can use your entire retainer fee on one project OR mix them up in any of these categories as needed.

Retainer fee for the above services, paid in advance ONLY:

Ten hours per week – $15 per hour = $150
Fifteen hours per week – $13 per hour = $199
Twenty hours per week – $11 per hour = $220 <======= BEST DEAL!

Limited offer, good until I line up 3 or 4 retainer clients …

Monthly retainer of at least 20 hours per week, EVERY week, booked and paid in advance for a month at a time = $10 per hour. To assure my very best work and timeliness, I will limit this option to TWO monthly retainer clients and discontinue
the other retainer offers and only accept more work by the assignment at normal $20 per hour rate as my monthly retainer assignments are fulfilled and time allows.

** TRANSCRIPTION is NOT included in the retainable services. A one-hour audio takes at least six hours labor to type up, proofread and edit. I cannot discount this service and will have to retire this service if I get too busy with retainer clients for my other services. **

Remember, I am a Virtual Assistant who LOVES to do editing , proofreading and
transcription assignments!

Jan Tallent
Tallent Agency Virtual Assistance

573-775-4520 jan@tallentagency.com

Today, I would like to share some more spelling helper tips. This is what I love and one of the few things I have confidence and sureness in.

Last week alone, I noticed several instances of:

no
know

being used incorrectly on web pages and blogs. Okay, if you use twitter or text a message, you will often use the shorthand “no” when you mean “know”, just as we use C for see and 2 for to, two OR too, but in any other context, no is a reply in the negative OR short for none, as in ” I have no idea”, etc.

The other know is a short version of KNOWLEDGE, as in “I don’t know.

Probably the next often one that I catch is seen and scene . Seen is the past tense of saw or see, as in, for example, ” I have seen the light. Scene is a place, like “the scene of the crime.

A detective might say, “I have seen the evidence that the perpetrator left at the scene of the robbery.”

One I do not see used often but comes to mind is sheer . This would be an adjective and one of its meanings is see-through. Its sound-the-same word that could be confused with it would be shear as when the wool is shaved off of a lamb.

Maybe surprisingly, two words that sound exactly the same that I rarely see used in the wrong context are our meaning “belonging to us” and hour which is “sixty minutes”, but that might be because the meanings are SO obvious that no one seems to get them mixed up.

My last set of words today is except and accept and I see these mixed up a LOT.

The word except is used where you want to signify an “exception” or and exclusion. “We are going to visit all of the relatives except Aunt Lucy, as she is sick.”

Accept means that you will take, allow, settle for, etc. as in, “I accept your challenge,” or “I am glad to accept your proposal.”

I am willing to accept part of the package, except for the broken glasses.”

I hope these little tips and examples are of some help to my readers.
I love proofreading and editing and knowing that a lot of online bloggers and webmasters cannot afford to hire someone to do these simple fixes for them makes me glad to share some of my very limited, but SO important, knowledge with them.

I really and truly want to see you present yourself and your business in the best possible light and although, admittedly, a lot of your visitors might not notice errors, or even CARE if they do, if even ONE potential client or customer is turned off by grammar and / or spelling errors and leaves your site with a bad impression, that is one too many!

I am fast and efficient with this service, as my satisfied clients are happy to attest to AND generally manage to proofread and edit from 4 to 5 pages or more per hour. Do NOT let the $20 per hour rate scare you off – I do not piddle around and waste YOUR time OR mine and get as much as it is possible to accurately get done in your hour AND the job is not done until YOU are satisfied, so you have nothing to lose and more time to do what you like to do or are best at to gain.

Remember, I am a Virtual Assistant who LOVES to do editing , proofreading and
transcription assignments!

Jan Tallent
Tallent Agency Virtual Assistance

573-775-4520 jan@tallentagency.com

Not only am I a Virtual Assistant who specializes in proofreading and editing , but I have also always excelled in spelling and grammar since grade school and later high school.

I have a hard time reading a book for pleasure or enjoying a blog post because I can NOT turn off the part of my brain that sees the spelling, grammar and word usage errors. That is honestly a downer in my personal life but a big plus in my professional one.

Today, I am going to share three of the most common spelling or usage errors I constantly see both on the net and offline. These are on even the biggest famous name web sites and often in the biggest famous name print books. I am hoping that someone who reads this post might actually learn and benefit from these tips.

Number ONE

The number one, most often mis-used word I find both on the net and off is it’s and its. As a matter of fact, in the 10th grade, I LOST a city wide (St. Louis public schools) spelling bee over this one! I had managed to out-spell hundreds of other straight A & Honor roll students to get to the spell-off between one other student and ME, and with some of the hardest words you can imagine, and then LOST with its versus it’s!

Its is the POSSESSIVE. Something belongs TO IT.

An example would be: The dog wagged its tail when it saw its owner.

It’s is a contraction for the words it and is.

An example for this would be: The dog is wagging its tail because it’s happy to see its owner.

The second most common one I see AND the one I edit the most is the usage for these: your and you’re.

The POSSESSIVE for this one is your, as in:
Your dog is wagging its tail because it is glad that you’re its owner.

Likewise, you’re is the contraction for you and are.

Your dog is wagging its tail because it is glad that you’re its owner.

Number three is the there, their and they’re usages.

There are three ways to spell this word that sounds the same but they mean totally different things and they’re always ready to mix up their users.

Their is the POSSESSIVE form of this word. If it belongs to them, it is theirs.

They’re is a contraction for they and are.

There are lots of other usage errors out there but these three are the ones I see the most.

Remember, I am a Virtual Assistant who LOVES to do editing , proofreading and
transcription assignments!

Jan Tallent
Tallent Agency Virtual Assistance

573-775-4520 jan@tallentagency.com