@Ginny – I mentioned your suggestion in today’s post and will probably take it. Thanks!

@SG – It’s the Japanese. Google it. With the kids out of the room.

@Rhonda – I don’t think I’m ready to undertake a newsletter yet, but I should look to my own habits re: audio and video. I’m like you. I don’t want to watch/listen live.

@ Rebecca – I owe you an email. I’m just buried in them, sorry.

@GP – Well, I’m not going to complain if you send people to me!

@Geoff – I’m not sure how to handle the Q&A, but I’ll figure it out. I want to work with how you all want it done.

@Katrina – Well, that’s the point. The site is “Learn To Be Your Own VA,” not “Hire Me To Be Your VA.” Frankly, I’m not eager for more linear, hourly work. So you’re in the right place. DIY is exactly what this site is supposed to be about, so please keep the feedback coming on all aspects of what you’d like relative to how I’m delivering.

@Denise – I will not bow to IE 7.

@Barbara – See my comment to Katrina… you’re EXACTLY my target market. I’m offering the “I do it” services as an addendum. The point of this site is supposed to be about YOU doing it.

@Les – I owe you an email or two as well. Sorry about that. But to answer, I think if you keep reading this site, it’ll do a decent job of keeping you up on stuff. I know how you feel, though… it seems like you MUST KNOW IT ALL AND DO IT ALL PERFECTLY. I personally don’t think you need to know how to do it all. Each bit you add may help, but you have a site and you talk to your readers through it. That’s enough. Everything else is gravy. Will it help? Sure. Is it totally necessary, or necessary RIGHT NOW? Not at all. Deep breath.

@Susan – Another on the intended DIY nature of the site. I don’t want most people to hire me. I’m not in this to be “hired.”

@Mahala – The problem is that it would take forever. The webinars would last three hours. I think videos are a natural middle ground, combined with online tutorials. You can move at your own comfortable pace. Really, another reason why live webinars might not totally make sense.

@Merideth – Great. Good to know, because that’s the direction I’m headed.

@Mimi – Yep, that’s EXACTLY what I’m thinking of for the tutorials. Anyone who has had me install a blog, the 10-step process you walked through is what I want to do for the rest of this stuff. It’s going to take a lot of time, and it will come slowly… but it will come. So tell your friends.

I also work best with info that I can revisit at my own pace and puzzle through.

Thank you for your wonderful help!

Keep the feedback coming!

(My interest is getting my ‘meaning’ out there – I know it has to be professional but I would drop things like PowerPoint in a heartbeat and go back to chalk-and- talk when I lecture, so my approach is very different from most, if not all, of your clients.)

What do I need? (A Zig-a-zigar, answer supplied by the Spice Girls in keeping with your musical question). I need a human face/interaction to help tutor me on the problems and the specific opportunities and choices I have. Yes you need to be all things to all people. A personal coach (in whatever form) to answer questions at different levels. Let me explain:

I have two competing IT factors. First, there is just so much stuff out there, and its changing all the time- so how can I get a handle on this? Second, does everyone have to do all this stuff in order to make a business out of it? Where are the basic instructions to help me wade through all this and where the heck did everyone else get their information from? Did I miss a meeting?

I will put another idea in an email (too long to explain here) however.

As for Octopus porn (do you sense another venture?) then who can forget such films as “Octo-pussy”, “Ten-tacled Tom” and the outrageous ‘all-natural’ musical “Squidoo!”, featuring such ‘prawn-star’ classics as “New squid on the block”, “I’ll take the bait” and “I’ve got eight legs (and an eye on you)”?