Posting on Craigslist and Kijiji

For the last few months, I have been posting Ads for my client every day at 9am and 4pm on Craigslist and Kijiji, so that my client can rent out their rental properties. Posting on Craigslist and Kijiji is a great way for anyone wanting to sell their items, product and/or services for FREE. To get the most responses to an Ad a person must post their Ad once a day or multiple times a day. If the person is busy and has no time to post, I offer to post ads for them. Along side my client, I also post my Ads to sell my services at Urban Admin Inc. I am starting to post my featured services.

Actual Ad below:

vancouver, BC craigslist > vancouver > services offered > small biz ads

Need Administrative Help Call Us! (Greater Vancouver Area)

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Date: 2011-06-20, 9:55PM PDT
Reply to: your anonymous craigslist address will appear here

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Urban Admin Inc. is a Virtual Administrative Assistant company specializing in providing administrative support to Small Businesses Owners, Entrepreneurs and Busy professionals.

Services offered (but not limited to):

Featured Service: Customized Spreadsheets

Urban Admin Inc. provides spreadsheet solutions for businesses of all sizes. We build simple or complex spreadsheets. It is tailored to the client's operational needs. We can upgrading pre-existing workbooks and problem solving errors and fixed formulas.

Urban Admin Inc. also provides Retainer Packages, Per Hour and Per project services.
Find out how you can get a FREE HOUR of service and 100% unused hours for the first month!

Urban Admin Inc. provides services in a virtual setting and is also available in the Metro Vancouver Area.

Please check us out at www.urbanadmininc.com. Call us at 778 829 2578.

• Location: Greater Vancouver Area
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 2452962848

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Networking

I love meeting new people. Networking is a great way in which I have been able to meet new people and potenial clients. I have been going to different groups such as, Meet up groups from Meetup.com, Business Networking International (BNI) and other networking groups in the Vancouver Area. Some networking events are casual mix and mingle and some are very structured. I make sure I have alot of business cards on hand and dress very professional. I want people to see that Virtual Assistants are not just in cyberspace but can help them and their businesses in person and virtually.

Karima Nanji
Owner, Urban Admin Inc.
http://www.urbanadmininc.com/
Virtual Assistant in Vancouver

Excel spreadsheets

I love making complex spreadsheets for my clients. My favorite spreadsheet is the Order Sheet I made for my client that has a factory. Instead of hand writing data and adding the numbers manually. I designed a individual Ordersheet for each order that comes in and all the Order Taker has to do is place the amount in the right spaces. The individual orders appears in the Dailysheet where all the orders show minus the inventory count (which is manual typed in at the beginning of the week). The numbers are carried forward to the next day. There is also a space for the Supervisor to compare the actual stock to the stock written. At the end of the week all the Dailysheets are shown in the Weeklysheet and than so on to the Monthlysheet. This speadsheet gives my client a more accurate count of their inventory and saves Ordertaker time and energy.

My favorite Excel functions are Condition Formating, Find & Replace and Sort and Filter.

Some information below:
Conditional Formating: http://www.wikihow.com/Apply-Conditional-Formatting-in-Excel
Find & Replace: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288291
Sort and Filter: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/CH010064845.aspx

If you are having any trouble with Excel feel free to email me at karima@urbanadmininc.com.

The Learning Curve

By running Urban Admin Inc. as a full time career, I am learning about more about myself. I am learning about running a business and other people. My work week is not 9am -5pm and I do not get my weekends off. (See I am writing this on Sunday on a longweekend). I am not complaining. I enjoy helping people and that is what I do. I help people. I help them save time, energy and even money. I help them organize themselves so that they can focus on their business or their personal lives. I have learned that time is a valuable commodity. Time can be money, presious moments with family and friends, and health. Time should not be wasted.

Karima Nanji, Owner Urban Admin Inc.
http://www.urbanadmininc.com/

Starting my Virtual Administrative Business

For the past 3 months, I have been working on establishing my own virtual administrative assistant business. I have had my ups and downs. There have been times of excitement and days of "why did I get into this". I realize that life is a journey, your path can change many times but ultimately you want happiness at the end.

I know that path of a entrepreneur is a difficult one. I know I have the determination and courage to take this path plus I know I am not alone.


Karima Nanji
Owner, Urban Admin Inc.