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Legal Secretaries by Julia Wojdacz

Virtual Paralegal Services and Every Day People

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I get calls quite often from every day people who want help with the following:

  • Preparing court papers;
  • Researching cases;
  • Preparing a Motion to Dismiss;
  • Helping the individual answer Interrogatories or Production for Documents;

I do not like to turn business away BUT in the state where I live, which is Missouri and the previous state where I lived Mississippi, a paralegal is prohibited from doing any sort of legal work without the supervision of an attorney!  The American Bar Association which oversees most of the attorneys across the country, besides your local bar association, takes practicing law without a license as a very serious offense.  There have been paralegals and virtual paralegals who have attempted to do this in the past and their businesses have been shut down, along with a hefty fine!

If you have a legal question PLEASE consult an attorney.  They have the experience, the schooling and the know how to see if you even have a case.  Most of the time they will give you a consultation for a reduced price or sometimes even free.  Do not try to skirt around the law because 9 times out of 10 it will come back to bite you in the butt! :-).

Benefits Of Search Engine Optimization For You

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There are two ways to measure the success of business websites.  You can check the page ranking within the internet search engines as well as the search engine result page.  If you are a business owner with a website, you should use search engine optimization to benefit your business from the many tools and resources that the internet has to offer.

The downside to having a website for your business is that you have to ensure that internet traffic can actually find your website.  How will people who use the internet even know your website exists if they can’t find it? If you don’t take the necessary steps to ensure your website is ranked accordingly within the major search engines; they can’t!

Search engine optimization can help your business.  SEO can place your website possibly within the top of the search engine results.  Help from SEO will not only aid with increasing sales for your business but also increase the flow of internet traffic to your website.  SEO can also aid with your products visibility while improving business relations with your current customers.

The first mistake you could make in becoming a business website owner, is to disregard how important the internet search engines can be to your business.  Internet search engines drive the majority of internet traffic.  Internet users click on links found within the search engine result pages.  If you can get a decent ranking with your business site within the major search engines, you will stand a great chance of success, for website.

You must ensure that your website is appealing to your visitors.  There is no need to draw any visitors into your business website, if you do not have relevant content or a website which internet users find appealing.  It does not take a long period of time someone to decide if they like or dislike your website (less than 3 seconds on average).  Your focus must be to grab their attention when they stumble upon or find your website through a search engine.

If you are not an SEO expert then you might want to consider hiring one.  SEO experts can improve the traffic to your commercial website, while aiding your business to be competitive with other online businesses.  SEO’s offer many services which your business could greatly benefit from.  Website reporting, search engine submissions, link popularity building, as well as monthly maintenance are a few of the things, which SEO’s can offer your business website.

SEO’s allow companies no matter what size to advertise their products and services with the power of the internet.  If you are uncomfortable, hiring an individual SEO expert, then a search engine optimization company might be right up your alley.

SEO companies or individual SEO experts can be a great help, with maintaining your website, as well as your page rankings.  If you choose the right company for your business site, you will eventually see the results in not only the growth of the internet traffic to your website; but also profits.

Social Media Marketing and Your Business

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Is social media marketing a daunting task to your business? Social media marketing is a great tool, if you know how to do it correctly.  A lot of business coaches recommend that small businesses delve into social media marketing. So the business owner sets up the Facebook fan page, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn account.  So now what? The business coach recommends that you send status updates at least once-a-day. They recommend that you should send tweets at least several times a day.

Now, what are you going to send status updates about? What are you going to tweet about? It is recommended that you don’t always send status updates and tweets about specials of your business. It is recommended that you should send status updates and tweets regarding what you are doing in your community, or what special events you are attending in your community. Do you sponsor a little league team? A little league hockey team? A soccer team? These are perfect topics to send status updates about or to tweet about. Let everyone know on your fan page what those events are and how they can help sponsor the same team.

Has there been a new restaurant that just opened up in your community? Well, visit the new restaurant and then give a status update of how your visit was, the food, the service. Let your fans know if you enjoyed the restaurant or not.

If you have children you can also send status updates and tweets about what your children are doing in school.  Mix these status updates and tweets in with some tweets about new things that is going on with your business.  This is a great way for people to get to know you, have a relationship with you, build trust with you and your business. The best way to get business is from people who know, like and trust you those are the people will do business with you.

Now, how are you going to get all of this done? Well, there are virtual assistants in the work force like myself who will schedule tweets and status updates for you. A virtual assistant can also submit your articles to different article submission sites. This way you can do your work while your status updates and tweets get posted.  Don’t be leary about outsourcing these tasks to a virtual assistant, we are just like an administrative assistant, but just do it virtually from our fully functional office.

If you would like to know more please feel free to email me by clicking here.

Now Open and Enrolling New Students – “School of Transcription”

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Saint Louis, Missouri – The School of Transcription helps people who want to work-from-home, paralegals, and transcriptionists currently working in this field learn the “right way” to create good quality, professional looking transcripts. We educate transcriptionists in different audio formats, and different formatting of the transcript.

Julia Wojdacz, “The Transcription Lady” has now opened The School of Transcription! The School of Transcription is now enrolling new students for the fall term. Have you ever wondered what it takes to work from home and make a profit?  If you answered yes then the School of Transcription is the answer you have been looking for!  The school’s main mission is simple.  Focused Education that is not taught in Paralegal Studies or Trade Schools! If you ever wanted to learn how to create good quality transcription from audios, If you ever wanted to learn how to work-from-home by creating transcripts even if you are a paralegal who has just graduated from college, then this school is for you!

Julia has over 11 years of transcription experience. She has helped researchers, investigative reporters, authors, speakers, and coaches turn their audios into information products through her transcripts.  Julia wants to help you learn how to create extra income from your home, with the benefits of not having to get up and go to “work” everyday and No gas expense.

Benefits of Julia’s new and exciting school: Learn how to create professional transcripts right from your home office. Learn what is expected of you as a new paralegal in a law office. If you are ready to experience a new way of learning life changing skills, you need to sign up for The School of Transcription.

With your paid membership you will receive:

1. Access to video chat;

2. Access to text chat;

3. 24/7 access to Julia with your questions;

4. Network with other members who may be having the same problems that you are.

5. Monthly webinar to learn the tips and tricks of transcription.

6. Access to the leading mentors and successful paralegals, virtual assistants, and companies in Julia’s networking circle to assist you in your success from the first webinar to your first three months as a Newbie Transcription Professional and employment opportunities for qualified students and so much more.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up TODAY! Seating is limited!

Julia Wojdacz specializes in general and legal transcription ranging from transcribing your audios of teleseminars, correspondence, legal pleadings, memos, notes, etc. We also turn your teleseminars into info-products! Julia Wojdacz is an Accredited Legal Secretary with National Association of Legal Secretaries and is a graduate of the Associate of Applied Science Degree Program for Paralegal Studies.

Contact:
Julia Wojdacz
Founder
School of Transcription
Telephone: 888-821-3192
info@schooloftranscription.com

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Legal Secretaries by Julia Wojdacz

Paralegal and Transcription

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I started as a legal secretary over eleven years ago. When I started in the law office it was part-time as a receptionist. Over a period of time, I worked my way up to being a legal secretary. Suddenly, the attorney came in and gave me a tape and said “here, please transcribe this and do whatever it is on there.” I thought to myself, “what?!” “What is a transcript?” “What do I do with it once I’m done?” I wish that someone back then would have been around to inform me of what transcription was, and what I was supposed to do with it.

As a graduate from a college with my Associate’s Degree in Paralegal Studies, I find that the college that I attended said nothing about a paralegal needing to know transcription. So, I have set out asking paralegal students if they knew they were supposed to know transcription. You would not believe how many of them look at me dumbfounded and asked “Transcription, what is that?” “How do you do transcription?” “What is the purpose of it?”

Even with the electronic age and quite a few attorneys creating their own work, there is still a need for transcription. Attorneys may interview a witness from a car accident, it needs to be transcribed into something that the attorney can use. Defense Attorneys may have to have a jail-house taped conversation of one inmate calling someone on the “outside” transcribed, or a transcript of something that went down on the inside from a recording.

There is a misconception that transcription is easy to do, that anyone can do it. I’m sorry but I disagree! I have set out to prepare paralegals and to teach individuals how to prepare concise, good quality transcripts.

Transcription is an “art form” not just anybody can do it. You have to be able to capture the context of what the person is saying, but still have correct punctuation and grammar. The School of Transcription is your continuing education to teach new paralegals and individuals the art form of transcription. Won’t you join us today to learn the “right way” to do transcription? Classes are starting soon. Seating is limited! Don’t wait! Start your membership today! Click on

Training Transcriptionists and Paralegals

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I have received numerous comments from clients who I have done transcription for that have told me that they were unhappy with how they were treated by the transcriptionist that they hired.  The transcriptionist either didn’t take out all of the ohh’s, um’s, ahhh’s etc, didn’t get back with them on a continual basis, took a week to do a one hour audio, or realized they didn’t charge enough and left the client high and dry.  To me this is very unacceptable behavior and not at all how a client should be treated.

I also just finished my Associate’s degree with a local college here in Missouri, and they didn’t even offer to teach the paralegals any form of transcription at all.  I realized after working with clients for over three years and the problems they were facing that people who want to get into transcription think that it is easy.  They think that anyone can do it.  Well that is NOT the case.

Transcription is an art form, as I see it. You have to be concise. You have to provide a good quality product. You have to undersell and over produce.  Yes, we do transcribe verbatim but that doesn’t mean put every ohhh, ahhh and ummmm in the transcript.

For these reasons I came up with the School of Transcription. If you are a paralegal just coming out of college, or someone who wants to start their own transcription business working from home, then you need to attend the School of Transcription. When you become a member of the School of Transcription you will have access to chat with other members via text chat and video chat, blogs, forums, and access to a monthly webinar with your three month paid subscription.

In the webinar members will learn:

?  The correct equipment to use, and how to use it;

? The proper way to format: letters, memos, pleadings (if you’re a paralegal), and the proper way to format interviews;

? Also you will transcribe an hour long audio that you can use as a sample product of your service.

All of this is included with your paid membership.  So, get your membership started TODAY! Space is limited! Click on to become a charter member of the School of Transcription!

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Great software to help you in your business or personally!

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I just found out about some great new software while I was working on a transcript for one of my clients.  One of her friends suggested that her clients use a program called JingProject.com.  So, I wanted to share this with all of my friends across the internet who stop by and visit my blog.  JingProject.com is a great tool that you can use to help you if you hold seminars, webinars or just want to teach someone how to do something in particular on the computer, or if you want to record a video as well.  All you have to do is go to JingProject.com and download this software for free.  They even have a free video tutorial to get you up and running in no time.  You can either use it as a screen shot to take just a screen shot of a particular item, or you can record videos to give someone a demonstration on how to do something.

Another great tool that I found is Screenshot Captor.  This is strictly just for capturing a bunch of screen shots to save, or just to send someone a screen shot.  I think VA’s like myself would really find this tool very handy. For example: if you have a client and that you are working for, and you are doing some web design for them, or posting articles in article submission sites and you have a question, you just take a screen shot with this, you can highlight the area in question or even add an arrow to point to the question that you have.  I am really looking forward to using this particular software.  Along with the JingProject.com.

So go ahead, try these out.  Both of these sites are free.  They do ask for a small donation, but you don’t have to if you don’t want to.  Any comments that you have about this software would be great if you would leave them at the bottom of this post.  Make it a great weekend!