[Hidden-tech] Seeking tech-skilled and reasonably priced VA

[Shel Horowitz, Ethical/Green Marketing Expert]

I had a very technically skilled VA for many years, but she's become 
less and less reliable. Then I hired one who is thrown by anything 
too technical. I can still use her for some tasks, but I need to find 
someone who can handle what she can't.

I need someone to help with website management: putting up new or 
revised content, adding or occasionally subtracting or repricing 
items in my Zencart shopping cart, sending out newsletters, and a 
monthly column, dealing with webhosting issues (including blocking 
the occasional hack)--with a strong technical background. Once in a 
while, redesigning some component.

I have about a dozen sites in all, most of them done in WordPress 
hosted on my own servers. Three sites are done in HTML with CSS on 
two of those--the two that get the most new content. The third is a 
small, old site that hardly ever gets updated. I do a lot of the 
updating of the WP sites myself, but not all of it. The HTML sites, I 
definitely *don't* want to update myself, but there are templates for 
new content.

I'm looking at the tasks I've requested over the last few months. 
Here's a sampler:

Deal with my then-hosting company, HTTMme, blocking several of my 
sites, in sequence, for malware: tracking down and getting rid of the 
rogue script, running tests on Securi, etc.
Work with Hostgator on the transition when I switched hosting companies
Fix a broken shopping cart (seems to be related to an SSL issue. 
Solution was in process last time I checked)
Deal with PCI certification challenges for credit card merchant processing
Reinstall a simple webform that I accidentally overwrote

I expect to continue to use my current VA for routine matters, but 
she's not up to handling these sorts of things. So...can anyone 
recommend someone who'd be available for a few hours per month on a 
pretty-much on-call basis, priced affordably?
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Shel Horowitz
Marketing consultant/copywriter, author, speaker, book shepherd
Affordable, ethical, effective marketing materials and strategies
"Reach Green, socially conscious consumers with
marketing that has THEM calling YOU"

Twitter: @shelhorowitz

* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified
* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame

http://greenandprofitable.com/ http://guerrillamarketinggoesgreen.com
mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388
Award-winning author of eight books. Latest:
Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)
Blog on Green Marketing/Ethics/Politics:
http://greenandprofitable.com/shels-blog/
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