Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
Meet Analisa Castro, Castro Virtual Assistance.
Before Analisa started her Virtual Assistant business two years ago, she spent about thirty years as a business manager, with bookkeeping and finance wrapped into the role. She was good at it. She also knew what she was worth, and she had reached...
Our newest chickens hatched on July 13th.
It’s the end of October and they’re still living in the house.
That’s not the story I thought I’d be telling you.
On July 29th we bought a shed to turn into a coop. Easy. Shed shows up, chickens move in, done.
The shed took three weeks to arrive, and ...
Meet Jen Cohen, EssentialJen.
Jen Cohen’s workday ends at 1:00. Her clients know that, and they plan around it. If one of them hands her a big project on a Thursday at 12:30, she tells them she’s signing off in half an hour and they’ll pick it up Monday.
If someone asks for something outsi...
When you’re just starting out as a Virtual Assistant, pricing feels like something you figure out later. After the first client. After you know what you’re doing.
I hear a version of this in every Launch Pad training I do: “I’ll figure out my pricing once I have a client.” Or “I’ll start low and r...
Meet Cindy Howard, Lightning Admin VA.
When Cindy decided to learn to knit, she told a friend her first project would be a pair of socks.
Her friend gave her the advice every beginner gets: start with a scarf.
Cindy wanted to knit socks. So she bought a sock pattern and everything that goe...
When I opened my first business in 2001, an online baby gift boutique called Blueberry Babies, I wanted it to look bigger than it was.
So I set up email addresses for departments that didn't exist. A whole company's worth of inboxes. Every single one of them was me.
I thought that was confidence....
It's gray and wet here in Virginia this morning. There's a long list on my desk. And when I sat down to write this newsletter, I had nothing.
No story. No big idea. I waited a few minutes for one to show up. It didn't.
So I'm writing about that.
I started this newsletter on April 16, 2018. Ever...
Meet Wendy Gregory, Crescendo Solutions LLC. 
When Wendy joined VA School, she had been out of work for over a year.
Not for lack of trying. She'd been applying to dozens of places. Wendy has a resume most people would envy: she worked on Capitol Hill for two members of Congress, then spe...
This weekend Greg and I worked on the new chicken coop and run for Chicken Village.
We'd been working on it for a few weeks and knew we were getting close. We thought the new chicks might move into their new home this weekend.
Before we started building, we had measurements, we had a plan, and th...
Meet Shamayne Brown, Camp Virtual Assistance.
A few weeks ago, Shamayne walked into a Boot Barn that just opened in her area.
She used to be a retail store manager for Boot Barn, so walking through those doors brought back great memories. She enjoyed that work, and she's the first to say so....
