Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

I hear this often from my Virtual Assistant students:  “I just need X more clients and I’ll be all set.”

I’ve never understood this, since the quantity of work for each client fluctuates greatly. I have worked with over 200 clients these last 11 years and not one of them has remained consistent wi...

Sue, a VA Connection community member, reached out to me this week for help with client boundary-setting. She said that her clients want their work done immediately, often outside of her usual working hours.

She’s not alone. This is a common complaint in the VA world. Many times, Virtual Assistant...

As a Virtual Assistant, it’s important to be as professional as possible with new clients. And, it’s important to start off on the right foot.

This is a very important time in your client relationship to set the stage for a successful relationship.

To stay consistent, efficient, and ensure that ea...

When you work as a virtual assistant, you naturally focus on getting done what needs getting done. That’s the right approach – it keeps clients happy and keeps the money flowing into your bank account.

But if you never stop to take a breath, pick up your head, and see where you’re trying to go, you...

You're mostly focused on client work when you’re a Virtual Assistant. But it’s important to move forward with your business goals as well, which is not always easy to do.

I’ve discovered that if I track my progress every week, I can get my client work done and achieve my own goals.

Here’s how to ...

When you work for someone else, your employer provides you with a computer, a phone, an email address and business cards. The company has a logo, a website and procedures established for how to get the work done.

But … when you work for yourself, you start with none of that. It’s up to you to provi...

Virtual Assistants always have lots of balls in the air. That’s just the nature of the work.

The downside of so much activity, however, is that sometimes we fall into a habit of doing what’s in front of us instead of thinking through the best next step on our ever-growing to do list.

When that hap...

Over the course of my career as a Virtual Assistant, I have noticed that it is very difficult, when adopting a new system or process, to be successful without going all the way to 100%. Whether it’s for my business or a client, if I don’t commit and go the distance as soon as possible, bedlam sets i...

I remember when I was first starting my career as a VA 14 years ago – I would routinely overwhelm my prospects on our 30-minute free Discovery calls.

I didn’t do it on purpose, but over and over, I could hear when I had crossed the line and was talking too much.

The problem was my fear that they wou...

When you’re a Virtual Assistant, likely working from home, it can be difficult to stay focused and in your seat all day.

Let’s face it, working from home is awesome, but there are distractions wherever you look. Linen closets to be reorganized, laundry to fold, errands to run, right?

But if you wa...