Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

As a virtual assistant, we are often asked to manage big projects for a client. It might be migrating them to a new email system, building a new website, or moving them to a cloud-based solution to manage their business.

While big projects can be fun and exciting, it’s easy to become overwhelmed an...

When you’re a Virtual Assistant caring for other entrepreneur’s businesses, it’s easy to neglect your own.

However, tolerating issues that you are tripping on, day in and day out, will get in the way of your day-to-day success – and sabotage your ability to grow and scale your business. That’s why ...

From time to time, when you’re first starting out as a virtual assistant, it’s not uncommon to find yourself with more time on your hands than work. When that happens, I like to take a look around my business and play a little game with myself called “if my business doubled tomorrow, what do I wish ...

When marketing your business, it’s important to stay in touch with your network. Staying top of mind is one of the keys to getting referrals (my favorite type of client).

Staying in touch can take many forms, but an underutilized, highly effective way, is sending handwritten notes via snail mail.

When you’re just starting out as a Virtual Assistant, one of the scariest things are the ever-powerful “what ifs.”

You know … What if the client asks me this? What if the client asks me that? What if I don’t know? What do I say?

Virtual Assistants are problem solvers; getting caught without all th...

I attribute a large part of my success as a virtual assistant to being super-easy to work with. That means that I often put my clients’ preferences ahead of my own.

I’m not talking about getting taken advantage of or being mistreated. What I’m talking about is thinking about their needs first, whil...

Staying in touch with the people you know is a great way to get clients and grow your business. In order to do that, you’ll need to have their email addresses organized, in one place, and ready to use.

You’ll want your list to be as large as possible, to make the biggest impact when you contact the...

What’s a Virtual Assistant cost? It’s all over the map, ranging from $15 to $100 an hour, or more. It’s hard to know where you fit in – and be confident in what you’ve decided! – when there is so much variation in our industry.

When you’re not clear about your pricing, several things can happen (no...

Maybe you've heard one of these phrases, "The riches are in the niches" or "Niche down to scale up," and wondered if they're true. 

I don’t quite agree.

There are three ways to niche down: you can niche by service, industry, or both.

For example:

• You only work with coaches
• You only provide email ne
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When I became a Virtual Assistant ten years ago, being able to do the work was easy. Knowing how to get clients was another matter. And when it was suggested that I write a newsletter to help make this happen, I thought: “Now that’s going to be hard.” 

I’m not in love with writing. I’m really busy....