Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

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...

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...

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...

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...

When you’re a Virtual Assistant, it’s often difficult to know how much to charge your clients for your services. There is such a wide range in the marketplace that it can be nerve-wracking to talk to clients and potential clients about how much you charge.

One phrase that I often hear...

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...

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...

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...

As a Virtual Assistant, you can use LinkedIn to stay in touch with existing relationships and make new ones, all leading to additional clients. I don’t recommend using it to “cold call,” however. It’s about staying in touch with those you already know.

Here’s how I...

When you’re a Virtual Assistant, you have a lot of freedom. You get to decide when you work, how much you work and what you want to charge for your expertise and time.

But in order to hit your financial goals, you need to do a little math.

Let’s say you want to earn $50,000 a year...