Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
As Virtual Assistants, it’s important to get out of the house from time to time and meet new people.
There are so many networking groups these days – find a few that you love and make it a point to attend their meetings. It will help you grow your network, get new clients and...
When you’re working as a Virtual Assistant, you spend your days doing work that your clients have delegated to you. The problem is that not everyone is good at this – the result can be miscommunications, missed deadlines and disappointment.
If you have a client who hasn’t...
When you work as a Virtual Assistant, it’s important to raise your hourly rate from time to time. But it can be scary, especially since we don’t know how our existing clients may respond.
As your speed and skills increase, so does your ability to charge more per hour. However,...
The question I hear the most when talking with Virtual Assistants is “Where do you find your clients?”
My answer? “They’re everywhere!”
Think about it. Nearly every solo professional or small business owner needs some help. That’s why to me, the supply of...
When I first started out as a Virtual Assistant, I used spiral notebooks and post-it notes to organize my work. I had six clients and six notebooks and it worked like a charm – for a while.
As my work got more complicated and the number of clients grew, I started to use project management...
When you’re just getting started as a Virtual Assistant, it’s hard to imagine where your first clients are going to come from. You might be looking for opportunities on Facebook, LinkedIn or job posting websites, but not hitting the jackpot like you were hoping.
I have some good news...
Becoming good at tracking my time was one of the most difficult transitions to becoming a successful Virtual Assistant.
After years of working in corporate, I was used to moving through my day hitting deadlines and getting my work done, but without paying attention to the minutes ticking by....
At the beginning of life as a Virtual Assistant, it may seem like you’ll never have enough work. But things can change quickly. When they do, and you bring on a steady stream of new clients, you may be surprised by how quickly your work can outstrip your available time.
This is a tricky...
It’s easy to not invest in yourself when you’re first starting out in business. You may believe that until you’re making money, you shouldn’t spend money.
But nothing could be further from the truth. If you’re serious about getting up and running with great clients,...
When you have a job, you earn a certain number of vacation days each year. In some companies, they even roll over year to year, so you can stockpile them as you wish.
But when you’re a Virtual Assistant working for yourself, how many vacation days do you “get” each year?
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