Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
When you’re a Virtual Assistant, working from home, it can be difficult to stay focused.
On some days (especially the sunny ones!), it can seem impossible; everything except your computer is calling your name.
When it gets difficult to focus, here are some tips for staying in your seat:
- Plan br...
Although it might not seem like it, as Virtual Assistants, we really do get to decide how much money we can earn each year. We do this by deciding how much to charge, when we’ll get paid, whom we’ll work with, and how many hours we want to be billable.
And while it’s difficult to believe this at ti...
As Virtual Assistants, it’s important to set up guidelines with our clients from the start. In most cases, they will follow your lead – so you need to lead!
When a new client begins work with me, I send him or her a welcome email immediately. The email includes guidelines of how I work, my pricing ...
Often, in our Facebook group, there are questions and discussion on the topics of marketing and client acquisition.
As there should be! Clients are what make everything works.
When first starting out in business, many Virtual Assistants treat marketing as something that’s done periodically. I disa...
When you work as a Virtual Assistant, your business depends on you getting the work done. When things are going well, it’s pretty easy to handle the day-to-day. But when life throws a curveball, it can be difficult to navigate.
Recently, life threw me several big curveballs – AND they all came at t...
There are lots of things about being a Virtual Assistant that are great. Setting your own hours, choosing who you’ll work with, deciding what kind of work you want to do and determining how much money you make… all while working at home wearing your favorite clothes. What’s not to love?
And, there ...
When you first start out as a Virtual Assistant, there are a few housekeeping details to take care of immediately. One of the most important is to open a business bank account.
As soon as you begin getting paid as a Virtual Assistant, it’s important to establish a separate bank account for your bus...
As a Virtual Assistant and business owner, it’s important to make it easy for people to get in touch with us.
Here are the three most important places for your contact information to be front and center:
- LinkedIn. Check out the section called “See contact info” at the top of your personal profil ...
When I first started out as a Virtual Assistant, I wasn’t always sure when my time was billable and when it wasn’t. For example, if a client asked me to do something I’d never done before, I wasn’t comfortable figuring it out while they paid me. But I wasn’t sure I should do it for free, either.
He...
When I first began as a VA, it was particularly important to get the word out to everyone I knew.
First, I spent time getting clear on how I was going to describe my business (see this post about how to do that). Then it was time to spread the word…
Here’s what I do to stay top of mind and current...
