Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

Did you know that you can export the information associated with a profile on LinkedIn? It’s a great way to get the email addresses for your connections, export your recommendations so you can add them to your clients’ (or your) website, or look at the history of your messages.

This...

Several years ago, I began offering potential clients a free, 30-minute call phone call with me to talk about their business. No sales pitch, no pressure, just a 30-minute conversation about anything they wanted to talk about.

I make it easy for people to sign up for these sessions. All they have...

Back in the dark ages, when I first learned to type, I was taught to add two spaces following every period. Today, decades later, it’s a reflex almost like breathing.

In the digital age, the reason for that second space no longer exists. In fact, and because that extra space now...

I post to WordPress websites almost every day. Clients send me the text in a variety of forms – Word documents, Google Docs, sometimes they ask me to pull the text from a MailChimp or Constant Contact e-newsletter. Pretty straightforward, right?

But here’s the problem: the underlying...

The holidays are right around the corner, and the next thing you know, it’ll be time for summer vacations. That means different routines for us, the kids (if you’ve got them), and our clients.

So, a key question is: What’s the best way to let clients know about an upcoming...

Organization is a BIG part of becoming a successful Virtual Assistant. You’ll quickly find that many of your clients, despite how capable they may be in other areas, are unbelievably unorganized! These people will count on you to whip them into shape.

Not only that, imagine how...

Ever wonder why some images you see in email newsletters have text right next to the image and others have a nice space around them?

In Constant Contact it’s called padding and in MailChimp it’s called margins.

To add more space around an image In Constant Contact, click on the image...

I’ve been friends with Lisa for years. Decades, actually. She’s a rock star real estate agent in Boston and wow, she sure can sell houses.

The funny thing is, despite how long we’ve been friends, I’ve hardly ever been to her house. We almost always meet at a local...