Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

Last week, I was talking to a fellow Virtual Assistant. She said, in a discouraged voice, “all my clients are referrals, I don’t know what to do about that.”

My first thought was celebrate! 

She assumed this was a sign that her marketing wasn’t working (because no new clients were coming to her di...

Working from home and making your own hours are part of what makes being a Virtual Assistant so wonderful.

Working from home is great, but you have to be careful – those freedoms and others like them can come back to bite you if you don’t establish some ground rules for yourself.

With no boss or c...

As Virtual Assistants, most of the time, we work with people we’ve never met. It took me a while to get used to this, particularly since different people can have very different work and communication styles.

Every client is different.

Some prefer emailing me their work, some want to talk to me on...

One of the best things about being a VA is the dress code – or, more accurately, the lack of one. For example, as I type this I am in my sweats and slippers and will not be showering until I exercise later in the day!

But, that doesn’t mean my business, from top to bottom, doesn’t need to look and ...

When I launched my Virtual Assistant business back in 2010, one of the first things I did was build a WordPress website.

I knew my new business needed one, and I chose to build it myself because I also knew that having solid skills in WordPress would help me build my business and make money.

If yo...

One of my goals each year is centered around how much money I want to make as a Virtual Assistant.

Here are a few tips for setting your financial goals for 2019:

1. Review your hourly rate. Ask yourself, “Am I charging enough for the services that I provide?” What are clients willing to pay for my
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From time to time, as Virtual Assistants, we need to fire a client. For one reason or another, it turns out you’re just not a good fit for each other and it’s time to part ways. This can be stressful, even under the best circumstances, but it’s an important part of your business to know what to do.

When I first began work as a Virtual Assistant, I thought I should try to work as fast as possible. Sometimes I even cut corners because I was afraid that clients would get upset if my work took too long.

What I quickly learned, however, was that the last thing clients wanted to do was point out mi...

Like most VAs, I work by the hour. Unlike most VAs, I get paid up front and have zero bad debt.

Given the scope and unpredictability of the work, it’s hard to come up with a flat fee that makes you and the client happy.

But hourly work presents many problems, not the least of which is the fact tha...