Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

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...

Yesterday, a Virtual Assistant messaged me on LinkedIn about potentially hiring her. She had done her homework – she checked out my LinkedIn profile and my website and wrote me a great message. I was intrigued so I clicked over to her site.

Uh oh. As I browsed through, I saw a number of errors. One...

At the height of my Virtual Assistant business I had over 50 active clients at one time, you can imagine how much work was coming my way.

On any given day, new tasks can come to me as a result of a phone conversation, via an email request, or through the project management software system I share w...

When I first started working as a Virtual Assistant I worked on a simple laptop. I was able to get my work done, but it was often frustrating having to switch back and forth between browser tabs when copying and pasting information between programs.

Shortly after my boyfriend, Greg, and I began dat...

I’ve been getting paid by my clients via credit card for about six years now. Many people think that paying the credit card processing fee (usually 2.9% of the total paid) is crazy, but there are many reasons that I love getting paid this way:

1. I know what’s going on. When someone pays me with a c
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One of the biggest challenges for Virtual Assistants is getting clients – especially when you’re just starting out. You may love the work and be good at it, but none of that matters until you have clients to work with.

Here are a few tips for getting great clients:

1. Be clear about how to get star...