Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

A big part of being a Virtual Assistant is building relationships with our clients based on trust and respect. One important way to do this is to make it easy for your clients to contact you.

When I worked in an office, my manager could see me sitting at my desk through the crack in her door. But i...

As a Virtual Assistant, I live in email. Gmail, to be exact. Interestingly, some people LOVE it and some people HATE it.

I confess that the first time I tried Gmail, I couldn’t stand it either. But about 7 years ago, after being frustrated by Outlook’s inability to sync with my iPhone, a friend twi...

As a Virtual Assistant, I’m tracking many things on the internet every day using a browser. Among them are client email accounts, calendars, and social media.

For my own business, I’m constantly looking at my email, project management software, my calendar, my contact database, and more. And that’s...

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 is not an intui...

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 t...

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 “counts” as a chara...

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 formatting of ...

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 schedule change?

When it...

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 impressed your clien...