Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
As a Virtual Assistant who does a lot (a lot!) of complicated meeting scheduling for clients, I’ve found a few tools that help me get the job done. Read on below for a look at three that I rely on the most!
Here are my “go-to” tools for keeping on top of the many, many meetings...
Being a Virtual Assistant can certainly be overwhelming at times: Tasks can pour in from email, clients can make last-minute requests, details can start to feel overpowering.
Sometimes when it’s really busy, it’s difficult to know what to do first. The five suggestions below will help...
As a Virtual Assistant, having an email inbox that’s out of control can be very stressful – and keeping it clean can feel like a full-time job.
But when emails are coming in all day long, filled with valuable information that you need in order to do your work well, it’s...
When you’re a Virtual Assistant – a person who sells time – it’s essential to get a handle on how you spend your days.
This is hard enough if you work in a traditional office. If you work at home, things can be even more challenging. Distractions are everywhere you look...
Eight years ago, when I first began working as a Virtual Assistant, I used spiral notebooks to track my notes from client calls and meetings.
They were easy to store on my desk and with just five or six clients, I was able to have a different color cover for each one.
But as my client list grew...
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...
As a Virtual Assistant, I frequently make appointments for my clients. That includes sending meeting invitations.
If you follow the easy steps detailed below, you can send a great invite (regardless of what calendar program you may be using)!
1. Choose a title that makes sense to everyone.
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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...
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...
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...
