Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

Over the course of my career as a virtual assistant, I have noticed that it is very difficult, when adopting a new system or process, to be successful without going all the way to 100%. Whether it’s for my business, or a client, if I don’t commit, and go the distance as soon as...

I remember when I was first starting my career as a VA 10 years ago – I would routinely overwhelm my prospects on our 30-minute free consultation calls. I didn’t do it on purpose, but over and over I could hear when I had crossed the line and felt their strong desire to get off the...

When you’re a Virtual Assistant, likely working from home, it can be difficult to stay focused and in your seat all day.

Let’s face it, working from home is awesome, but there are distractions wherever you look. Linen closets to be reorganized, laundry to fold, errands to run, right?

As a virtual assistant, we are often asked to manage big projects for a client. It might be migrating them to a new email system, building a new website, or moving them to a cloud-based solution to manage their business.

While big projects can be fun and exciting, it’s easy to become...

When you’re a Virtual Assistant caring for other entrepreneur’s businesses, it’s easy to neglect your own.

However, tolerating issues that you are tripping on, day in and day out, will get in the way of your day-to-day success – and sabotage your ability to grow and scale...

From time to time, when you’re first starting out as a virtual assistant, it’s not uncommon to find yourself with more time on your hands than work. When that happens, I like to take a look around my business and play a little game with myself called “if my business doubled...

When marketing your business, it’s important to stay in touch with your network. Staying top of mind is one of the keys to getting referrals (my favorite type of client).

Staying in touch can take many forms, but an underutilized, highly effective way, is sending handwritten notes via snail...

When you’re just starting out as a Virtual Assistant, one of the scariest things are the ever-powerful “what ifs.”

You know … What if the client asks me this? What if the client asks me that? What if I don’t know? What do I say?

Virtual Assistants are problem...

I attribute a large part of my success as a virtual assistant to being super-easy to work with. That means that I often put my clients’ preferences ahead of my own.

I’m not talking about getting taken advantage of or being mistreated. What I’m talking about is thinking about...

Staying in touch with the people you know is a great way to get clients and grow your business. In order to do that, you’ll need to have their email addresses organized, in one place, and ready to use.

You’ll want your list to be as large as possible, to make the biggest impact when...