Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant

When you’re working as a Virtual Assistant, you spend lots of time supporting your client’s businesses. But it can be easy to neglect your own.

If you make a plan and check in with it every week, you can not only produce great client work, but also grow your business as well....

When you’re a Virtual Assistant, information comes from clients in a variety of ways. Some information is verbal during a phone conversation, other arrives via email, some may come via a project management system that your client is using.

Whatever the source, with information pouring in,...

 As a Virtual Assistant, finding new time-saving tools is the best – and I found a new one this week that I can’t wait to share with you.

Did you know that you can create email templates in Gmail? I had no idea and I love this!

Here’s how to set them up and use them:

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At the beginning of life as a Virtual Assistant, it may seem like you’ll never have enough work. But things can change quickly. When they do, and you bring on a steady stream of new clients, you may be surprised by how quickly your work can outstrip your available time.

This is a tricky...

When you’re a Virtual Assistant, working from home, it can be difficult to stay focused.

On some days (especially the sunny ones!), it can seem impossible; everything except your computer is calling your name.

When it gets difficult to focus, here are some tips for staying in your seat:

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When you work as a Virtual Assistant, your business depends on you getting the work done. When things are going well, it’s pretty easy to handle the day-to-day. But when life throws a curveball, it can be difficult to navigate.

Recently, life threw me several big curveballs...

As Virtual Assistants, we juggle tasks and deadlines constantly, re-prioritizing our work all day long. It can be overwhelming without a good system to manage it. Even worse – you can overlook something important.

Here’s how I organize my calendar to make sure I don’t miss a...

When you first start out, it’s easy to get by with “back of the envelope” gear: a spare computer, an old notebook, a corner of the kitchen table.

Don’t do that! These tools don’t allow you to be dynamic and to expand. As you get busier with more and more clients,...

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...