(Psst…interested in starting a business as a virtual assistant? There’s a special offer at the bottom of this post. If you’re the impatient sort you can click here.) Do a search for ‘how to become a virtual assistant‘ and you’ll get a slew of information provided by a variety of sources from Entrepreneur .com to…
Have you ever wondered if you could start your own virtual assistant business? Or maybe you’re just curious about what type of requirements or skills are required to be one. I know it’s one of the top ten questions I see hit my e-mail inbox on a regular basis. Which made me think. Maybe I…
You’ve worked hard to start your business. You’ve struggled to find clients and get your business to grow. You’ve worked hard to get where you are. So why are you content to stop there? Lots of small business owners lose sight of the business ‘forest’ due to all the trees. And by trees I mean…
How important is your website to your service provider business? Amazingly I still see some ‘so-called’ experts telling people it’s not all that important. In the recent past I’ve overheard at least two conversations in which the expert told the new business owner to ‘just get a free website or Facebook page‘. If I hadn’t…
Starting your own virtual assistant business requires more than just a desire to make money working from home. Ask yourself the following questions and answer honestly. Too many individuals look at becoming a VA as a way to make easy money from home, but the truth is, running your own business is anything but easy. …
I love being a virtual assistant. I love educating others about virtual assistance. And I love helping new virtual assistants get started. With that said, I also believe that if you’re thinking about becoming a virtual assistant there are some things that you shouldn’t need to be taught. The whole concept of a virtual assistant…
If you follow me on Twitter you’ll have noticed that for the past week or so I’ve sent out a tweet that looks like the one below every day: The virtual-assistants Daily is a compilation of tweets, links, RT’s and information shared on Twitter by the other virtual assistants I follow there. I started it…
I recently stumbled across a tweet that read: “Interns are actually way better than virtual assistants”. The link led to an article giving the reasons for the bold proclamation. So of course I followed the link and read the article. As a disclaimer, I actually do believe that there are times when an intern fits…
Virtual Assistants provide business to business services. They own and maintain their own businesses. So would you be surprised to find out that many of them are providing services in such a way that the IRS would actually classify them as ‘remote employees’ and as such their clients are in danger of owing taxes for…
During my previous career there was a point in time when I was called upon to assist my employers in finding someone to replace me as I prepared to move on to another position. I was asked to do several things, from sitting in on interviews to creating training materials to help with the transition. …
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