I recently followed a thread on one of the forums I frequent that told the story of a virtual assistant contacted by a potential client who was actually shopping around for the lowest price during their consultation call.
While I think it’s rather rude to be doing price negotiations with several professionals while on a consultation [...]
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Did you Resolve to Grow a Successful Business?
Today is the first Monday of the New Year. I think any of us whom own and operate our own business would say that we always resolve to be more successful in the coming year. In an effort to assist you with that task, I’ve worked hard over the past few weeks in order to [...]
Why Do I use the Headway Theme for Wordpress?
I did some work on a client blogsite yesterday. That in itself isn’t anything new, since a majority of my clients utilize my blogsite services on a regular basis. What was a bit different was the fact that my client’s site was using the Thesis theme.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve used Thesis on sites [...]
VA Survival Series #12
VA Survival Series #12
I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! We’ve made it to the 12th and final installment of the VA Survival Series. I hope you’ve found it helpful to you and your virtual assistant business.
As I was writing this series, I realized that only so much information can go [...]
VA Survival Series #11
#11- Taking Care of Business
There’s more involved in taking care of business than just providing services to clients. You should also take the
Business Assessment
When is the last time as a virtual assistant you sat down and truly assessed your strengths and weaknesses? And is it important?
I believe it’s vitally important to do a self assessment [...]
VA Survival Series #10
#10- Taking Care of YOU
As a business owner and most likely the sole employee, one of the most overlooked things you’re in danger of doing is taking care of yourself.
The following items are an important part of taking care of yourself.
SUPPORT SYSTEM
A strong support system is important for a solo entrepreneur. Your support system consists [...]
VA Survival Series #9
#9- Time Management
Since most virtual assistant businesses are based on billable hours, keeping track of time and managing it is important to finding success.
KEEPING TRACK
There are plenty of time tracking options available, all you have to do is choose one. Some can be found within other programs or applications. For example if you use a [...]
VA Survival Series #8
#8- The First Client
It sure seems like we’ve addressed a lot before getting to this point, doesn’t it? While the preceding 7 posts have addressed issues that might not be considered directly client related, I believe that not addressing them before signing your first client is one element that can cause the business to fail. [...]
VA Survival Series #7
#7- Check Yourself
As you conduct your business, it’s easy to get so caught up in the day to day activities that you can miss some important personal things that can spell the difference between the success and failure.
Professionalism
In this age of social media, just how important is professionalism anyway? Don’t other work from home business [...]
VA Survival Series #6
#6- Get Noticed
Sometimes, no matter how much networking your doing, you just have to do something that gets your business noticed so that it stands out from the crowd. Below are some ideas on how to get your virtual assistant business noticed.
Give stuff away
Sometimes all it takes to get noticed is to give something of [...]