You too could have a 6-figure income…

We’ve all had these emails in our inbox.  The ones promising financial freedom, a Ferrari in the garage of your mansion, days spent playing on your private beach with the children…  All yours for the minuscule investment of $999/month! Now most of us hit the delete button – but what if what the virtual assistant […]

Virtual Assistant Business or VA job?

Expand Your Virtual Assistant Team

Many people dream of becoming a virtual assistant, being their own boss, and having the freedom to only take on clients and projects they love. What they don’t realise, though, is that there is a huge difference between building a virtual assistant business and being self-employed as one. Business owners scale their income. Self-employed people […]

Being bigger as a virtual assistant doesn’t always mean better!

small but perfectly formed

Bigger doesn’t always mean better as a Virtual Assistant.  Back when I started my virtual assistant business, I fondly imagined once I’d got the business up and running, I’d hand the reins over to someone else and franchise different areas or specialities…whilst I’d lie on a beach somewhere! But in reality it was impossible to […]

Subcontractors looking for work…

subcontractor VA

We’ve had a few requests recently to put a call out for subbies – there’s a few people who happily regularly hire subcontractors in their businesses, and would be happy for people to approach them looking for work…  We’re collecting these in and we’ll be publishing soon – feel free to skip any parts which […]

So you want to be a subcontractor virtual assistant?

average subcontract virtual assistant rate

(Or how much a VA’s virtual assistant gets paid!) “They’re paying HOW MUCH for a virtual assistant subcontractor???”  Yes, the outraged exclamations on Facebook Groups for a subcontract virtual assistant job this week raised a lot of eyebrows…  But you know, the virtual assistants doing these subcontract jobs aren’t necessarily doing the same job as […]

Outsourcing Masterclass

Virtual Assistant outsourcing subcontractor pack

Hiring Your First VA – Outsourcing Masterclass When I hired my first VA, I made mistakes – BIG mistakes.  It took me hours and hours and hours to set her up.  It seemed like I was wasting time by explaining how to do stuff, and it would be quicker if I just did it myself.  […]

Virtual Assistant Terms & Conditions

How to create profitable ethical business relationships using clear terms of trade WEBINAR: Weds 30 Nov @ 8pm Register now It is easy to think of terms of trade as a ‘compliance’ issue.  Something you spent as little time on as you can (and as little money) and then get on with your work. Do […]

VA Horror Stories.

Virtual assistant halloween

In honour of Halloween we asked you to share your VA horror stories…  Some were happy to be named, others were happy to shame the VAs in question…  And some would rather just not be identified!