Specialist Niches: Emma of Scriptrix-em – Virtual Legal Secretary
As part of our Specialist Niches section, we’ve spoken to VAs who have unusual or specialist niches. Your name and age? My name is Emma Freeman and I am (gulp) 41. I am a Virtual Legal Secretary with 25 years’ legal and medico-legal experience.
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Virtual Assistants and Law Firms
We are in the midst of a technological revolution and suddenly everyone has access to the newest and latest technology. School children have smart phones with more computing power than the computers that put the first rocket on the moon. Despite this abundance of new technology there is still a lack of acceptance by some […]
Typing Tips: Specialising in a niche
If you aspire to be an excellent virtual assistant offering typing services, we’re running a series of tips on how to impress your clients. This is the last in the series, but if you’d like to read more just click TYPING on the right hand category menu! Specialising in a niche Being in a niche […]
Unusual Niches: Patty of Time Is Of The Es-Cents
As part of our series of specialist VAs and their unusual niches, I interviewed Patty Dost whose niche is particularly relevant to any VA who doesn’t like “selling” to clients who don’t understand what a virtual assistant does. What struck me about Patty’s niche is that I know lots of VAs who would find this […]
SVA Premier: Dec 2011 Developing your niche
What is a niche and why do you need one? Well first off, it helps you to target specific types of businesses – use the kind of language they use, pitch services to them which they are likely to need, and show off your expertise in their field. And secondly, for the clients it allows […]
Specialist Niche: The Writer’s Virtual Assistant
As part of our specialist niche virtual assistants series, Sarah Cruikshank offered to share her expertise in helping writers and journalists. It’s a great match for a VA, as their workload often fluctuates or is on a freelance basis. Over to Sarah…
Specialist Niche: Travel PA
John Guinn of The Holiday Hut has a specialist niche as a Travel PA for his clients – if it’s something you’ve thought of or been asked about by your clients, here’s John’s Top Tips: Your client wants to go away and has asked you to deal with it. Now you have one big advantage […]
Specialist Niche: IFAs – Nikki Thurston of Cloud 9 Admin
Nikki got in touch with us and asked if she could share her specialist niche – it seemed logical to use her financial background to find new clients, and it’s worked out really well! If you would like to feature your own specialist niche, please get in touch.
Planning a conference?
Our good friends over at Trinity Conferences have joined with SVA to help virtual assistants organising conferences or events. They have set up a specialist team to deal with VA enquiries, just email: VAhelpline@trinityconferences.co.uk There are plenty of things to consider when organising a meeting or conference. The following will give you an idea of […]