Starting out as a Virtual Assistant – Michelle Shaw
I am Michelle (aka Elle) from Bangor, N. Ireland. I am a newbie VA and will be blogging this year on the ups and downs of starting out as a VA.
Marketing Friday: More tips and tricks for Virtual Assistants
Here are five ideas which you can work on today, Marketing Friday, to get more business next week. Volunteer to help a local community group with their admin. Make sure your SEO is great (for free!) with WebCEO. www.webceo.com Design and build your own website with WordPress or Blogger as a first step. You […]
Who being a Virtual Assistant is not for:
It’s one of the great fallacies – that everyone with a computer can be a virtual assistant. The more seasoned VAs will be falling off their seats laughing at the concept of someone being able to print out some business cards and suddenly become a VA because they know the hard work that goes into […]
The employee mentality
I used to have an employee who came in every morning and answered my cheery “How are you this morning?” with “I’m not dead…yet.” in a deadpan monotone. When he handed in his notice and gave us his company mobile phone back we actually found a diary entry saying “March 15th: Get a life”. Um, […]
Why I Love Being A Virtual Assistant: Fiona of Support4Success
We’ve been looking for VAs to tell us why they started and what they love about being a virtual assistant. Fiona Macpherson of Support 4 Success tells us why she loves being a VA… Hi – my name is Fiona Macpherson and I established Support 4 Success in 2009. In the past I have worked […]