Virtual Assistance Budget Conundrum Solved: 3 Ways to Create Value With Just a Few Hours a Month
Every virtual assistant wants to create results for her client. Every client wants the same. But when the client’s budget is tight, what kind of outcomes can you realistically expect for only 5 or 10 hours a month?
This is where a lot of client-VA relationships go sour. Yet a lot of good things can come [...]
Outsourcing Brain Teaser: Where Does Virtual Assistance Go On the Financials?
As the virtual assistance industry evolves so are the service portfolios being offered by VAs. That is, today’s veteran virtual assistant is much more than a task master; she is an efficiency expert possessing specialized skills and knowledge that enable her clients to do much more than simply “offload” their to-do lists. A good VA [...]
Who Can Ya Trust? Lessons in Virtual Outsourcing and Pizza.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to outsourcing is the trust factor. I know this because I myself have outsourced to a virtual assistant who gave me numerous reasons to distrust her. In the end I cut ties with that VA and replaced her with someone that didn’t leave me in a cold sweat when I divulged [...]
What My Virtual Assistants Actually DO For Me (When No One is Looking)
I’m not sure why it hasn’t occurred to me before when scrambling for working on post ideas for this VA blog, but wouldn’t it be cool to get an inside look at what some of us biz peeps have our trusty Virtual Assistants actually do for us each day? Like a straight-up list of the [...]
Get Your Feet Off the Ground and Your Head in the Cloud: My Favorite Cloud Computing Tools of All Time
Not long ago, Virtual Assistants offered phone, email and fax as their key tools for working with clients. Today, however, “working in the cloud” offers small business owners and their team members–outsourced or in-house–a dizzying array of online tools for collaborating, communicating and simply getting more done despite the miles that may lie between them. [...]
