Live Your Best Life as a Virtual Assistant
As Virtual Assistants, we juggle tasks and deadlines constantly, re-prioritizing our work all day long. It can be overwhelming without a good system to manage it. Even worse – you can overlook something important.
Here’s how I organize my calendar to make sure I don’t miss a beat.
1. The purple ...
In my experience, on-the-job learning is the best way to acquire new skills as a Virtual Assistant. Creating solutions and working through issues is the best way to really get your head around what matters.
But what if you find yourself with more time than work and you want to improve your skill-se...
We’ve all done it… let someone hire us who’s not a good fit. Sometimes you know right away, other times it takes a while to figure it out.
The only thing worse than firing a client is working with a client who makes your life miserable.
This can spill over into all your work and drive you crazy to...
When you first start out, it’s easy to get by with “back of the envelope” gear: a spare computer, an old notebook, a corner of the kitchen table.
Don’t do that! These tools don’t allow you to be dynamic and to expand. As you get busier with more and more clients, your string and chewing gum set up ...
When talking to your clients, part of your role is to be upbeat and positive. Along the way, of course, they may ask you how you are or inquire about your weekend as the conversation gets started. That’s just common courtesy.
But it’s important to understand that this is not an invitation to launch...
Just because you are capable of a wide range of things, your clients may not know what they are unless you tell them!
Sometimes clients hire a Virtual Assistant for one skill but have no idea what other amazing services that VA has to offer. It’s up to you to let them know.
This way, clients will ...
Last week, I was talking to a fellow Virtual Assistant. She said, in a discouraged voice, “all my clients are referrals, I don’t know what to do about that.”
My first thought was celebrate!
She assumed this was a sign that her marketing wasn’t working (because no new clients were coming to her di...
Working from home and making your own hours are part of what makes being a Virtual Assistant so wonderful.
Working from home is great, but you have to be careful – those freedoms and others like them can come back to bite you if you don’t establish some ground rules for yourself.
With no boss or c...
As Virtual Assistants, most of the time, we work with people we’ve never met. It took me a while to get used to this, particularly since different people can have very different work and communication styles.
Every client is different.
Some prefer emailing me their work, some want to talk to me on...
One of the best things about being a VA is the dress code – or, more accurately, the lack of one. For example, as I type this I am in my sweats and slippers and will not be showering until I exercise later in the day!
But, that doesn’t mean my business, from top to bottom, doesn’t need to look and ...
