by Francis | Aug 24, 2011 | VA Business
When starting your VA business, evolving from a 9-5 employee (where you don’t make the decisions and merely react to orders from your boss), into an independent business owner (where you make the decisions and give the orders) is sometimes a difficult thing to do....
by Francis | Aug 16, 2011 | VA Business
Working in a virtual services environment, is extremely satisfying because you can create your own destiny and work your dream career. Creating this dream career however, all starts with identifying what skills you already have or want to obtain. Then translating that...
by Francis | Aug 10, 2011 | VA Business, Virtual Assistant
Whether you are just starting out, or being in business for quite some time, one of the biggest problems we all run into at some point is … ….“running out of time”. If you are a solo-preneur, working alone on your business, there are so many different things that...
by Francis | May 19, 2011 | VA Business
OK, I want to tell you a story that actually happened and that inspired this post about telephone etiquette. For a while now I am struggling with some technical integrations on my website and at last decided I need some help. So I phoned a lady who came highly...
by Francis | Apr 5, 2011 | VA Business
There are literally hundreds of different tools for Virtual Assistants to use in their business. For me however, these tools should comply to one or both of the following criteria. It should allow VAs to be more productive and enable them to collaborate easily with...
by Francis | Jan 24, 2011 | VA Business, Virtual Assistant
Becoming a successful Virtual Assistant entails a combination of many different factors However, there are two secret elements that will enhance your chance of success – two “softer” elements that are mostly overlooked since they are not part of the normal...