Periodically home based operators become targets for ’shady’ clients, those who seem really nice and genuine, or perhaps helpless, but end up being something completely different. They will start off enquiring about services and will send a test sample of something to be done to see if you can carry out the work adequately. […]

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I knew this day is celebrated the world over, but I didn’t know it was actually an official public holiday. Perhaps we need to look at this in Australia too . I’ve just seen an article that indicates it is actually a national holiday and that the country comes to a standstill. Perhaps, one day […]

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It’s always good when another blogger makes reference to what you’ve been doing and on this occasion, I’ve been interviewed by Donna Hamer of WealthyOnlineWomen. Why not drop over to her blog and see what she has to say? Like me, Donna is an Australian Woman Blogger and we found each other […]

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The Virtual Assistant Industry is coming of age, and with it a celebration of the industry and all that being a part of it entails! If you are a Virtual Assistant, or perhaps planning to be one, or maybe you are wanting to learn more about how the industry can help you in your […]

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The team and I were having an interesting discussion yesterday about a job that had been posted via a vacancies list at a well known organisation, and also about approaches by email. There is concern these days about which ones are genuine and which ones are illegal. My response follows:
“If it has anything […]

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I belong to a number of chat forums, some relate to the VA industry, some are other business related, some software, and a few more that are connected to personal interests.
What disturbs me the most is that on any of the chat forums that are business related in some way, people continue to post to […]

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