I like to keep watch on various things posted online, as many of us do and it never ceases to amaze me to see someone seeking a ‘virtual assistant’ and then putting the price on what they want to pay. It frequently doesn’t match up - the rate the client wants to pay versus […]

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Chris Conley at Startup or Bust contacted me recently for an interview for his upcoming Blogathon which is now taking place. Why not head on over there and give him some encouragement and read all the interviews he’s done on many different subjects? Mine is interview number 4 out of a total […]

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Skype is frequently used by VAs the world over now to have discussions with clients, participate in seminars, partake of coaching and contact distant family members. Recently on one of the VA forums I belong to there was a question about Skype and how easy it was to use. A VA’s family member […]

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Some months ago (in 2006 actually) we had a few articles come out in Lawyer’s Weekly in Australia and it was good to see the recognition by the legal industry of how Virtual Assistants can assist them in their daily needs.
A new article has just been published by Law Practice Today titled The Virtual Assistant: […]

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I was recently approached by an organisation I’d never heard of to promote their new certification for VAs. Their email was not very clear in explaining what they were promoting and when I went to their website, I found their page for the certification for VAs. However, I decided to decline their request […]

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The above was recently posted by a new member of my VA forum and I decided it would be good to share my answer here as well.
Hi, this is something everyone goes through when starting out and many new VAs do not realise that getting work online is not the only way to get work. […]

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