Those who have been in the Virtual Assistant industry for sometime will be aware of our annual Online International Virtual Assistants Convention run in May each year.
This event runs for 3 days and is entirely online and virtual. We have over 30 speakers from around 7 countries speaking on all sorts of topics and whilst […]

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I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend on the web lately via various blog posts about the Virtual Assistant industry. It seems there are many business owners out there in fear of losing their VAs because they might up and quit or something else might happen. It seems that many look at having a VA […]

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Every blogger loves to have readers and subscribers and I really do appreciate you all. But please, if you subscribe, do not do it with an address that has to have an autoresponder attached to it. By that I mean, consider having a separate address for subscriptions to blogs, newsletters, listservs and forums, and so […]

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A recent discussion at a LinkedIn forum I belong to highlighted the use of country codes when listing phone numbers in emails and on business websites. It was an interesting discussion and what was brought to light was the fact that many people in the US (at least on this forum of 8,000+ people) […]

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Some people have ‘wordless Wednesdays’ on their blogs and just post a photo. Well, I have a photo to post and it’s Tuesday and I won’t be wordless about it either. I want you to drink in this beautiful sight.
The doorbell rang and I thought it was a client who was overdue and I […]

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Saw an interesting post a little while ago with the title ‘The Tale of Two Assistants‘. It was apparently about an ‘actual assistant’ and a ‘virtual assistant’. I wasn’t sure what they meant exactly by the ‘actual assistant’ as it seems that the ‘actual assistant’ had other clients anyway, so it would seem […]

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