Today, on our forum at ‘Virtual Assistants International Group’, a member shared some challenges she was having in getting her business off the ground. This wasn’t a rare comment, we’ve had others say similar before; they’ve come to seek help.
What was really special, and important, is the way the community rallied round to support […]

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I’m usually up early checking for messages that have come in overnight via email, whilst having my breakfast and first coffee for the day.  However, it’s rare I answer client emails early, preferring to keep them within business hours, so I can spend time networking with forums and friends during my reading time instead.
However this […]

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I was attending a meeting one evening and it was brought to the attention of the audience from the stage that I run a VA network.  I was thrilled and got a number of people asking for my business card afterward and wanting to know more about the services we (VAs) offer.
Then one lady sought […]

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We had an interesting conversation at our VA forum a couple of days ago.  A man who had placed a job request with our team, seeking Aussie based VAs a couple of weeks ago, then proceeded to email all those who responded, plus others from our team, with a promotion for a new product coming […]

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Blogs are a great way for sharing information and encouraging interactive discussion with your audience but many new VAs find the concept daunting and see it as just one extra thing in a long list of things they need to learn and get up to speed with.
I’ve recently written a book called “Blogging Basics” and […]

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Have you noticed that when you plan to make changes to something, and I mean big changes, that suddenly everyone else (read clients) have projects on the boil too?
For months I’ve been planning a shift from the shoppingcart service I was using to another one, for a variety of reasons.  One of those being the […]

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