As a virtual assistant myself for several years, I was very interested to see what Tina Forsyth had to bring to the table in her book, Becoming An Online Business Manager. Well, for me, this is the way I have been conducting business, however, didn’t realize to assign this title for the [...]

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Recently a team member quoted a client for a job and she secured the work.  However only a couple of days later another member advised she’d also quoted for the job but had been told that someone else had given a much lower quote and secured the work. She couldn’t work out how someone could [...]

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I’ll probably get a bit of ‘hate mail’ for this one, but I’m going to say it here anyway.
I received a phone call from a lady who had seen my advert in the Yellow Pages and she wanted to know how she could become one of the people on that list and do work from [...]

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Periodically on the Virtual Assistant forums we discuss items that relate to how the tax department would view us if certain scenarios arise. One of those is the number of clients we should have or the how much we’re earning from clients.  While the figures and percentages may differ from country to country, I believe [...]

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Today Virtual Assistants are often approached by scammers to do things that relate to nothing more than money-laundering or passing on parcels that are illegal in one way or another. It means we need to keep our wits about us as we assess each approach individually.
Many of us get the emails offering us ‘jobs’ whereby [...]

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In April 1996 I began the southern hemisphere’s first online network of its kind, originally as homebased secretaries and then we adopted the term ‘Virtual Assistant’ as we saw it take hold worldwide and recognised that what we were doing was exactly that - providing virtual assistance to clients all over the world.
Being based in [...]

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