I hope you like the series I’ve been doing on the mistakes VAs make in operating their businesses.  I’ve been getting great feedback – both here at the blog and via email from various people and the list has been growing as I’ve been thinking about it when away from my office and doing other [...]

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Staying in our comfort zone.  We need to be flexible and stretch and bend if we want our businesses to grow.
Technology – where would this industry be without it?   And yet we all get comfortable and set in out ways and get to a point where we feel we don’t want to learn anything new. [...]

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If not, then you could be missing out on a potential client base.
I’ve had a Twitter account for sometime now and it really took me sometime to understand what it is about.  But now I’m hooked!  I couldn’t understand what people were doing or going on about and there are some mundane things there. But [...]

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Offering services that they have no experience in or offering too many services.
Many VAs, particularly newer ones, get carried away by the possibilities of what they can offer clients, not realising that if they cannot provide quality service, they not only do themselves a disservice but the whole industry as well.
It’s important you start with [...]

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I had written about who your target client base should really be and Kylee had commented about volunteering to get experience.  This is something I’ve often written about in the past and I’m glad Kylee raised it.
As business owners to learn new skills and software packages there are costs incurred over and above the learning [...]

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So far we’ve looked at treating your business as a business and having the right mindset; setting rates that are too low; and recognising that clients can be local, they don’t have to be totally virtual.
This 4th mistake relates to the third one in a way.  Many new VAs, particularly those from countries that have [...]

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