Over the past few months we’ve seen an increasing number of new virtual assistants coming to join our chat forum and many of them start asking about transcription work – they want to know about the software to use, how much to charge, and how can they get experience?
I wonder what the fascination is for [...]

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I often get phone calls from prospective clients or emails from new VAs asking what the ’standard rate’ is for carrying out particular jobs.  I do understand their question but they haven’t really thought about what they’re asking.
When you’re buying a product such as a book, software or other things then there are often ‘recommended [...]

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The trouble with not being at full capacity for awhile means eventually you have to catch up! 44 minutes ago …at full capacity for awhile means eventually you have to catch up.
It’s been a long almost 5 months.  5 months of coping after losing a family member.  5 months of wondering why, [...]

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Continuing on in our recent series…
Using free accounts such as hotmail, yahoo, etc for their email address.
Domains are very cheap to purchase and even if you don’t yet have your own website, there is no reason why you can’t have your own domain (to reflect your name or your business name) for your email. This [...]

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Last year I wrote about two different situations where the VA community grouped together to help one of its own.  One was when a VA shared on her challenges and others rallied round to help her.  The other was when I, myself, was going through a family tragedy and so many once again, rallied round [...]

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I noticed this afternoon that someone has chosen to use my old email address to spam people. I got the first hint when a bounce back came to me saying it was stuck in a loop – it was addressed to my old address. Checking my spam filter shows there are heaps of returned messages [...]

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