I really feel for the new Virtual Assistant as many are struggling to develop an identity, and with that, a name for their businesses so that they can be seen as inviduals and not copycats. But sometimes I think they have got it a bit confused or in the wrong order. A business name does not have to be established at the beginning of your business - it can be done later. As far as I know, in most regions, you can legally operate under your own name - which is individual for the most part, and … [Read more...]
National Secretaries Day – when is it exactly?
Around the world this day has different names: Administrative Professionals Day National Secretaries Day National Admin Professionals Day National Professional Admin Officers Day and many others. And it has different dates around the world too. In Australia radio stations and florists often get it mixed up, but this isn't entirely their fault. The calendar publishers also get it wrong - taking the date from the US instead of checking with the originators of this special day here in … [Read more...]
What Dictionary Are You Using?
I saw a post recently by someone online who was discussing the differences in the meaning and spelling of a particular word - one of the variations had an 'e' on the end. They were saying the two words had two different meanings and I would have loved to leave a comment but the blog in question was closed to comments. I looked up the word in question and found that the word, both with an 'e' and without still had the same meaning - it just depended on which dictionary you checked and also … [Read more...]
Transcriptions – Get all the details II
When starting out it's often easy to get so excited when a new client comes along, that we forget to ask for all the information. Sometimes it's simply a case of not knowing what information we need - till we start the job, or perhaps until it's delivered, assumed finished. A discussion recently on my forum was about transcription work for a client. Some felt transcription was simply a typed copy of a voice recording, others felt it should have some formatting. Some talked about it being … [Read more...]
Transcriptions – Get all the details I
My next post will talk about getting all the details about the required format of a typed transcription but what about receiving the job in the first place? I often get people filling out a job request on my site or phoning me to find out about the cost of getting a transcription done. However they give me little other information initially and I have to ask questions. There are a number of things that needs to be known when organising a quote for transcription work: What format is the … [Read more...]
The lucky winners of my anniversary giveaway
Well, just what you've been waiting for. Here are the list of winners for the 14th anniversary giveaway of last week. I don't have names for most, just email addresses so if the owners would like to contact me via email with their postal addresses I'll post the book of their choice (from my bookshop) to them. To protect their email addresses I'm not putting them in full. They are: beautystop at iprimus lorna_sue at hotmail rome69 at sbcglobal janica at adminismith stolenkiss at … [Read more...]
Last chance giveaways for Virtual Assistants
Today marks the last day for my Virtual Assistant Giveaways spree to celebrate 14 years in business. There have been offers of books, web hosting and VA Coaching. This applies to VAs in any country so don't make the mistake of thinking you are not eligible. If you are operating as a Virtual Assistant, or are in the process of setting up to operate as one, then all you need to do is subscribe to my blog and follow any other requirements on the various blog posts of the past week, and you could … [Read more...]
Virtual Assistant Giveaways
If you've been watching my blog this past week you'll have read that I'm celebrating 14 years in business. But if you are reading this post via Google Alert or other means, you may have missed the excitement! I have gifts for subscribers to my blog - you have till 31st March to subscribe. I'll be going through the subscription list after 31st March to pick out the lucky recipients. To see what you could be eligible for, check out these posts: My Anniversary but I have a Gift For You More … [Read more...]
My Anniversary Week – one more gift
I thought it would be good to finish off this week of anniversary posts with one more gift from me. Some of you will be aware that I also provide web hosting services. This grew out of a client's need for support a few years ago - the host I was using at the time offered me a dedicated VDS so I could administer my client hosting accounts and maintain them on my own without having to wait for him to respond to support calls to set up new accounts. This was a good working partnership for me and … [Read more...]
