You know, in the busy-ness of our lives, even in running our own businesses, it's sometimes easy to lose sight of our blessings. In this case, just being able to work at home. I had to be up at 5am today. That's not much earlier than a normal morning for me. I'm often awake at 5.30 as I take my husband to the train station some mornings but other mornings I get to sleep in till 7am because he is working at home too :-) Today I was taking the son of a Canadian friend to the airport. He'd been … [Read more...]
A non-negotiable thought…
Hi everyone, we're back from the Australian VA Conference and I think this would have to be the best one yet. They've all been good but they get better and better! Below you can see a photo of the group at the end of the first day - we were definitely having a good time. I plan to share with you some of the lessons learnt at AVAC 2012 and the first one I have to share with you is one that was re-iterated by several speakers during the two-day event. Attending professional development events … [Read more...]
New Virtual Assistant Forum
Over the past month I've been setting up a new board forum for Virtual Assistants. While it has been primarily built with ACS members in mind, there is a portion of the forum that is open to any and all VAs. It is the VA Directory Forum and you are invited to come and check it out. While the membership and number of posts are low there currently, I expect it will grow quite quickly once the word is out. We have an active forum at yahoogroups (with over 1400 members) but there are some who … [Read more...]
eziStart Social Media
Some of you will be aware that I'm a member of a local BNI chapter as their Virtual Assistant representative. One of the members there, who is the resident website designer came up with a brilliant idea some months ago called eziStart. The idea is that a number of services is provided by a small select group of service providers to help people get set up and started in their businesses. These services include: web design, logo design, copy-writing for the website, video and social media. I'm … [Read more...]
How do I become a Virtual Assistant?
I get asked this question often and thought I'd share some hints and tips on things you can do if you would like to pursue this career. First you must have good computer skills but not only that, a good knowledge of how to do things online as well. They're not difficult things but if you don't know how to do them, then they can complicate your working day. Things like knowing how to upload or download files, attach files to email, send a large file to a client when it's too large to send via … [Read more...]
Virtual Assistants – Network or Agency?
I often get new VAs, or those planning to become a VA, contacting me to find out whether they should be joining my VA Network, or for advice about another group they are thinking of joining. I don't mind people contacting me to ask these questions and I'm always happy to help and give guidance. Ultimately the decision is their's but I like to give them things to think about, to help them with their decision-making. Let's look first at some definitions of these two words. On … [Read more...]
Competition winners
I haven't forgotten! Just had a busy few weeks. With the Australian VA Conference almost upon us, plus a regular workload, not to mention other things happening in my life (I have a daughter getting married in a few weeks) life has been extremely busy. However, here are the winners from the competition posts during March. Congratulations to the winners. Please get in touch with me via the contact form on this site with your contact details so I can ensure you get your prize. Thank you. Week … [Read more...]
Learnings in the VA Industry
The Australian VA Conference is literally only 3 weeks away - well, a bit less than that as it will start 3 weeks today. eek! Not that far away! I can tell you the AVAC committee and I are working behind the scenes to get everything ready for you and in place, and we are in regular contact with our presenters. The winners for the recent competitions will be announced very soon - I've had others involved in helping me choose the winners. So hang tight, you'll hear soon. In the meantime, I'd … [Read more...]
Australian VA Conference only a month away!
It's not long now till the 3rd Annual VA Conference takes place. It doesn't seem that long since the last one and here it is again. Are you ready for it? Have you booked yet? Click on the image below to find out full details and register today. It's not too late and we would love to have you join us! Here is just some of the feedback we got from delegates at the previous event. Great conference! Very insightful and made some wonderful contacts. Will definitely attend again My first … [Read more...]
