I had an interesting email discussion with a member of my team in the past week. She's trying to decide whether or not to renew her membership or whether to return to the workforce. She's only been a member for just under six months, so not very long. I had to ask her some questions to get an idea of where she is at and what has taken place at her end to know what to advise her - she was obviously seeking advice, rather than just tell me she wasn't staying with the team. A number of items … [Read more...]
Jeckyll & Hyde Clients
Periodically home based operators become targets for 'shady' clients, those who seem really nice and genuine, or perhaps helpless, but end up being something completely different. They will start off enquiring about services and will send a test sample of something to be done to see if you can carry out the work adequately. The trouble is they will do the same to about a half dozen operators, and end up getting their entire job done - for gratis, because there will be a reason why the test … [Read more...]
Administrative Professionals Day a Holiday?
I knew this day is celebrated the world over, but I didn't know it was actually an official public holiday. Perhaps we need to look at this in Australia too . I've just seen an article that indicates it is actually a national holiday and that the country comes to a standstill. Perhaps, one day in the future, the new International Virtual Assistants Day will be seen in the same light! Click on the article title below to read about it. What a day; we need to celebrate KMT … [Read more...]
Interview On Another Blog
It's always good when another blogger makes reference to what you've been doing and on this occasion, I've been interviewed by Donna Hamer of WealthyOnlineWomen. Why not drop over to her blog and see what she has to say? Like me, Donna is an Australian Woman Blogger and we found each other via another Australian blog site that was talking about the top Australian blogs - we'd both noted the lack of Australian women mentioned. But that's another story... … [Read more...]
Exciting New Event in May 2006!
The Virtual Assistant Industry is coming of age, and with it a celebration of the industry and all that being a part of it entails! If you are a Virtual Assistant, or perhaps planning to be one, or maybe you are wanting to learn more about how the industry can help you in your business, then the Online International Virtual Assistants Convention is just for you! You'll see the logo/link to the right of this screen - just click on that and it will take you direct to the event, where you can … [Read more...]
Client or Employer?
The team and I were having an interesting discussion yesterday about a job that had been posted via a vacancies list at a well known organisation, and also about approaches by email. There is concern these days about which ones are genuine and which ones are illegal. My response follows: "If it has anything to do with processing accounts, handling money on their behalf, being a finance officer or similar - STAY RIGHT AWAY FROM IT. In fact, any offer of a 'job', so to speak, by email, should … [Read more...]
Posting on Chat Forums
I belong to a number of chat forums, some relate to the VA industry, some are other business related, some software, and a few more that are connected to personal interests. What disturbs me the most is that on any of the chat forums that are business related in some way, people continue to post to the forums just like they sending an SMS to a friend or carrying on a phone conversation with a family member. They forget they are in a business forum. Things I recommend you do when … [Read more...]
Maintaining Professionalism 24/7
I belong to the TrumpU forum and post periodically when a topic pushes a hot button. The latest one was about whether spelling and grammar matters on posts. Below is a response from another member of the forum and my answer follows. I was pleased to get encouraging responses thereafter. RE: Thankyou Mr. Trump for getting these Forums going ...Yesterday @ 11:31 PM EST I must disagree with you about not wanting an edit / spellcheck feature on this forum. We all make mistakes typing. This is a … [Read more...]
Steps for operating a blog
As I often share information about using blogs these days I’ve been asked several times, how do you go about it? So, for the benefit of those who wish to learn, and don’t yet fully understand, here are the steps: 1. Go to www.blogger.com and create a username and password if you don’t already have an account (if you are reading this at blogger then print it off, follow the steps and click on the blogger logo at the top left-hand of the screen). 2. Next choose a name for your blog – try … [Read more...]
