Do you find yourself spending a lot of time talking with potential customers answering the same questions over and over again? Do you start developing a rapport with a potential client then at the end of the call when you tell them your fees they comment “Oh, but I can get this done in India  [… Read More]

Spend some time  listening to these four graduates of a distance education Virtual Assistant Certification school talk about their work.  You might get some nuggets of information you can apply to your own business. This is really an audio file with just the one image you see below. some of the items discussed are referrals [… Read More]

If you are a Virtual Assistant I’m sure that one of the main reasons you got into this field was the ability to work when and where you want. And sure, we get to work anywhere in our house and backyard where we can connect to our wireless and, yes, we can work at the [… Read More]

Hopefully, at some point during your relationship with your client, you will be encouraging them to create a product of their own from their Website or blog. Remember, unless they have many products or wish to use affiliates (salespeople)to promote the products they don’t really need the expense of a monthly shopping cart. Generally, when [… Read More]

Once you have been in the Virtual Assistance field for a while no doubt you will have lots of projects going on at the same time. And if you don’t use some kind of system you will go nuts. Before I turned to Virtual Assistance I had been a Project Manager for about 5 years [… Read More]