Tag Archives: virtual assistant

A ‘Gift’ for Virtual Professionals

It’s the holiday season, so it only seems right that I ‘give a little gift’ to the Virtual Assistant community.
In the spirit of the Twelve Days of Christmas, I’ll be sharing survival tips for virtual assistants from Monday, December 14 through Christmas Day on the blog at Clerical Advantage. These tips were born because of [...]

Virtual Assistant Tip: By All Means, Barter

I’ve found, from my own experience, and from hanging around the virtual assistant forums, that most virtual assistants don’t start their businesses with an advertising budget.
In fact, I’m sure that there are plenty of small start up companies out there in the same boat.  In this economy it’s all about bootstrapping.  Especially for micro and [...]

Virtual Assistants, Are Your Rates Set Correctly?

A while ago I did a post concerning whether or not a new VA should charge less. Regardless of whether they should have to or not, many of them do. But unfortunately they are doing so out of a lack of understanding about setting their business rates, rather than because they feel being new means [...]

S.E.E. Your Way to Clearer Communication with your VA

In my last post here I gave people who work with virtual assistants six tips. My third tip was to communicate clearly. But just what constitutes clear communication in a collaboration with a virtual assistant? How do you know that you’re giving your VA the information they need to do the job? One way is [...]

6 Tips for Clients of Virtual Assistants

As a virtual assistant, I pay particular attention to comments, both good and bad, concerning people who have worked with a VA.  And while I love the success stories I read, I also find a great deal of helpful information in the VA horror stories that surface from time to time.  Stories of miscommunication, sloppy [...]