Whether you’re a new Virtual Assistant or have been at it awhile, sometimes our business just needs a little oomph. We reach a stalemate and don’t know where to go next. Yet maybe the money isn’t there to hire an expensive designer or pay for a lot of advertising. There are several frugal tricks to ...
How do you explain what you do as a Virtual Assistant? When somebody asks and you start to explain, do their eyes sort of glaze over and they just nod like a bobble head before quickly retreating to some other conversation? Think about your elevator speech. A quick sentence or two that sums up exactly what ...
Maybe you struggle with the constant work-family balance as a virtual assistant (…or maybe that’s just me?) Keeping everything up and running, meeting work deadlines, spending time with your family – the list never ends. Have you ever considered including your kids in your virtual assistant work? Not all the time of course, and maybe ...
School is out and summer break is officially here at my house! What’s a VA Mom to do with the kids at home now? Our routine goes out the window with summertime, yet my client responsibilities and deadlines haven’t gone away. Here is my summer strategy, subject to change of course (ha!): Adjust my work ...
Only a few weeks of school left! Is anyone else in “getting by” mode? I’m doing good just to sign the field trip permission slip, let alone remember to send a sack lunch on the right day. That is, IF I even manage to glance through the school papers to see the permission slip. And ...