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Why You Need a Virtual Assistant
As if you didn’t already know, right? You’re over your eyeballs in work, with so much more to do than you can possibly manage. You need and want to spend more time working your core skills; but...
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What Kind of Outsourcing Will Work for You? It’s All in the Communications
At the heart of every transaction – and transactions are the heart of business – is communication. The level and quality of communications in any and all business interactions directly shapes the...
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Working with Your VA: What Do You Want?
When I was small, our family observed St. Nick’s Day on December 6. We children made our “Pig Lists” on that day, a letter to Santa listing the presents we wanted. It was especially exciting the next...
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Deadbeat Clients: an Occupational Hazard?
Every virtual assistant has to pay serious attention to their business invoicing and altogether too many of us have had to deal with deadbeat clients who simply disappear without paying. Every...
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Your Brain on Holidays
At holiday time, it’s interesting to consider the different ways that people choose to relax. For some, it’s all about the event: the rituals, the experiences, the parties, the activities that bring...
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Staying Organized
Organization is sort of like New Year’s resolutions: everyone likes to do it at first but not many are good at follow through. It’s one thing to catch a wild hair all of a sudden and get organized...
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How to Survive Business Dips
The life of an entrepreneur of any stripe is one of highs and lows, a roller coaster opposing the productive months to long weeks of waiting, during which you juggle the bills and slurp Ramen. Waiting...
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Virtual Assistant as Overcommunicator
How does your company usually communicate? What’s your norm for making yourself understood as you go about your work? The relationship between client and VA especially depends on constant...
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Saying Hello: How to Welcome New Clients
In establishing a virtual assistant and client relationship, one key step is the way the parties say hello to one another. By this I mean, the way they present introductory materials so that the other...
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Routine vs. Initiative for Solopreneurs
Among the many conundrums solo business people must face is the constant question whether to stick with what you’re doing right now or to take some initiative to change and grow. Every business has to...
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