Is it important to do Marketing?
Is it important to do marketing? What do you think! Without marketing we may have no businesses at all. Businesses thrive with good marketing and advertising. Marketing should not be […]
How do I get clients?
The words I hear the most from new VAs are “How do I get clients”. I often get the feeling new VA’s expect clients to just appear out of thin […]
Ziggy the Border at 2 years old
This is our Ziggy: The noisiest dog we have ever had, loves to bark and have a conversation and argue with you. She wakes up first with yawning as loud […]
Largest typewriter company in the world
2 NE natives run the largest typewriter company in the world By Mark Zimmaro May 4, 2023 Full credit NorthEast Times https://northeasttimes.com/ https://northeasttimes.com/2023/05/04/2-ne-natives-run-the-largest-typewriter-company-in-the-world/ Philly Typewriter co-owners Bill Rhoda (left) and […]
TAVASA
TAVASA • The Transcribers and Virtual Assistants Association of South Africa, http://tavasa.blogspot.com/ foundered August 2008 and run by Alison Fourie and Gayner Paynter. What is TAVASA: We are a support […]
Social Media
All VAs needs to have some of the following for advertising, marketing and networking on Social Media: A profile on the most popular social media platforms which are LinkedIn, […]
VA Mindset
New VAs NEED to realize that they are no longer employees working for companies. As a VA you are a business owner and are running a real business. Too often […]
Confidence or no confidence!
One of the things I find over and over is a lack of confidence in new VAs. I know you have not run a business before, but you do have […]
Dealing with Clients
Clients are all different, no two are the same. I prefer working for men rather than women. I find that men are more easy going, with women I have found […]
Ziggy the conversationalist
Every morning when someone wakes up Ziggy barks and cries – especially crying – (the person just has to open their eyes and she may not be in the […]
Puppies coming home
Training our border puppies. As each of our borders come home for the first time, as puppies, we first take them from the car to the garden and straight […]
Our Borders Likes and Dislikes
Our Border Collies are all different with different likes and dislikes Lets start with Ziggy our puppy Name Ziggy Age 6 months Siblings Shaggy age 10 and Scrappy age […]
Borders don’t always get the Memo
We find that our borders do not always get the memo. You can see they understand but they don’t always follow what you want them to do, they rather do […]
Who is Scooby?
Scooby 15 years old https://amftyping.co.za/projects/dog-diaries/ Scooby, our cross cocker spaniel, and border collie’s traits: Snores loudly Sleeps like the dead Her tongue is always hanging out, seems too big for […]
Who is Shaggy?
Shaggy – 8 years old https://amftyping.co.za/projects/dog-diaries/ Shaggy, our short-haired border collie’s traits: Shaggy loves cuddles and hugs Very alert Loves his collar that he wears around his neck, makes him […]
Who is Scrappy?
SCRAPPY – 4 Years old Scrappy, our pure breed border collie’s traits: Loves to run On the go non-stop Loves her ball, it’s hers only, and only certain people […]
Scrappy gets her teeth cleaned
So today I got my teeth cleaned at the VET!! THE VET!!! AND THEN THEY LEFT ME THERE, LEFT ME THERE!!! They did come back and get me of course […]
Typing and what it involves
Copy Typing Copy Typing is when you are just typing what is written, this can be hand-written or from PDF. Examples of copy typing are: Books (small books) Contracts […]