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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 […]

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

November 22, 2022November 23, 2022AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Tavasa, Uncategorized, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

November 1, 2022November 23, 2022AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, Social Media, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, Social Media, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

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, […]

November 21, 2022November 23, 2022AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, OIVAC, Tavasa, Uncategorized, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

October 21, 2022November 23, 2022How to be a VA, OIVAC, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

July 6, 2020July 9, 2020AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Student Assistance, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

August 16, 2019August 16, 2019AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Social Media, Student Assistance, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants, WordPress Website Design

Why are VAs charging low rates?

Why are VAs charging low rates? This is just my opinion, many might disagree with me but we are all allowed our own opinions, comments and discussions are always […]

March 8, 2019July 6, 2019AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

To Quote or not

My procedure for submitting a Quotation to a potential Client When a client contacts you and asks for a quotation, please do not simply email back with a price/rate. Firstly […]

January 5, 2019August 24, 2020AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Office Administration, Student Assistance, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

Document Formatting

Definitions of document formatting: Formatted text: is any text that contains special formatting such as font size, font colour, bold, italic, styles, etc. When copying text, formatted text is […]

January 4, 2019September 5, 2019AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

Book Typing

I get lots of contacts requiring Books to be typed. This is the process that I have found after many years of providing typing services. Deadline: All authors have […]

August 22, 2018October 10, 2018AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Childhood Memories, My Services, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

The maid RETIRED!!! NOW WHAT???????????

I run a full time Virtual Assistant business with many clients. I do not have time for housework, but recently the maid has retired. I now have to do my […]

June 12, 2018August 16, 2018AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Virtual Assistants

What makes a great Presentation

Published on March 19, 2018 Robynne Shields Solopreneur, PowerPoint Presentation Guru, Virtual Assistant, Gig Freelancer 5 articles Well, a great speaker! True. Having said that, even a great speaker needs […]

March 27, 2018July 24, 2018AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

How I became a Virtual Assistant

When I left the corporate world my aim was to start up a Typing business from home. I had no idea how to do this. The Internet was new, […]

February 12, 2018August 16, 2018AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

WhatsApp Communication

Communication with Clients and Sub-Contractors is so important and today, it is made easier by social media technology. Most people have access to Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, WhatsApp etc, so […]