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Why are VAs charging low rates?

Posted Aug 16, 2019Aug 16, 2019 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF 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? This is just my opinion, many might disagree with me but we are all allowed our own opinions, comments and discussions are always […]

TAVASA

Posted Jul 6, 2019Aug 23, 2019 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF 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 […]

To Quote or not

Posted Mar 8, 2019Jul 6, 2019 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

Document Formatting

Posted Jan 5, 2019Jul 13, 2019 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Office Administration, Student Assistance, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

Book Typing

Posted Jan 4, 2019Sep 5, 2019 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

Confidence or no confidence!

Posted Nov 1, 2018Jul 19, 2019 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, Social Media, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

VA Mindset

Posted Oct 23, 2018Dec 27, 2018 Alison Fourie1 CommentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Tavasa, Uncategorized, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

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

Posted Aug 22, 2018Oct 10, 2018 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Childhood Memories, My Services, Tavasa, Typing Services, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

What makes a great Presentation

Posted Jun 12, 2018Aug 16, 2018 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

How I became a Virtual Assistant

Posted Mar 27, 2018Jul 24, 2018 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

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, […]

Dealing with Clients

Posted Feb 21, 2018Jul 24, 2018 Alison Fourie10 CommentsPosted in How to be a VA, OIVAC, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

WhatsApp Communication

Posted Feb 12, 2018Aug 16, 2018 Alison FourieLeave a commentPosted in AMF Typing Services, How to be a VA, My Services, Tavasa, Virtual Assistants

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 […]

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