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 […]
Category: How to be a VA
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
40 x VA Articles
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