Helping Small Businesses Online Since June 2008
Scheduling appointments is something that we all do on a daily basis. Some prefer using a planner, while the savvy ones use an online calendar like Google Calendar. I personally use both: I add important client consultation and meetings on my daily planner from Belle de Jour. I also add it to my Google Calendar [...]
I have always said that I am very fortunate to have gotten an Internet marketer as my very first client as a virtual assistant. True, I wasn’t a freelancer when I started working for him but even as that company dissolved its VA department, that client remained one of mine. In fact, we have met [...]
In my post “Just Another Set of 2011 Goals for The Virtual Assistant,” I mentioned that I will invest in myself by spending time to learn new skills. And I have been doing that often since the year started. But today, I spent hours honing my video creation and distribution skills. To do that, I [...]
Being a virtual assistant is not easy. There would be times that you’d be swamped with work that you barely have time to take a break, even during weekends and holidays. On my first year, there’d be times when I’d be barely sleeping at all because I took too much work. Other times you’d be [...]
Looking at Craiglist job postings, there is a high demand for online workers who are good at graphics design and drawing. Virtual assistants who are skilled at such would make a killing in times like this. Those are not skilled in this area would do well to acquire drawing or design skills. For those who [...]
One of the benefits of working at home as a virtual assistant is that I don’t have to commute everyday. In the same manner, I don’t have to travel to submit job applications and appear at job interviews. However, I do need to write a good cover letter and eye catching resume. When I graduated [...]
As a virtual assistant, I have worked with U.S. clients who trusted me with their personal information, including their credit card information. Because I was concerned about the security of such confidential and sensitive data, I never stored it in my computer. Instead, I wrote them down in my planner or notebook that I store [...]
My job is cool! I work at home without the pressures of a boss. I can work as little as I want to without someone peering over me, checking to see if I am doing what I am supposed to be doing. I can work as much as I want to without someone worrying about [...]
