virtual assistant
Free gifts for VAs on Administrative Professionals Day
Today is Administrative Professionals Day - to celebrate we’re giving away one free gift each hour to virtual assistants who post on our Facebook fan page.
If you want to participate, just post on the page what your area of specialty is - what type of clients you work for (for example, business owners, real estate [...]
Learn How to Set Up a Nurture Program
Are you a virtual assistant?
Would you like to learn a new service you can offer to clients?
A nurture marketing program is something virtually every business needs.
- It’s work that needs to be done every month, so you get steady income.
- It has a lot of value for your clients because it helps them bring [...]
What Can A Virtual Assistant Do For Me?
I get asked this question a lot.
The short answer is that a virtual assistant can help you with almost any administrative task.
Of course, it’s a little more complicated than that.
Ideal tasks for virtual assistants are those that don’t require deep knowledge about your business, don’t need a lot of explanation or training, do need [...]
Interviewing Tips and Techniques
Interviewing can be fun. Or one of the most time-consuming and frustrating parts of the outsourcing process.
Choose fun.
Use screening and preliminary interviews to cut back the the number of people you interview to a minimum. Then use your time on the phone with them wisely - listening more than you talk - so you get [...]
Need Marketing Project Ideas?
This week’s free template is a checklist of marketing projects that you can outsource to a virtual assistant or marketing freelancer.
Some are simple and easy to outsource; others require a fair bit of knowledge about your business and would be more suitable for someone who has been working for you for awhile.
If you’re working on [...]
What Do You Need Most?
Ever since we launched the Help Without Hiring Toolkit, we’ve been hearing from people who are interested in partnering with us.
We’ve talked to companies that provide virtual assistants, people who do training for virtual assistants, organizations that match freelancers with gigs, consultants who help businesses use virtual teams, software companies that offer collaboration tools [...]
