Is Your Spouse On Board With Your VA Business?
Most of the time Virtual Assistants are female. There are plenty of male VAs but the fact is most are women (93%) according to our recent survey. Usually, they’re moms, wives, daughters, sisters, and of course best friends too. They’re also neighbours, community...
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Tips to Keep Your Clients Happy
Obviously you want to keep your clients. You work hard to get them and it would be very foolish to waste away the opportunity that a long-term, mutually successful relationship with your clients can provide. So how do you avoid losing clients? Well the first step is...
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Marketing Your VA Business on a Shoestring Budget
If you’re just starting out, or you are finding that you’re short on funds, you may need to find ways to market your virtual assistant business on a shoestring budget. Just because it’s inexpensive doesn’t mean it’s not effective, though. In fact, some of the most...
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10 Ways to Work Full-Time While Managing Your Virtual Assistant Business Part-Time
For those of you working full-time while in the startup phase of your VA business, you can work full-time and manage clients.
With a solid plan in place you can manage your clients the same as a full-time virtual assistant.
Grow Your VA Business with Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Word-of-mouth marketing is the oldest form of marketing that exists, and it’s still very effective. In fact, one of the best ways to get more clients for any business owner is to increase your word-of-mouth marketing efforts. People trust hearing from those whom they...
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How to Identify Your Ideal Client
If Word-of-Mouth marketing doesn’t sound important to you then these facts may shift your mindset. The fact is about 20 percent of all your clients will generate 80 percent of your future income. That is because the other 80 percent aren’t totally in line with your...
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Steps to Create Your VA Business Mission and Vision
There are different reasons to create a business or mission statement for your service based Virtual Assistant business. Sometimes you are creating it to motivate yourself, your business partners and/or your stakeholders like your family. Other times you create a...
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Do You Know Who Your Competition Is?
In order to create a better service based business you really need to know who your audience is and what they are all about. One of the easiest ways to find that out is by studying your competition since they deliver the same or similar services as you do. This due...
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Outsourcing Strategies for the Virtual Assistant
You may have heard about outsourcing done by big companies. The same principles can work for smaller home-based businesses like a Virtual Assistant business that is in need of help. Outsourcing can be of great benefit when you are working by yourself. It is nearly...
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When Should a Virtual Assistant Outsource?
In order to create a successful Virtual Assistant business, you must learn to outsource. By doing that, you can have your outsourcers to do the things you don’t do well, don’t want to do or who can simply do whatever you need done cheaper thereby saving you money....
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