Tag Archives: Danielle Keister

Dear Gritty VA: Do I Have Enough Experience to Be a Virtual Assistant?

April 28, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I only have 2 years experience as an Executive Assistant and 6 years as a Receptionist/Data Entry Clerk. Could I still be a Virtual Assistant? Any suggestions are helpful. –BT Well, it’s not really for me to say. It’s what the marketplace has to say. What I mean is, yes, the Virtual [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: Should I Point Out Errors on Other Virtual Assistant Sites?

April 21, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I can’t tell you the number of times that I have looked at another Virtual Assistant’s website, taken a deep breath, sighed, and just continued reading.  But 5, 10, even 15 minutes later I will still be struggling with whether or not I should have emailed the VA and told them about [...]

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Another Way to Supercharge Your Virtual Assistant Help

April 2, 2010 – 1:41 pm

I was talking with one of the attendees of my Pricing & Packaging business intensive last month who mentioned that she wasn’t sure what to do with a couple clients she wasn’t feeling very energized by. I asked her what the problem was, and she related that she much preferred big picture work, and while [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: What Am I?

March 17, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I am starting out my business and I am not sure what my focus should be and how to market myself. I have several skills/abilities that are not exactly in line with each other. 1. I worked as an executive assistant through college for high ranking military officials so I know that [...]

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Where Do You Get Stuck?

January 19, 2010 – 10:00 am

Wouldn’t it be great if all we had to do was network, have business owners immediately want to work with us and instantly sign on for our retained support without any questions? The reality is that getting to actually work with retained clients takes a bit more effort. You have to get at least some [...]

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Create More Desk Space with These Organizing Tips

November 16, 2009 – 10:00 am

Here’s an article I wrote and published today in “The Portable Business™.” If you’d like to subscribe, go here: Piles aren’t necessarily a bad thing. As long as you are managing them (and not the other way around), they can actually be quite useful. But if you find that they are impeding your progress instead [...]

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Should I Be Concerned that Another Virtual Assistant Has the Same Biz Name?

September 30, 2009 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I have a question regarding my business name. I started my business on August 17, but just found out that there is another Virtual Assistant business with a name similar to mine. I know that this probably won’t matter, but I am in one state and she is in another. My long [...]

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Call with Sherri Garrity on Getting and Working with a Virtual Assistant

September 29, 2009 – 10:00 am

Last Thursday, I was interviewed by Corporate Fugitive Sherri Garrity on a fun call for business owners on how to get and work with a Virtual Assistant. We had a really great time (always love talking with Sherri!) and hopefully I was able to shed some light on a few conceptions and misconceptions out there. [...]

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