Tag Archives: Gritty VA

Dear Gritty VA: How Do Referrals Work?

December 29, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: How exactly do referrals work?  Does the client recommend their colleague and I call them?  Do they contact their colleague and send them my way or what?  Thank you so much for your anticipated response. –TA Well, basically, they work any way you’d like them to work. Referrals come from lots of [...]

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Dear Gritty Virtual Assistant: I’ve Got a Bunch of Questions!

October 6, 2010 – 10:41 am

Dear Gritty VA: Thank you so much for all of your offerings through the Virtual Assistant Business Store! Getting my company planned and put together has been much easier thanks to you than it might have been.  I just need some clarification: How exactly do referrals work?  I am giving a two-hour free referral bonus [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: How Do I Advertise for Referral Partners?

September 29, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I am new at publishing e-newletters and blogs, however, I know these are great tools to get the word out about my company and to attract new clients.  I plan to create a monthly e-newsletter and I want to be able to add great news about my referral partners. However, I want [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: Do I Need an Address on My Website?

September 15, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: There’s a conversation going on in another forum regarding addresses. Some people think it’s important to have one on your site and others think it’s unnecessary. What’s your opinion? –KH Oh, I’ve talked about this before on more than one occasion. Let me take the slightly longer road in answering because it’s [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: How Do I Find Virtual Assistant Jobs?

September 1, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: How do I find Virtual Assistant jobs? –SH From your question, I’m thinking you might not be understanding what Virtual Assistance is. Virtual Assistance is a not a job, it’s a business. As a Virtual Assistant, you don’t look for “jobs,” you look for clients. And you do that like any business [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: Why Can’t I Find Income Tax Info All in One Place?

July 14, 2010 – 1:43 pm

Dear Gritty VA: I submit final draft of my business plan to my mentor soon (I can’t thank you enough for the Virtual Assistant Business Plan template you have included in your packages). My question is for the financial aspect of the business plan… calculating the income taxes. There are so many websites out there [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: “I” or “We” in My Business Plan?

July 7, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: On the business plan template, I am having a hard time coming up with the replacement word for “we” and “our” since it is only “I” who will be doing all the work for now. My mentor stated it is not acceptable to put “I” in its place, that I need to [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: Can I Collect Unemployment While Starting My Virtual Assistant Business?

June 10, 2010 – 10:59 am

I am new to the Virtual Assistant world. I have been laid off so many times in the past 11 years that I have just lost faith in employers. I was given this idea back in 2003 to start a Virtual Assistant business, but was too scared. I was laid off again in September 2009 [...]

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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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