Tag Archives: Understanding Your Value

Does This Hurt Our Relationship?

As you may know, I frequently have to deal with new Virtual Assistants (and sometimes not-so-new Virtual Assistants who damn well know better) who have stolen or plagiarized content from me. It’s my policy to give folks one chance to make things right. Beyond that, I hand it over to my intellectual property attorney. If [...]

Dear Gritty VA: How Do I Get Clients

Dear Gritty VA: Brief question–how do you get clients? I know this is on every Virtual Assistant’s mind in America whom is starting out. I know that the Virtual Assistant business is referral-based, but my God! I know that you can’t just jump up and think you are going to get rich from this (not [...]

Want to Know How NOT to Sound Like Every Other Virtual Assistant?

One of the biggest complaints I hear from clients is that all the Virtual Assistant sites they visit say the same thing. There are a number of reasons for this. For one thing, it seems to me that many people attracted to this industry somehow get the idea that it’s a sort of club to [...]