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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 I [...]

Rethink Your Role: You Aren’t Anyone’s Assistant

March 12, 2010 – 10:00 am

If you’re in business, you aren’t anyone’s assistant. Too many organizations are training Virtual Assistants to work with clients like nothing more than contract employees (and a contract employee is an employee). This keeps them from growing and earning better. You will keep yourself stuck if you continue to buy into that thinking.
Your value does [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged Administrative Support Consultant, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants | Comments (0)

No One Can Guarantee You Clients

March 4, 2010 – 8:44 am

There are people who care about this industry, and then there are exploiters in this industry who only care about picking your pockets.
Look beneath the surface. Are these people even in the business they are trying to teach you about? Do they actually DO the thing they profess to have the knowledge about? How can [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Rant & Raves, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants | Comments (2)

Dear Gritty VA: How Do I Get Clients

March 3, 2010 – 10:00 am

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 [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Dear Gritty VA, Marketing, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged Attracting the Right Clients, Getting Clients, Understanding Your Value, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants | Comments (11)

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 small [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged Client Consultation Process, Danielle Keister, Gritty VA, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants | Comments (0)

Consultation Fees?

January 13, 2010 – 10:00 am

A member of my Virtual Assistant community asked a great question today that I thought I would share here as it’s excellent food for thought. This member has been asked by clients on occasion if she would come to their offices and teach them how to do a thing (the “thing” itself doesn’t matter) so [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged Consultation Fees, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants | Comments (3)

Dear Gritty VA: What’s Your Website Advice?

January 6, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA:
I found your website today and am very impressed. I am new to the world of Virtual Assistance–actually, today is my first day! My 2010 goal is to build a professional Virtual Assistant business, the kind of quality practice you describe in your website. It seems that one of the first really big [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Dear Gritty VA, Marketing, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants, Web Design | Comments (2)

Dear Gritty VA: I’m Afraid I’ve Forgotten Everything I’ve Learned

December 23, 2009 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA:
I sent an attorney the Virtual Assistant contract templates that I purchased off your site. I contacted him knowing very well that it would be costly, but he offered to look them over at no cost. After not hearing back from him, I asked him once if he’d had a chance to [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Dear Gritty VA, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged Contracts, Gritty VA, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants | Comments (0)

How You Can Afford a Virtual Assistant

December 14, 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:
Okay, you already know about Virtual Assistants. You think they’re great. You totally get it and would love to work with your own administrative consultant. But as with anything of value, it is going to cost [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged How You Can Afford a Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants, Working with a VA | Comments (3)

Are There Legitimate Companies?

December 9, 2009 – 10:00 am

One of my members wanted to know the other day if there are legitimate companies that help you find clients. She’d seen many companies that say they employ Virtual Assistants for administrative work, but didn’t know who meant well, who was legit, who wasn’t and so on.
It’s a perfectly good question. I mean, on the [...]