Tag Archives: Virtual Assistance

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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Is a Web Designer an Assistant?

September 10, 2010 – 4:16 pm

Is a Web designer an assistant? Is a bookkeeper or accountant an assistant? Is an attorney an assistant? Aren’t all these very specific areas of expertise? Then why do you think you have to be an assistant in order to deliver your administrative support and expertise? Change how you think of yourself, your expertise and [...]

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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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Another Reason I Can’t Stand Internet Marketers

August 27, 2010 – 10:00 am

I was just listening to a podcast and something that was said reminded me of an Internet marketer who contacted me awhile back. She sent me a message on Twitter asking to talk with me. She didn’t say what it was, and I’m not interested in talking to just anyone, expending my time, unless I [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Personal Musings, Rant & Raves, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged , | Comments (3)

Might be a Great Target Market for an Enterprising Virtual Assistant

August 26, 2010 – 10:00 am

I love listening to NPR in the evenings. This week, they’ve been doing a three-part series about doctors in primary care. In this series, they reported on the catastrophic shortage of primary care doctors who provide basic health care (they make around $150,000 a year compared to the multiple six-figure incomes of specialists), and took [...]

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You Aren’t an Assistant

August 24, 2010 – 10:00 am

One reason I think administrative expertise has for so long or so often not been given the same kind of respect as other expertise is that it is/was always paired with being an assistant, which is automatically/inherently subjugating. You don’t have to be an assistant to be an administrative expert. Beware of Virtual Assistant “gurus” [...]

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Another Idiotic Post About Virtual Assistants

August 11, 2010 – 10:00 am

Saw another idiotic post about Virtual Assistants come through on my Google Alerts. Articles like these are responsible for miseducating the marketplace into thinking Virtual Assistants are some kind of substitute employee–which they are not. It’s also why we have so many new VAs coming into this profession thinking they are substitute employees filling a [...]

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Why Would I Work with a Virtual Assistant?

July 12, 2010 – 10:00 am

You might be asking yourself, “Why would I pay someone else to do administrative work I can do myself? It seems like it would be easier and cheaper to do it myself.” The operative word here is “seems.” Because in all honesty, trying to do everything yourself actually exacts a heavy price in your business, [...]

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Buyer Beware

June 16, 2010 – 4:42 pm

Announcement from Virtual Assistant with no clients charging $15 an hour: “Coming Soon! Workshops and classes on how to be a successful VA.” I’m sure this is a perfectly lovely person with the best of intentions, but it’s painfully clear that as far as Virtual Assistance goes, she doesn’t have any business teaching this subject [...]

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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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