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What Do You Think: Should Virtual Assistants Show Us They Are Competent?

May 15, 2009 – 10:00 am

So a new Virtual Assistant registered for our free VACOC Peer Networking Club a couple weeks ago. She met all the criteria and was approved to complete her profile. Her username had to be changed since she did not follow the registration directions for that (obviously rushing through them too fast to actually read them or just [...]

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Grateful Mondays: Lemon Cucumbers

October 20, 2008 – 1:33 pm

Yes, you read that right… lemon cucumbers. Today, I’m grateful for lemon cucumbers and finally finding a local supplier! It was so funny… today, I had my first weekly open masterminding biz call with a few members of my Virtual Assistant association and as we were talking, my office phone rang and the deli manager [...]

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Business Begging

April 25, 2008 – 1:42 pm

I received an email today from a Virtual Assistant looking for work (I get a million of these every week, it seems): "I have been in the business since 2005 and had established relationships with a number of clients in the different states. However the last few months has seen loss of clients due to [...]

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Best Way to Find a Virtual Assistant

December 7, 2007 – 8:13 am

There was a good conversation going the other day on one of the private attorney listservs I’m on. An attorney was relating that like most on that particular list, he was a solo with no employees and was finding himself spending an inordinate amount of time on administration and paralegal-type tasks. He was aware of [...]

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Be an UN-Cola

November 13, 2007 – 10:00 am

As the founder of a Virtual Assistant association, the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce, I’m in a position to see lots of new Virtual Assistant websites. In the last year, I’ve been noticing Virtual Assistant website after website using the new, and apparently free, Microsoft Live templates. Having a website is better than having no [...]

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Free Teleseminar: The Top 10 Mistakes That Are Killing Your Brand

October 11, 2007 – 10:00 am

Each month my Virtual Assistant association hosts a terrific, no-cost business teleseminar for Virtual Assistants and other business owners, and this month’s event will be no exception. Our teleseminars have been exceeding capacity so you’ll want to be sure and register early: The Top 10 Mistakes That Are Killing Your Brand Presented by branding expert [...]

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Accountant or Virtual Assistant?

August 22, 2007 – 8:40 am

Dear Gritty VA: I appreciated reading your Virtual Assistant association website. I was wondering if you plan on creating a site that is for accounting professional Virtual Assistants in addition to the administrative support assistants? I am new to Virtual Assistant services, but I assure you have completed effective training and researched this opportunity for [...]

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