Tag Archives: Virtual Assistants

Dear Gritty VA: How Should My Client Market?

December 8, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I have a client who only sells wholesale products with an occasional retail customer. I have convinced him to think about sending a mass email marketing campaign/newsletter for his wholesale customers since his previous website designer never even introduced this idea to him. His response was that he only sells to wholesale [...]

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Why Are You Asking a Plumber to Fix Your Car?

December 3, 2010 – 10:00 am

If you’re a plumber, you wouldn’t expect people to ask you to fix their car, right? You’re someone who deals with plumbing, pipes and fixing toilets, not someone who works on cars. So if people are asking you to fix their car, perhaps you aren’t making it clear exactly what business you are in and [...]

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How Working More Hours Can Mean Earning LESS Money

November 26, 2010 – 10:00 am

Continuing the conversation in this week’s Dear Gritty VA post (“I’ve Lost All Boundaries–Is this Relationship Salvageable?”), I wanted to illustrate how a Virtual Assistant can be working 50 hours a week and still not be making “any” money. I use quotations marks because, sure, she’s getting paid something. But “something” doesn’t necessarily mean “enough.” [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Pricing and Getting Paid, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Dear Gritty VA: I’ve Lost All Boundaries–Is this Relationship Salvageable?

November 24, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I have a client who signed a three month retainer which will end next month. The client is a publicist in Los Angeles. Working with this individual has become a job. I work 50 hours a week. The reason being that I have become an assistant vs. admin support. I like this [...]

By Danielle Keister | Posted in Business Savvy, Dear Gritty VA, Pricing and Getting Paid, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance | Also tagged , , | Comments (13)

Value Is Not a Two-for-One Sale

November 18, 2010 – 10:00 am

When we talk about and use the term “value,” we aren’t talking about bargains and two-for-one sales. Value is about providing your expertise in a way and at a level that supports the big picture goals, objectives and needs of the client and his/her business. Client’s don’t hire Virtual Assistants/Administrative Consultants for the fun of [...]

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Clients Are Responsible for their Own Success

November 12, 2010 – 10:00 am

Just because what we Virtual Assistants and Administrative Consultants do helps clients and gives them to ability or opportunity to increase their income, doesn’t mean we are responsible for whether that happens or not. While we are definitely passionate about our work and how it helps them move forward and gives them back more time, [...]

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Dear Gritty VA: What Is “the Work?”

November 10, 2010 – 10:00 am

Dear Gritty VA: I am just starting my Virtual Assistant business.  I am networking and setting things up, but I have a question (hope it does not sound silly)… If you could, please list and/or explain some of the duties/work you in real terms. I hear all these Virtual Assistants talk about “the work,” but [...]

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

New Video: How to Work with a Virtual Assistant

November 9, 2010 – 10:00 am

Hey, check out our new video to help clients understand how to work with a Virtual Assistant/Administrative Consultant. Would love you to subscribe to our channel, rate the video and leave your comments. Let me know how you like it. Oh, and by the way, this was made for Virtual Assistants and Administrative Consultants to [...]

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Take These Words Out of Your Vocabulary

October 28, 2010 – 10:16 am

We are having a great conversation about yet another dumb article about Virtual Assistants over on our Facebook group page. One thing I am always trying to get through to Virtual Assistants and Administrative Consultants is to take certain words out of their vocabulary when it comes to their marketing and conversations with clients. First, [...]

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Which Are You?

October 26, 2010 – 10:00 am

I was going through some old listserv messages the other day that I had saved for one reason or another and came across one where a Virtual Assistant was lamenting about possibly losing a client. She had learned inadvertently that this client was seeking a new VA and she was upset that she hadn’t been [...]

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