Tag Archives: virtual staffing

You Aren’t Truly Partnering With Clients If…

I posted this on my forum a couple weeks ago and thought it was worth sharing here as well… You aren’t truly partnering with clients if you are running a “team VA” business. And if you have other people and Virtual Assistants supporting you while YOU partner with your clients (which I fully support and [...]

Team DoubleClick Has It Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

What is with these virtual staffing agencies calling what they do Virtual Assistance? What they do is farm out workers to companies and individuals who are their clients, not the worker’s. That isn’t Virtual Assistance in any way, shape or form. And they’ve got these people completely snowed. Hello, people! They aren’t your clients if they belong [...]

Thanks, But No Thanks

I was recently contacted by someone new to the industry to contribute to a book of tips they are compiling for people who are interested in becoming a Virtual Assistant. They informed me that one of the benefits is that I’ll get to put the fact that I was quoted in a book on my [...]

No Such Thing

Have you heard of the term "team VA?" Well, guess what? There’s no such thing. What there are, are virtual temp/virtual staffing services. These models work with clients just like a temp agency would–by supplying and rotating help according to client specifications. If someone gets sick, they have someone else to fill in. It’s a [...]