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Crush These 6 Fears and Just Start Your VA Newsletter

Do you send out a regular newsletter for your Virtual Assistant business? To build a relationship with your clients and potential clients, a newsletter is a great means of communication. And it is an effective way to market your VA business because you share your expertise with them, and talk about how you help your clients. How does that help? Because when you share your expertise with people, they learn to trust you. But many VAs I know don’t have newsletters. They are afraid to get started because they really just don’t know what they need to do. Below I’m going to share the fears that stopped me from starting a newsletter, and tell you how you can get past… Read More »Crush These 6 Fears and Just Start Your VA Newsletter

Finding Motivation to Promote Your VA Business

What keeps you from getting out there and networking or marketing your Virtual Assistant business? I ask this question of many VAs when they are struggling to find clients, and it often comes down to one thing… lack of motivation. If we are not motivated to do something, we can convince ourselves that it’s not important, or that we are doing it the wrong way, or that we need more information or research done before proceeding. And because we work alone most of the time, we need to find ways to motivate ourselves to get a lot of things done that maybe we don’t feel like doing. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your… Read More »Finding Motivation to Promote Your VA Business

5 Ways for Virtual Assistants to Produce Content More Easily

How does it make you feel when somebody says you should be creating content daily on your VA social media channels? Does that hair on the back of your neck stand up? Many Virtual Assistants get paralyzed by the idea of creating content – writing blogs, doing videos, putting out social media. Why is this? Because they don’t know what to write about. Or maybe because they don’t have a content plan. When you don’t really have a plan to do something, it can fail miserably. It can also take 10x as long to do it – which means you could be wasting valuable time every day. If you are sitting down every morning trying to figure out what to… Read More »5 Ways for Virtual Assistants to Produce Content More Easily

Still Having Trouble Getting VA Clients? Stop Doing This.

Are you still struggling to get Virtual Assistant clients? Where are you looking for them? Many Virtual Assistants spend a lot longer looking for clients than they need to. If that’s you, consider what you are actually doing to find clients. What are your daily activities? Are those activities leading you in the direction of clients? Or are you just wasting your time? The quickest way for you to get clients for your VA business is to have business conversations with other business owners. Where can you find business owners? You can start with Facebook groups. But not the ones you are probably looking in now. If you are struggling to get VA clients, my guess is that you are… Read More »Still Having Trouble Getting VA Clients? Stop Doing This.

Managing Distractions While Working From Home as a VA

If your productivity is starting to suffer as a Virtual Assistant, you may want to have a look at what is distracting your focus. Right now we are in the throes of Coronavirus, and many Virtual Assistants I know suddenly have a house full of people that aren’t usually present during our work days. Is that you? If so, I’ve got some suggestions for you that might help. Managing distractions is a big issue when you are in situations that you aren’t used to, but you may also need these tips if you struggle with distractions even when no one else is around! Here are 10 things to look at if distractions are affecting your productivity: 1. Dedicated Office Space… Read More »Managing Distractions While Working From Home as a VA

Looking for the Upside During Challenging Times

The world has been slowed to a crawl because of Coronavirus. How are you coping? When things aren’t going the way we want them to in our business – we don’t have enough clients, or we don’t make enough money, or we burn ourselves out because we don’t charge enough (or can’t say no to a client) – it is easy (oh so easy!) to get down. It is easy to let the bad stuff overtake your mind, and your thoughts. With a pandemic, many things are out of our control. It can be even harder to see the upside. You might realllly have to look for it some days. Here are a few tips that might help: 1. Talk… Read More »Looking for the Upside During Challenging Times

The Most Important Piece to Using Video Marketing in Your VA Business

Are you using video to market your Virtual Assistant business? Many VAs are terrified of using video, and there are a number of reasons for that. They think no one cares what they have to say. They don’t know what to talk about. They don’t want anyone to see them make a mistake. They don’t like to be on camera. Virtual Assistants often avoid video for these reasons and more. I know that’s a generalization, but it’s true. The bottom line is, they don’t have the confidence to do the recording. And if they do record it, they don’t have the confidence to publish it. This was me, before I got started with video. Totally and completely me. So I… Read More »The Most Important Piece to Using Video Marketing in Your VA Business

7 Easy Ways to Get More Organized

If you are running out of time every day, you need to get better organized. Virtual Assistants have to manage a lot of things. We have to manage our client work, our own business admin, and sometimes even our clients’ client’s stuff. If you don’t have good organizational practices, you can quickly realize that you waste time, which is money in a VA business. Sometimes it’s because we do have too much to get done in a day – maybe we have overcommitted our time, or maybe we have unexpected roadblocks that have come up. Maybe we really do have more work than one person can do in an allotted day. But most of the time, the reason that we… Read More »7 Easy Ways to Get More Organized