organize your time

Managing Your Work Pace to Efficiently Support VA Clients

Are you wasting your client’s money? If you are wasting time while working on their Virtual Assistant tasks, you might be charging them unnecessarily. The pace you work at is a very important part of your VA business. Why? Because our clients pay us for the time we spend on their tasks. Wasting time means wasting your client’s money. In a corporate setting, we don’t really often work against a clock. Yes, we work on deadlines (ours and other people’s) but not to the extent that we need to do so as a VA. When we start our VA business, this can be a difficult transition – all of a sudden we have to be responsible to justify every minute… Read More »Managing Your Work Pace to Efficiently Support VA Clients

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