http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog Do What You Love and Outsource the Rest! Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:33:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of my client's shared this free gem with me and I am so entranced with it that I want to share it with you. This is a wonderful tool for the virtual assistant working alone or for a team of va's. RescueTime for Business Groups offers a free to low cost ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/07/want-to-know-how-productive-you-are/ Your Virtual Assistant receives hundreds of resumes each month, and while we can’t offer assignments to each job applicant we do want to help. Here are several tips to assist you in your quest for an online, work-at-home job in the very fast paced virtual assistance industry.   Tip #1: If you’re ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/07/online-job-hunting-tips/     Working from my beautifully appointed home office is quite literally a dream come true. This is what I have planned, plotted, and desired for a very long time. There is no question in my mind that having a true and definite goal will get you where you want to be. However, ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/05/a-fit-and-healthy-virtual-assistant-is-a-happy-virtual-assistant/ Your job should always be to get and keep customers and clients. The more time-sapping tasks that you can delegate to your virtual assistant or virtual assistant team, the more time you have to concentrate on building and growing your business as only you can do. This is a list of ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/05/tasks-you-could-and-should-delegate-to-your-virtual-assistant/ What is a Virtual Assistant? As a thriving Virtual Assistance firm this is a question that we heard a great deal in the early days, but now potential clients have a very clear idea of just what a virtual assistant is and how they want their virtual assistant to partner with ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/05/virtual-assistance-getting-started/   Ok, so you have a website, a cell phone and a wonderful plan to make your presence felt on the internet. What you probably don’t have, is a voice mail system that makes you sound like a Fortune 500 company. In the highly competitive field of Web Development and Virtual ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/05/sound-like-a-fortune-500-company-with-voicemail/ I just found an excellent article about working from your home office written by Carolyn Kepcher, who was Donald Trump's right-hand woman for a number of years, both in his company and on the Celebrity Apprentice television series until she left to start her own company. She started her new ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/04/working-from-home-works-for-bosses/ As both a Web Developer and Virtual Assistant I am always on the lookout for automation tools. There are a couple of free tools that I use daily and want to share them with you.   The first one is a nifty little tool called “ShortKeys” which is intended for use with ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/04/free-automation-tools/ Many of us are unintentionally lax with our personal information. Being lax with a client’s information can have devastating consequences for any Virtual Assistant. By being aware of personal and business personal information leaks, you can be proactive in protecting both yourself as well as your clients.   On a personal level, ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/04/protect-your-personal-information/ Virtual Assistance is a fairly new administrative profession. Professional Virtual Assistants are micro business owners who provide administrative and personal support while working in a long-term relationship with a client or clients. The Virtual Assistance industry has gained so much traction in the past couple of years that the question ... http://virtualassistantindustry.com/blog/2008/04/hello-world/