by VANA member Dusty Warren
For those of you working full-time while in the start up phase of your VA business, you can work full-time and manage clients. With a solid plan in place you can mange your clients the same as a full-time virtual assistant.
by Marcia Francois
You won’t believe all the excuses I get from people about their untidy desks!
“It’s because I’m creative” or “I know where everything is”.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
This may very well be true. However, for most people, an untidy desk makes you feel overwhelmed and out of control.
And how can you be productive when you’re overwhelmed? Right?!
The good news is you can have a tidy desk in just 5 steps:
by Janet Barclay, MVA
One of the most common reasons people invite me to their office for an organizing consultation is to help them deal with the piles of paperwork that are encroaching on their workspace.
It is generally understood that part of the problem is the lack of an efficient filing system and by efficient, I mean one that includes making time to file paid bills, completed projects, and so on. The other part of the problem relates to active projects. For some people, designating a desk drawer for these files is a viable solution, but for visual thinkers, and there are a lot of you out there, the immediate reaction to such a suggestion is, If I can’t see it, I’ll forget about it! Sometimes a desktop vertical organizer will work well, especially if it is slanted so you can see all the file labels, but if you have a large number of active projects, or if the files are very thick, it’s not very effective.
By Janet Barclay, MVA
When starting a home-based business, some people have the luxury of an unused room which they can convert into an office. This provides a private area away from the distractions of home and family, and keeps your computer and other office equipment out of your living space. However, if you don’t have a spare room, and you lack the financial resources for renovations, don’t despair. Read on to learn how you can create an efficient workspace in any home.
By Suzanne McLoone
The System
You have a cell phone, a house phone, and an office phone and you receive voicemails on all 3 of them. Plus you are expected to return all of those voicemails at the speed in which the person who left it expects you to. Talk about insanity! We haven’t even touched on what you are currently using to jot down voicemail messages on…Post It’s, scrap pieces of paper, the back side of a report, random piece of paper.