Virtual Assistants
Clutter: You Don’t Have to Put Up With It
By Carrie Greene
Like many kids, my son Eric has crooked teeth. About a year ago we started along the orthodontics route and he got a Herbst appliance. In case you’re not an orthodontist, a Herbst appliance is designed to do some preliminary moving and adjusting before “real braces”. Unlike a retainer it is permanent which [...]
How To Develop Organizational Culture With Outsource Staff
By Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM
Today’s businesses - even small ones - are complex organizations made up of in-house and outsourced or virtual assistance staff. The in-house staff might meet in a single office location, but the outsourced staff could be anywhere.
It’s a good business decision to outsource: It’s often cheaper [...]
Creating a Tickler File
By American Folder Company
Anybody who files in a busy office knows that papers are constantly coming across their desk, and if those papers are not organized on a regular basis, messy piles can accumulate…resulting in misfiles, or even worse, lost documents.
An easy and smart way to keep constant track of paperwork as it mounts, particularly [...]
Helping Business Owners Delegate
By Angela Mattson
As a small business owner, it can be difficult to decide what to delegate to a Mobile or Virtual Assistant. By focusing on the non-income producing tasks, you can get clear about tasks that are true “time and money wasters” for a business owner. Using checklists can help both the assistant and the [...]
Top 10 Reasons Why a Virtual Assistant (VA) is Better than Hiring an In-house Office Assistant
By a VAnetworking member
Your business is growing and you have decided it is time to hire an Office Assistant. Hiring in-house staff can become complicated. Questions to answer are “where to advertise”, “what [...]
Top 10 Ways to Make Your Virtual Assistant Love You!
By VAnetworking member Angela Wills
Working with a virtual assistant can be a very rewarding and profitable experience. This is especially true if you are working with someone who understands your business and enjoys [...]
Top 10 Ways a Virtual Assistant (VA) Can Save Your Business Money
By VAnetworking member Erika Martlew
Most small businesses or entrepreneurs do not have a large budget for hiring additional staff when demands warrant it. Often times, a business owner may think it is more [...]
The Green VA
By Robin A. Holstein
Being “green” has been the rage in the business community for the past few years. However, frugality and concerns over polluting the environment goes back centuries. Our agricultural ancestors learned that the manner in which they treated the earth directly affected their crops and livestock. In the business [...]
How To Build A Virtual Assistant Business
By Janice Byer and Elayne Whitfield-Parr
Although the term “Virtual Assistant” is still very new to the business community, there are thousands of home-based administrative workers around the world who now refer to themselves as VAs. The opportunities for the professional services offered by these VAs are endless.
So, how exactly do you start and build a [...]
Could You Use a “Stop Doing” List?
By Inez O. Ng
One of the tried and true organization and time-management tools is the trusty old “to do” list. I was trained to diligently put one together at the end of the day for the following day, and whatever tasks I failed to complete, to carry it forward. This system has worked well in [...]
