Virtual Bookkeeping Assistant Do you have experience with QuickBooks or another accounting/bookkeeping software program? Have you worked in an office helping with the budget, expenses/purchases or invoicing? If so, marketing yourself as a Bookkeeping Assistant makes sense. Obviously don’t oversell but having some experience with these tasks = include this service on your list! Bookkeeping Assistant Tasks What are some of the tasks that a bookkeeping assistant would do? He

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Quick Reference Guides Have you heard of a Quick Reference Guide ? In the corporate world, I made and used them all the time. I actually had them pinned up around my cubicle like wallpaper! While I don’t surround myself with QRGs in my home office, I still rely on these fast reference documents for specific tasks and reminders. From my business to my personal life, I thrive on organization, and I love to plan! I take the time to look at my day, my week, my month and furth

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Consistency is Key in Marketing Regular Website Updates Last week I took about 20 minutes to go through my website Effective Virtual Assistance, LLC, to make some changes. Why? First, search engines like fresh content. Even something you consider “Evergreen” content which you may not think you need to change should get “tweaked” now and then. How? Simple changes. I recently did a little refresh on my own site—updated my services, swapped out a few images, and it alread

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Continuing education for virtual assistants - keep your skills current. Virtual Assistant Learning Opportunities Why is this important? Where do you find training? During my years working in a Corporate Human Resources department analyzing training metrics, the importance of training and continuing education had two significant and obvious impacts that stood out for this large corporation. Professional Development Impact #1 The first important impact was from the perspectiv

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Why Start a Home-Based Business What are 5 great reasons to begin a home business? Making the decision to open my own Virtual Assistant Practice was the best career decision I have ever made! I officially launched my home business April 1, 2008. At the time, I had two young boys – one less than 6 months old. It was a little scary, but they were my inspiration to make it work. Everyone has different reasons to start a business, but I am willing to bet the following five re

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The Value of Time What is time? Well, if you do a quick online search, the concept of time can get very deep and philosophical. From Einstein’s theory of relativity to quantum mechanics, scientists have been pondering this question for a very long time. Without getting into the scientific meaning or interpretation of time, we can actually keep it quite simple for business. Time is the duration we have during daylight hours and darkness to get things done , which then repea

Why should small businesses focus on build business relationships? I am a small business owner. That is exciting to say out loud! As a business owner, a true key to my success has been bringing back the long-lost art of “customer service”. I feel so strongly about building business relationships based on reliability, being present and pleasant, and commitment. These days, effective customer service can take on different forms, but the bottom line is you must provide high qua

Tools for running a home-based business If you follow me, you might already know my story behind making the decision to share the actual business forms and business templates that I use every day to run my Virtual Assistant Practice that I started in 2008. To quickly recap, over the years, I’ve had quite a few aspiring virtual assistants reach out to me for advice. Some were business contacts referred by satisfied clients and others found me via my website or social media

Continuing education for virtual assistants to keep your skills current. Why is this important? Where do you find training? During my years working in a Corporate Human Resources department analyzing training metrics, the importance of training and continuing education had two significant and obvious impacts that stood out for this large corporation. Professional Development Impact #1 The first important impact was from the perspective of the company. Providing employees