Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Virtual Assistants. This month we’ve had some great submissions. I am delighted to be your host for this particular session! Do you know your computer software? Just how much should a Virtual Assistant know and understand their computer and software? I believe it is really important that we make an effort to know and understand as much as possible about the care of our computers to keep them running at an optimum. If we were dependent on our … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2007
Are You Real?
I had a young woman ring me the other day. She sounded a little nervous on the phone but the reason for that soon became obvious. You see, she'd signed up for a typing job at home on the web sometime back, paid out money and then nothing happened. She lost her money and felt 'burnt' and was nervous about trying again. However, she'd been researching the Virtual Assistant industry and was very keen to work at home with a genuine role, and anxious not to get caught by something bogus. So, she … [Read more...]
7 Keys to Successfully Work At Home
I want to share with you an article one of my business coach clients has written. I often speak about the same things to the VAs I chat with via forums, but this information is for anyone who runs a home based business. If you like what you read here, why not drop over to her site, read her blog and sign up for her newsletter? She has lots of valuable ideas that will help make you more productive on a daily basis. Increasing workloads are forcing people to spend more time in the office, even … [Read more...]
What Version Software?
When new software becomes available many new VAs are keen to upgrade as soon as possible, or buy the latest and greatest. But I want to encourage you to stop and think for a moment. Will this mean that you are no longer compatible with prospective clients? Will this cause some difficulty in clients being able to read files you send to them? Not always, but there are times when it will cause problems, and if the client is not very computer literate the challenge for them may prove too … [Read more...]