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Are you a Virtual Assistant who wants to blog?

Blogs are a great way for sharing information and encouraging interactive discussion with your audience but many new VAs find the concept daunting and see it as just one extra thing in a long list of things they need to learn and get up to speed with.

I’ve recently written a book called “Blogging Basics” and it is exactly that – the basics of how to blog and why you would want to blog.  I’ve made it available at my SOHO-Life blog for all subscribers.

If you pop over there you can read the table of contents to see if this is something you’d like to download and read.

I wrote this simple book to help answer the questions I am often asked about blogging, both by clients and by VAs so here’s a quick simple answer to the most basic and often asked questions in an easy download PDF format.

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Kathie Thomas

Kathie is the former owner of VA Directory and is former past President of the Australian VA Association. She founded the Virtual Assistant industry in Australia in the mid 90s, having already been operating a home-based secretarial service. Today the VA industry covers a multitude of office-based services for clients worldwide.

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  1. Mary O'Connor says

    14 October 2008 at 10:19 pm

    I have a question

    I just recently took on a project – my client wanted me to create SOPs for them. They provided me a book and told me to scan the documents and change different items in the scanned product. This wasn’t the easiest way to do this considering they wanted me for a second project using the same procedures.

    I completed the first part of the project ahead of schedule. I passed in the completed book as requested. The night before I turned in the completed project, the client asked if I could provide all of my docs on a CD. I did so, even though this was out of the scope of the project. All files on CD in pdf version.

    Two days pass and the client called again – he wants the documents in the original format on CD. Am I required to provide this? I created this work to make my job easier and now I believe he is taking the files in order not to provide me with the second project.

    Please advise.

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  2. Kathie Thomas says

    15 October 2008 at 7:09 am

    I have a couple of thoughts and questions Mary. Firstly, the documents you were scanning – did these belong to the client or someone else? I’m always wary of scanning or copying documents and editing them unless I have confidence that they belong to the client and are allowed to do so – in case there is a problem with copyright. I don’t want to get caught in the middle of some wrong doing.

    Did you have a contract and what does it say? If what you’re being asked to do is outside the contract then perhaps it needs to be renegotiated or you are within your rights not to do the additional items.

    If you don’t have a contract do you have written instructions? How was the work conveyed to you?

    If you do the additional items you should be able to charge for it and if the client pays for the work to be done then realistically they can do what they like with what they’ve paid for.

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  3. Mary says

    15 October 2008 at 11:11 am

    Thank you for getting back to me. I do have a contract as well as a signed project sheet.

    The scope of the project was to type or scan the documents and provide a binder of the printed out copies. That was it.

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