Posts belonging to Category business development

OIVAC Blog Hop Tour Stop 2: Q&A!

We welcome the Blog Hopping VA, Sharon Williams, President of The 24 Hour Secretary and chair of the OIVAC steering committee, who is here answering your questions on the virtual assistant industry and OIVAC! Here are Sharon’s answers to the questions posed over the last couple of days. If you have further questions or would [...]

Facebook – Keeping it Private

Following on from my earlier post on Facebook, I had an interesting chat with a colleague who indicated he had removed his Facebook profile because of the people who he had ‘friended’… Not because they weren’t friends (in this instance it was someone he’d known for over 20 years) but because of the profile picture [...]

Never Stop Marketing!

I haven’t really noticed any change to my practice since the beginning of the economic downturn but I have heard a number of small business owners and Virtual Assistants of late saying that work is dropping off and/or they’ve ‘lost’ clients, blaming in part the economic downturn. This is a good reminder for us all [...]

Hone Your VA Skills for 2010

Whether you’re just getting started as a VA or are one of the seasoned VAs continuing education is so important. The special Xmas discount at VA Classroom is just about to run out so if you want to take advantage of 25% off courses such as: Fantastic Facebook Pages (RRP $97) Blog Marketing Tips Tools [...]

Business Peaks & Troughs

With the economic downturn I’ve noticed of late more and more discussion on various networks about worry about work dropping off, finding part time jobs and so on. I think it’s important to remember this: as virtual assistants we are in business. We are business owners. This means we are responsible for our work/cash flow [...]