Posts belonging to Category home based business

Insurance Burden for Tax Agents?

Do you provide BAS services for clients? The Australian Financial Review reported last week (29 October) that the Tax Practitioners Board have declared that all tax and business activity statement agents must have professional indemnity insurance. As the TPB has not specified a minimum turnover in the recently released exposure draft for its new rules, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What’s in a name?

There has been lots of discussion of late on various Virtual Assistant (VA) lists around the world about what VAs should be calling themselves. Basically, the problem appears to be that after the term ‘virtual assistant’ was hijacked by outsourcing companies from cheap labour countries like China and India after the publication of Tim Ferris’ [...]