Posted by execva on August 23, 2010
I get lots and lots and LOTS of enquiries from ladies – and some men – wanting to become a VA and asking for advice on how to get started. I’m happy to help and point them in the direction of where they can get useful start-up information (including my podcast). I know other long-standing [...]
Categories: business start up |
Tags: Australia, business, business development, business services, business support, education, Podcast, Secretarial Services and Virtual Assistants, virtual assistant | 
10 Comments »
Posted by execva on July 29, 2010
VAs generally operate under a code of ethics which prevents two VAs working for the one client on the same kind of work.
Categories: virtual assistant |
Tags: business, code of ethics, contracts, contractual arrangements, Ethics, va, virtual assistant | 6 Comments »
Posted by execva on July 23, 2010
Pleased to announce that the eSOS site has just been certified as an Australian Certified Website!
Whilst the organisation providing the certification is relatively new I felt that this was not as important as the spirit/intent of the service they were providing which, according to their Terms & Conditions, is:
“… established to certify websites that are [...]
Categories: business development |
Tags: Australia, business, Certification | No Comments »
Posted by execva on June 17, 2010
There’s been some discussion in the Aussie VA industry over the last couple of days about clients approaching them for quotes by getting them to complete pieces of the job, having it returned, then saying “thanks but no thanks” … then not paying for the work just completed.
Of course, this is a pretty canny way [...]
Categories: business start up |
Tags: business, Virtual Assistants | 2 Comments »
Posted by execva on March 20, 2010
We have had some local press coverage here of late – which kind of went viral and national quickly – about a couple of local high school teachers who learned the hard way that Facebook profiles are not the best places to put your ‘better-kept-private” pics. It has led to some pretty heated discussions around [...]
Categories: business building, facebook, linkedin, networking, online networking, social networking |
Tags: business, business building, business development, business marketing, grow your business, networking, social media, social networking, virtual assistant | 2 Comments »