Posted by execva on April 29, 2010
As a virtual assistant you have to be on your toes and ready for the changes that are constantly occurring in our industry. Whether you are a VA just getting your feet wet or one that has “been there, done that” and been serving clients virtually even before the term “Virtual Assistant” existed, the Online [...]
Categories: convention, oivac, online training, virtual assistant |
Tags: business building, business development, education, grow your business, networking, oivac, online networking, training, virtual assistant | 
Comments Off
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 »
Posted by execva on February 3, 2010
February marks the 10th Anniversary of Executive Stress Office Support and I’m very excited to have reached such a big milestone. When statistically so many small – and micro – businesses fail in the first five years I’m very proud of the accomplishment.
But I could not have done it alone! Getting here has been dependent [...]
Categories: virtual assistant |
Tags: business, business building, business development, business services, business support, gratitude, grow your business | Comments Off
Posted by execva on January 14, 2010
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 that [...]
Categories: business, business development, business start up, home based business, networking, online networking, social networking |
Tags: business, business building, business marketing, gec, global economic crisis, grow your business, marketing, networking, recession, social networking | 4 Comments »
Posted by execva on August 20, 2008
Rising fuel costs. Interest rates going up. Returns on investments going down. Dire warnings about the economy sliding into recession. It’s clear that there has been an abrupt slowdown in the Australian economy over the last year.
In the current economic climate many business owners begin to worry how they’re going to survive this slowing economy. [...]
Categories: assistance, assistant, home based business, productivity, recession, remote secretary |
Tags: business services, business support, grow your business, outsourcing, remote secretary, remote support, va, virtual assistant | Comments Off