Posted by execva on August 16, 2011
From time to time the question arises 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 cheaper labour countries and emerging economies like China, the Philippines and India after the [...]
Categories: outsourcing
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Tags: Elance, outsourcing, Timothy Ferriss, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on February 2, 2011
There have been a few posts to VA lists of late about jobs advertised on lists like SEEK job placement boards. They might be for medical transcriptionists, typists, phone sales and so on. I would urge caution to any VA who considered applying for one of these advertised positions. For tax purposes you would potentially [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: Australia, business, business services, outsourcing, transcription, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on April 14, 2010
We’ve had some great questions come in about the VA industry for the blog hopping tour and I’ve posted them below. Remember that on April 16 (that’s April 17 for Australia) the Blog Hopping VA Sharon Williams will be visiting the blog to respond to your questions about the VA industry and the Online International [...]
Categories: oivac, virtual assistant
| Tags: education, oivac, outsourcing, training, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on March 30, 2010
Thank you Warwick Merry, guest blogger, for sharing your experiences of outsourcing versus insourcing. For VAs, Warwick also shares his tips on promoting your value as opposed to getting into an ‘Us v Them’ war. Really, offshore providers as I’ve said before service an end of the market many of us don’t really want. And [...]
Categories: facebook, outsourcing, transcription, virtual assistant
| Tags: outsourcing, remote secretary, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on March 29, 2010
And the discussion continues…. regular readers of the blog will recall my What’s in a Name and Confusion Continues posts. Recently the Sunday Life’s Sarah Wilson blogged about hiring ‘a virtual assistant in India’. *sigh* Yet again an Australian reporter encourages Australian business to head offshore for their ‘virtual assistant’ needs. Again, a professional virtual [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: outsourcing, plagiarism, remote secretary, remote support, va, virtual assistant
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