Posted by execva on April 14, 2011
School holidays can sometimes send the work-from-home mum into a tail spin! What do you do with the kids? How are you going to get all your work done? This is a common problem for lots of work-from-home mums including Virtual Assistants. Instead of stressing out my advice has always been the same: remember why [...]
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Tags: business, Home Office, iPhone, Kids (House), Office, Telecommuting, va, virtual assistant, work-at-home mum, working mum
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Posted by execva on April 13, 2011
A common misconception in society seems to be that being your own boss means doing what you want. When I say no to coffee dates during the day, kick out friends who drop in, or respond to questions about what we’re doing over the school holidays with “I’m working”, many people say “But you’re the [...]
Categories: business start up
| Tags: business, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on March 21, 2011
I was doing some work for a client the other day and he was making recommendations that someone would be suitable for “reasonably unskilled work” like administrative and office/clerical work. It got me thinking – do the general public really think that secretaries and other admin/clerical staff are “unskilled”? This couldn’t be further from the [...]
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| Tags: admin staff, administration, business services, business support, clerical work, remote secretary, remote support, 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 [...]
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| Tags: Australia, business, business services, outsourcing, transcription, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on November 29, 2010
If you’re a new virtual assistant you’ll want to take up the advice of the veterans and join a few networks. I’ve mentioned on this blog before about the ones here in Australia and there are many overseas networks too. You get some great support, encouragement and advice particularly when starting out. Most networks will [...]
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| Tags: Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Australia, independent contractor, virtual assistant
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