
In my line of work as a Mac Virtual Assistant, I hear from so many prospective clients that they are nervous and hesitant about working with a VA. Even my famous one month no ties, no commitment trial period is a bit too overwhelming for the more skittish of them. A few years ago, I [...]

The results of our survey on why people are hesitant in contracting with a Virtual Assistant have been tabulated. The results don’t surprise me. In fact, they are just what I thought they would be! 22%: Trust So, 22% of our survey takers feel skittish on whether or not they can trust a Virtual Assistant. [...]

As a former executive assistant at a major design center, I worked with many interior designers. Two things often stood out to me. Their need for assistance and help with the “side work”, i.e.: customer service calls, mailings, marketing, and project management scheduling. The other thing that I noticed was that more often than not, [...]

As promised, here are the results of our Virtual Assistant survey that we put together last month Wow!!! 55% of those surveyed are gun shy because they don’t think they can afford high level administrative and virtual assistance. My guess is that those 55% of you have not thought about the following: When working collaboratively [...]

Please don’t get the wrong impression about Virtual Assistants. My fear is, if you are on Twitter, you may. There are many newbie Virtual Assistants who are so anxious to get experience and get clients that they do nothing to eradicate some people’s opinions of Virtual Assistants as employees or subservient secretaries. Or they engage [...]