If you’ve ever thought about going into project management, you’ve probably heard that you need to get a certification. And if you’re planning to become a project manager without experience, it can be hard to choose between all the training options available on the market. The acronyms alone can be …
CONTINUE READINGWhy You Might Not Need Experience to Become a Project Manager
In our experience of training thousands of virtual assistants, the journey that someone takes to become a VA looks something like this: You find out that you can legitimately work online and make money from the comfort of your own home. That sounds appealing, and you read about the basic …
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It’s time for another deep-dive into virtual assistant niche selection. We’re stoked about this series of posts because we see this as one of the biggest challenges that new virtual assistants need to overcome when first launching their business. Honestly, rarely does a week go by where we don’t have …
CONTINUE READINGFind Your Ideal Virtual Assistant Niche: Bookkeeping
Do I need to have good writing skills as a virtual assistant? We often get this question, and here’s the answer that we usually give: As someone who conducts business online, you should have good writing skills, especially since most communication nowadays happens in writing. Sure, we’re all guilty of …
CONTINUE READING5 Tips to Improve Your Writing Skills as a Virtual Assistant
Lack of confidence in one’s skills is probably the #1 thing that prevents freelancers from really going after it and starting a new virtual assistant business. They ask themselves questions like: Do I really have what it takes to succeed? What if I don’t know how to do something a …
CONTINUE READINGWhat If You Don’t Have Sweet Virtual Assistant Skills?
Today’s post is from Rachel Severns, an alum of 30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success. Rachel stops by the blog to share her experience of providing virtual assistant email management for a client. No biggie, right? But what if I told you that client had over 20k emails …
The more services you offer as a freelancer (virtual assistant or otherwise), the better your odds are of getting hired, right? Wrong! While the idea of having someone that can “do it all,” sounds great to a small business owner or entrepreneurs, when they’re actually looking for someone, they’re not …
CONTINUE READINGWhy You Should Get Started with Just 3 Virtual Assistant Services
I just got done doing my daily Pinterest marketing work for a client. This is a new gig for me and I’m glad to have given it a try. I responded to a Facebook forum posting looking for someone with Pinterest experience to help a fellow blogger increase their Pinterest marketing …
CONTINUE READINGHow to Get Paid to Do Pinterest Marketing for Other Bloggers