Headshot Tips for Your Virtual Assistant Website
Our guest vlogger, Tawnya Sutherland with VANetworking.com, answers the question, “Should I put my photograph on my website?”
Resources:
VANetworking.com – Tawnya’s forum and website for VAs
VBSS (Virtual Business Startup System) – that box Tawnya’s holding, I’ve heard great things about this!
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What software should I have to run my virtual assistant business?
Kevin asks what software he should have in his business…
Resources:
OpenOffice – Open source office suite
Adobe Acrobat Standard 9 – for PDFs
QuickBooks – Simple Start is free and allows you to have 20 customers and vendors, I usually tell people to spring for the Pro version though
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Virtual Assistants Bidding on eLance and oDesk and the like…
Deanna asks about bidding on projects through bid sites…
Resources:
IVAA – International Virtual Assistants Association
VANetworking – VANetworking.com
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Does this site generate any revenue?
Laurie asks if I’ve made any money off of this vlog.
Resources:
Buy blocks of my time
Blog by Scott Ingram about brain picking
How to transition from a J.O.B. to a virtual assistant
Jeneen asks us how to make the transition to working from home as a virtual assistant.
Resources:
Entrepreneurial Freedom by Jeannine Clontz and Lauren Hidden
MeetUp – a place to find various meetings of people with similar interests
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Following up with potential clients
Karen asks about following up with potential clients…
Resources:
The Art of Follow Up by Jaime Lee Mann
Silly Holidays by BrownieLocks
How should a virtual assistant track their time?
Carl asks us about tracking his time for different projects and clients…
Resources:
TraxTime (IVAA members have a discount!)
MyHours
QuickBooks
Freshbooks
Online Stopwatch
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What do I do after my first client comes calling?
Kevin asks “what now” once you start getting your first client calls…
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Is having a degree needed to be a successful virtual assistant.
Pam has a lot of real world experience but no degree and wants to know if this is a problem in being a successful virtual assistant…
Resources:
IVAA Certification Department
VA Certified
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