
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, [...]

Back in 2004 I watched a special on HGTV about the luxury motor coach and RV trade. At the time I was working a 9 to 5 day job and was not getting career satisfaction. After I saw that show on HGTV it answered a question which was nagging me for months. “What type of [...]

As a Virtual Assistant, I like to do things quickly, yet efficiently and without sacrificing quality. Since I have been so busy lately I seldom have time to go through my own followers lists on Twitter. I do this for my clients though.
What I wish is that I could check off my “blocks” and still [...]

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 with a Virtual [...]

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 in “bidding” [...]