Archive for the 'Virtual Assistant' Category

I like to promote home businesses whenever I can. Today I wanted to bring this press release to your attention about GoreAdministrativeServices.com:
Gore Administrative Services announces the creation of a new website, www.GoreAdministrativeServices.com , to advance awareness of their full line of virtual administrative, marketing and financial services. Gore Administrative Services is a fully [...]

The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that the cost of employee benefits is up to 44% of total payroll costs.
This fact is important for home based virtual assistants and others who charge for their services to recognize. Tonya Thomas’ website Small Office Assistant has a good discussion of this issue when it discusses why virtual assistants can [...]

15 Stress Management Tips From Web Worker Daily!

Change your view.
Choose background noise carefully.
Eat and sleep well.
Be prepared to switch directions.
Keep your work and home separate.
Take advantage of the comforts of home when you need to.
Exercise.
Be realistic about your time.
Meditate.
Minimize input.
Smile.
Be prompt.
Hit “save� before you hit “send.�
Say no.
Ask for help.

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Even working “on call” they can earn $20,000 to $40,000 per year.
From The Daily Herald
Gayle Buske, founder of a Wisconsin-based virtual staffing company, said salaries range from $20,000 to $40,000 a year for virtual assistants. The independent contractors’ salaries vary by skill set and the number of projects they work.
After working in sales for three [...]

If you’re already a virtual assistant, could you make extra revenue this year by sending customized cards to the customers that patronize your client?
For $4 you can get a customizable Valentine’s Day card that you can print for your client. (the pdf versions are free).
Remember that one of the greatest salesmen in the world – [...]

Not just anyone can do it… after all it’s not the work at home equivalent of falling off a log. Nor is it a business that you can start right away even if you’re “cash poor”. Sure, it costs less to start up than, say, a nuclear reactor to generate electricity, but like any business, [...]

Vendelo is Spanish for “sell it” and Armando Fileto Texas disck jockey turned ebay entrepreneur is selling it as a tradiing assistant for people who don’t have either the time, skills, or interest to get rid of their stuff on ebay. To minimize overhead Vendelo operates out of a small office instead of a retail [...]

An online pal of mine, Joe Sabah, and his daughter Renee are helping people learn how to do what she did.
After 6 years at a “corporate” job, she decided to strike out on her own and charge what she’s worth as a personal assistant.
She’s got more business than she can handle and lots of people [...]