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Spring Clean Your Inbox

Spring Clean Your Inbox

Entrepreneur, Mindset, Small Business, Time Management, VA Tech Tip, Virtual Assistant Business

Email is intended to be a tool to get your job done, it isn't supposed to BE your work! For most of us, email actually interferes with getting work done. Employees and business owners alike stress over reading and responding to emails, trying to keep up with the...

Better Project Management

Better Project Management

Business Development, Education, Entrepreneur, Project Management, Small Business, Starting a Virtual Business, Time Management, Virtual Assistant

As a virtual assistant, we are often asked to manage big projects for a client. It might be migrating them to a new email system, building a new website, or moving them to a cloud-based solution to manage their business. While big projects can be fun and exciting,...

How to Overcome Perfectionism as a Virtual Professional

How to Overcome Perfectionism as a Virtual Professional

Entrepreneur, Small Business

There is a saying, “Perfection is the enemy of done.” And it’s real. It’s not just a phrase. I see this all the time. So have others. Even Forbes has noticed. (And they’re kind of a big deal, don’t you think?) Perfection vs. progress A lot of virtual professionals,...

How To Manage Your Time More Effectively With A Virtual Assistant

How To Manage Your Time More Effectively With A Virtual Assistant

Time Management, Virtual Assistant Business, Working with a VA

If you’re struggling to manage your time more effectively, you’re not alone. It’s official; we’ve been living through a pandemic for an entire year now. We’ve had to change our routines, adjust our expectations, and realign our goals to consider these circumstances...

How to Handle Clients When You’re Out of the Office

How to Handle Clients When You’re Out of the Office

Business Planning, Mindset, Small Business, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistant Business, Working with a VA

One thing that challenges new entrepreneurs in service-based businesses is how to handle taking time off.  What happens to your clients when you go on vacation or on medical leave?  Do they just do without you for a while, or do you have someone cover them?  Do you...

Bad Meeting Behaviors and How to Stop Them

Bad Meeting Behaviors and How to Stop Them

Virtual Assistant Business, Working with a VA

We’ve all been in meetings where attendees were “misbehaving.”  Disengaged, looking at their phones, typing emails, texting, whispering to one another - just generally not paying attention or participating. If this happens to you all the time, it may be that your...

How to Delegate Your Email to Your Assistant

How to Delegate Your Email to Your Assistant

Virtual Assistant Business, Working with a VA

Most busy executives and entrepreneurs feel like they’re drowning in a sea of unread emails when they look at their inbox.  They see the number of unread emails, and their blood pressure instantly shoots up!  They scroll through their inbox looking at the senders’...

3 Strategies That Will Help You Shift into a Growth Mindset

3 Strategies That Will Help You Shift into a Growth Mindset

Virtual Assistant Business

Whether it’s in business or the world of psychology, you’re probably familiar with the terms ‘growth mindset’ and ‘fixed mindset’. The term “mindset” refers to the learned and established set of attitudes you’ve adopted over time. A growth mindset is the attitude that...

How to Use the End-of-Year Lull to Get Ready for Next Year

How to Use the End-of-Year Lull to Get Ready for Next Year

Virtual Assistant Business, Work from home

I've eaten the turkey. (Well, prime rib because I don't like turkey.) I shopped until I dropped. (Hides Amazon boxes from hubby...) We decorated and shared good cheer. (With a mask, and socially distanced.) We wrapped and unwrapped. (Or used gift bags, because,...

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