With COVID-19 lockdowns ending in many areas, executive and administrative assistants are questioning if they want to return to an office environment. Most professionals have always dreamt of leaving their corporate job and being their own boss. The pandemic has...
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...
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,...
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,...
A few years ago, I witnessed a near-disaster that could have been prevented with just a little bit of organization and a plain 3-ring binder. The controller at one of my client’s companies passed away suddenly. No one could find the passwords for QuickBooks and other...
Are you a small business owner that has researched the possibility of hiring a Virtual Assistant to handle tasks that you can’t seem to get off your to-do list? Do you wonder why VA pricing seems higher than an on-site, in-house administrative assistant? The following...