This blog post will do nothing for SEO, but that's ok. I want to share with ya'll some of my top 3 best bloopers, awkward, funny, whatever-you-want-to-call-them moments I've experienced as a virtual assistant over the past 5 years.
It's not always easy to figure out how to be a more organized virtual assistant, but having the right systems in place will help. Some people are super organized, and their entire life is run off of systems. That's not me.
You can’t see a virtual assistant unless you’re video chatting so looks don’t really matter; however, personality is everything. According to Kendra Cherry’s summarization on Verywell Mind , personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. Personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly […]
We set our own hours, pay for our own equipment, and we pay our own taxes. We don’t have a retirement plan with anyone we work for. We don’t receive medical benefits. Being a Virtual Assistant and owning our own business is very different than working for a company in corporate America. We have to […]
Mistakes on the job are inevitable unless one truly is perfect. In my 36 years, I have not met one such person. If you are a business owner, how do you handle mistakes? How one responds to mistakes they make shows a good deal about their character. Someone may try to cover it up and […]
Finding someone to work for you virtually is a daunting task. How do you know this person is who they say they are? I know I’m on the opposite side, but I I try to be as transparent as possible so potential clients get a good feel for my personality and my skills before I […]
What better way to kick off a new blog about my life as a virtual assistant than to tell the story of how it all began… It was a warm day, back in August 2016. The breeze was blowing the branches on the oak tree outside of my office window. I was tired after spending […]