Archives for August 2011

Testing the Waters with Your New VA

  When you decide to hire a VA, before signing on the dotted line, it’s wise to put a limit on your initial time working together, much like a probationary period. As with any working relationship that’s new, both parties need time to assess if things are going the way they intended.   In the

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Keeping Track of Your VA

  So you’ve hired your first VA, and you’re starting to hand over tasks. Now how do you keep tabs on what they’re doing (and no, I don’t mean in their personal life!)? Well, in the “old” days, you had to rely on the VA keeping track of their time on their computer, maybe in a

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Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? The coach or the VA? The VA or the OBM?

  It was four years ago this month that VA-4-Hire was born. Before that I had flirted with the idea a bit, taken on a few projects, done a ton of research, but August was the month when I launched my first website and really put myself out there as a business owner. Approaching this

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How to Streamline Your Project To-dos

When it comes to launching a new teleclass series, a new e-book, live event, or membership site, things need to happen quickly, and any virtual assistant worth their salt understands that. They know you don’t have time to waste, because the longer things take to complete, the more time you lose getting potential business in

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