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My mission is to offer advice and tips for: Any prospective virtual assistant (VA) worldwide wanting to set up business, but has plenty of questions from business start ups to getting clients and everything in between; Existing VAs with further tips for working from home, tricks and tools; and Individuals or businesses on the benefits of using a VA and where to find one.

This site is particularly useful for those wanting to start a home based secretarial service, WAHMs (work at home moms/mums) and men as well of course. There is information for those wanting to work from home doing transcription, be it medical transcription at home jobs, general or legal transcription from home, virtual bookkeeping, virtual web design, to name a few tasks that a VA does. A VA is one of the best legitimate work from home jobs in my books. It's also one of the fastest growing industries around the world. This website is also very interactive with visitors; several pages on the site encourage your valuable input. You can add your input, comments and even answer questions on any of the following pages so far: Virtual assistant photos - add your photo, home office, working outside, working with kids, VA get togethers, etc... Virtual assistant FAQ page - you may wish to ask a question or even answer a question that has been asked. Virtual assistant niches - add your niche if it's not on the list. I've just scratched the surface with my list.... Virtual assistant market - how did you gain your clients? You may wish to add info on how you found a particular client or clients that I may not have mentioned on the page. Transcription questions - ask any question you may have on transcription or answer any question asked. Virtual assistant articles - how about contributing your own article on any perspective of VA life, directed to clients, words of wisdom, etc, etc. Your details will be included as the author and the article will have its own web page. What is a Virtual Assistant?

Clearing up some misconceptions about Virtual Assistants

Who am I?

That should virtually, pardon the pun, sum up my site objective. Happy browsing... Site Table of Contents Sandra (Meaning of Sandra: Helper of Mankind) History of the Virtual Assistant Industry

Virtual Assistant Blog

About me and contact and how to build a successful website with SBI

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Equipment and free ebooks virtual assistant

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Custom Search This site is particularly useful for those wanting to start a home based secretarial service, WAHMs (work at home moms/mums) and men as well of course. There is information for those wanting to work from home doing transcription, be it medical transcription at home jobs, general or legal transcription from home, virtual bookkeeping, virtual web design, to name a few tasks that a VA does. A VA is one of the best legitimate work from home jobs in my books. It's also one of the fastest growing industries around the world. This website is also very interactive with visitors; several pages on the site encourage your valuable input. You can add your input, comments and even answer questions on any of the following pages so far: Virtual assistant photos - add your photo, home office, working outside, working with kids, VA get togethers, etc... Virtual assistant FAQ page - you may wish to ask a question or even answer a question that has been asked. Virtual assistant niches - add your niche if it's not on the list. I've just scratched the surface with my list.... Virtual assistant market - how did you gain your clients? You may wish to add info on how you found a particular client or clients that I may not have mentioned on the page. Transcription questions - ask any question you may have on transcription or answer any question asked. Virtual assistant articles - how about contributing your own article on any perspective of VA life, directed to clients, words of wisdom, etc, etc. Your details will be included as the author and the article will have its own web page. What is a Virtual Assistant? A VA is an independent contractor who works remotely in their home based business, usually from their home office, to perform secretarial, administrative, and/or many many other tasks. With the use of email, internet, faxes, phones and mail, a VA is more than able to offer valuable support to other businesses who can then get on with growing their own business, whilst outsourcing administrative tasks. Clearing up some misconceptions about Virtual Assistants A VA does not have a work at home 'job', but a work at home business. As stated above, a VA is not an employee, but a contracted service provider. A VA is not an employed telecommuter. You see lots of info on the net stating to "never pay for a work at home job". Well that comment refers to work at home employees, people with a work at home job, not VAs. VAs do sometimes pay to gain work, ie: paying to access some job banks, some VA networks, etc. These are legitimate business expenses incurred in order to secure more clients. Who am I? I am a VA myself and have been working as a one since 2003, but have 19 years of corporate office experience behind me. My site offers lots and lots of valuable information for those wishing to become a VA or those wishing to use the services of a VA. On the left you will find links to common questions and find plenty of useful suggestions, resources and networks. That should virtually, pardon the pun, sum up my site objective. Happy browsing... Site Table of Contents Sandra (Meaning of Sandra: Helper of Mankind)

History of the Virtual Assistant Industry No-one knows for sure the history of Virtual Assistants or how long ago secretaries and other admin staff started working at home. I’ve heard of a lady that was working at home with a typewriter in the 1970’s. The question probably should be what is the history of the virtual assistant networks? I do know of two networks of secretaries that were in operation in the mid 1980’s. One was led by Robyn Green in Melbourne, Australia, the other by Linda Anderson (homesecretaries.com) in Los Angeles. I do not believe that Robyn Green’s group meets any longer, however, to our knowledge, Linda was the first to put her network on the Internet in January 1996 - it was certainly the first one to show up in search engines. “A Clayton’s Secretary” was the next to show up in April 1996. AssistU from the USA appeared in 1997, then GAVA (Global Association of Virtual Assistants) also in 1997. Others began to emerge in 1998 with several more in 1999 and 2000. Not all of the early ones are now in existence. The term ‘Virtual Assistant’ was first reported to be used when referring to the admin support received on a virtual basis in the mid 1980’s but wasn’t used widely as a term until the mid 1990’s once the networks began to emerge - prior to that we were known as home based secretaries, home based business operators, and so on - hence the reason for some of the older networks carrying the word ‘secretary’. The later networks nearly all have Virtual Assistant or VA in their names. Many operators today prefer to be called Virtual Business Operators (VBOs) as that more accurately describes their function - particularly those who provide services other than secretarial or admin support. Stacey Brice of AssistU tells this story: “Thomas Leonard, founder of Coach U, was going to be travelling the country in his RV on sabbatical, and he wanted someone to run his life for him while he was away. Instantly excited, I saw the opportunity to test my theory about assisting someone across the distance who wasn’t also one of my travel planning clients. It was terrific :) What an amazing learning experience. I’ll be forever grateful for it. Thomas is the one who shared with me the term, “Virtual Assistant.” At last, a name for what I’d been doing for close to a decade!! Within months, coaches and other professionals approached me. Seeing the difference I had made in Thomas’ life, they wanted me to do the same for them! My practice was a virtual laboratory; with every new client experience, I learned more about doing this work — what it took to be successful, what it meant to really partner with someone in this kind of relationship, what clients wanted, and how to create my life the way that I most wanted it to be. My vision grew enormously, and I began to have a true idea of what broader implications there were to working this way.” Kathie M. Thomas, founder of A Clayton's Secretary.

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