Category Archives: Specialist Niches

Typing Tips: Specialising in a niche

If you aspire to be an excellent virtual assistant offering typing services, we’re running a series of tips on how to impress your clients.  This is the last in the series, but if you’d like to read more just click … Continue reading

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Unusual Niches: Patty of Time Is Of The Es-Cents

As part of our series of specialist VAs and their unusual niches, I interviewed Patty Dost whose niche is particularly relevant to any VA who doesn’t like “selling” to clients who don’t understand what a virtual assistant does.  What struck … Continue reading

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Specialist Niche: The Writer’s Virtual Assistant

As part of our specialist niche virtual assistants series, Sarah Cruikshank offered to share her expertise in helping writers and journalists.  It’s a great match for a VA, as their workload often fluctuates or is on a freelance basis.  Over … Continue reading

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Specialist Niche: The Dental VA, Katey Lawson

Today we’re featuring Katey Lawson “The Dental VA” – I came across Katey’s niche virtual assistant business by accident and despite my horrific dental phobia, it sounded really interesting, so I found out more…

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Specialist Niche: Travel PA

John Guinn of The Holiday Hut has a specialist niche as a Travel PA for his clients – if it’s something you’ve thought of or been asked about by your clients, here’s John’s Top Tips: Your client wants to go … Continue reading

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Specialist Niche: IFAs – Nikki Thurston of Cloud 9 Admin

Nikki got in touch with us and asked if she could share her specialist niche – it seemed logical to use her financial background to find new clients, and it’s worked out really well!  If you would like to feature … Continue reading

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Planning a conference?

Our good friends over at Trinity Conferences have joined with SVA to help virtual assistants organising conferences or events.  They have set up a specialist team to deal with VA enquiries, just email: VAhelpline@trinityconferences.co.uk There are plenty of things to … Continue reading

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A day in the life…..A virtual assistant on the high seas – well, the canal really!

My name is Bernadette Jones and I have been a virtual assistant for the last two and a half years.  I am forty eight years old, and I live with my partner and my twenty year old son, in Birmingham, … Continue reading

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A day in the life of… A Rural Virtual Assistant

Carole Meyrick, Office Stuff – www.office-stuff.biz Age: Over 21! I was born in London of Scottish parentage, and spent my first 18 years in Le Havre, France.  The family moved to Scotland in 1971 where I completed my secretarial education … Continue reading

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