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
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
Protected: SVA Premier: Dec 2011 Developing your niche
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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
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…
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
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
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
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
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