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Marketing Friday: 5 more tips to get more clients!
Typing Tips: The discount shopper
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. Keep an eye out every Tuesday in the coming weeks!!!
- The discount shopper
I’m sure you think I’m going to tell you to fire this client on the spot – surprisingly I’m not. I’m going to ask you to weigh up how much hassle they are. On the plus side: You know their work, their accent, how to format everything and you don’t need to do any work to get them as a client. You may well be getting a larger volume of work from them than from other clients.
On the negative side: It’s less than your standard rate. But your standard rate should have an element of prospecting worked into it – the element that pays for you to find and impress new clients, market your business and future-proof it. Unless this client is actively stopping you from seeking out new, higher paying clients, keep them.
What you need to avoid is the discount costing you money though – make sure your “rock bottom rate” is still sustainable for you to outsource the work if necessary and make a small profit.
Marketing Friday: Market your Virtual Assistant Business
Here are five ideas which you can work on today – Marketing Friday – to get more business next week! Continue reading
Why Every Work At Home Mum Needs To Delegate, And The Main Reason Most Don’t
Kim Constable
Most mums, especially work at home mums, spend much of their lives trying to “fit it all in”.
Our To-Do list is endless and there always seems to be a long list of tasks to complete, which incredibly, never seems to get any smaller.
It can be hard knowing which tasks to tackle first. And so rather than tackling the jobs that are the best use of our time that day, we end up doing the ones that are easiest in the moment, but that don’t necessarily move us towards a long term goal. Continue reading
Posted in How To, Time Management
Tagged delegate, time management, WAHM, work from home
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Virtual Assistant Blogging Ideas for April:
Each month we’ll be posting a few ideas about what you can blog about – please feel free to add your own ideas below in the comments (or include a sneaky Googlicious link to your own blog!)
Virtual Assistant blog ideas for April Continue reading
Typing Tips: Security
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. Keep an eye out every Tuesday in the coming weeks!!!
- Security
This is a major concern for clients – and one that is easily overcome. Most VAs are already using secure email addresses rather than gmail or yahoo etc. You also tend to be registered for Data Protection and known what your responsibilities are in keeping client data safe. You may also have additional security built into your systems such as cloud storage/back up, a system of work which separates client files, confidentiality agreements or additional firewalls and security on your computer. Tell your clients about them!
Top tips for Outsourcing: Job Description
Clients and VAs often complain to us about the quality of outsourcer there is out there… Here at SVA we want to promote best practice so that it reflects well on the whole industry, so we put together some tips on how to outsource your work safely. Continue reading
Marketing Friday: Get more clients for your virtual assistant business
Here are five ideas which you can work on today – Marketing Friday – to get more business next week! Continue reading
Typing Tips: Uploads
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. Keep an eye out every Tuesday in the coming weeks!!! Continue reading
Do you know a FANTASTIC virtual assistant?
From experience, I know that VAs are rather backwards about coming forwards – they won’t boast about their virtual assistant skills and tend to think that everyone else is doing better than them… It’s not true! There are some fantastic VAs out there, and we’d love to shout about them in the UK! Continue reading
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