Hello, my name is Sandra and I am proud to be a Professional Virtual Assistant! I have worked in the Virtual Assisting Industry as an independent VA and through a Virtual Staffing Agency (VSA). I have done Sales and Customer Service for a VSA and I have been a client with a VA Team of my own. I've seen it from every angle! I have developed a passion not only for this industry but also for mentoring and training women who want to have successful VA Businesses.
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Ah, a new year! A time for reflection upon the last and looking forward to the new. This year I’m keeping my resolutions and goals simple.
Several years ago I stumbled across this poem. I used to read it every morning but somehow got out of the habit. This year I’m getting back in that habit. [...]
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This article was inspired by Jon Morrow’s post, On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas, on Copyblogger - thank you Jon and Jon’s Mom for your courage and determination.
It’s been 10 days since my furnace thermostat shot sparks and smoke at me and the furnace breathed it’s [...]
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I’m a big fan of Copyblogger. I enjoy reading it and have learned a lot. One of my favorite contributing writers is James Chartrand of Men with Pens.
Yesterday James published one of the most thought provoking articles I’ve read in a long time - Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants.
It clearly struck a cord with [...]
I saw a commercial for a TV special about Sheryl Crow. It showed a snippet of an interview she had done and her words caught my attention. She started by saying something about people not remembering what you wore or what you said but then she said, “What’s important is that you make music you [...]
Besides the obvious - don’t give up.
I’ve been reading this wonderful book by Daniel Defoe and there is much to learn here. The lesson that really strikes me is that we truly can learn and do anything once we set our mind to it.
Crusoe talks about never having handled a tool in his life and [...]
Few people will notice that this post is the first one in a few months. That’s because I’m still feeling my way along in the blogosphere so I don’t have a lot of traffic. Actually, I’m still feeling my way in the world of Internet Business. I really love it and I’m very passionate about [...]
I’ve become a big fan of Fast Company - as they describe it, this online magazine “Covers the new economy and workplace for people who believe in fusing tough-minded performance with human values.” Think Michael Phelps meets The Cluetrain Manifesto. I don’t read it “cover to cover” but every morning there is at least one [...]
I used to work for Warren Buffett.
Ok, well not directly for him but I was a Real Estate Agent for a Brokerage that was owned by Berkshire Hathaway. At the time, I wasn’t impressed. One day I worked for a locally owned business in my home town and the next I worked for a corporation [...]
It seems that multitasking has become a way of life. It shows up in job descriptions and is proudly displayed on resumes. But is multitasking really such a good idea? The idea is to do more in less time but is it counter-productive?
There is an assumption that with the technological advances of the computer and [...]
The meaning of the term Virtual Assistant seems to have gotten lost in a sea of logistics and semantics that instead of clarifying and defining has confused the issue even more. The term Virtual Assistant has become a generic one that can mean almost anything including Freelancer, Independent Contractor, Personal Assistant, Telecommuter, Secretary, Administrative [...]
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