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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On New Year’s Eve I posted my first video on this site.
Why?
Because video is an excellent bridge between the “real” world of business and the “virtual” world of the internet.
Because video brings your business (and you) to life.
Because video makes it real.
I firmly believe that businesses that use video not to sell, but to build [...]
The internet has leveled the playing field in many ways - the barriers to entry are nearly non-existent, allowing anyone with a computer and a thought to find an audience. There are a lot of good things about this but of course, there are some precautions that you need to take to protect those thoughts.
I [...]
WooHoo! I followed Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice and I did the thing I feared - I made a video.
What a great way to end 2009 and here’s to a wonderful, fun and prosperous 2010 - for all of us!
~Sandra
Movie Mogul in the Making!
I use Facebook more for fun than business but in today’s Social Media world it is sometimes difficult to separate the two. I think this makes Facebook’s new privacy settings even more important - don’t just take the default’s for granted.
For more on this, check out this article on Fast Company:
Facebook Privacy Update - Don’t [...]
My daughter once called me a Book Worm. I was so flattered until I realized that she didn’t mean it as a compliment.
No matter - I chose to take it as a compliment. When I was a kid, my father would sit and read newspapers and books for hours every evening. So I suppose I [...]
Clearly Internet and computer technology are rewriting the definition of office. My office might be a desk in a room in my home but it might also be my patio table, “my” table at Starbucks or a picnic table in the park.
That’s the good news.
The bad news?
Well, it’s not really bad news but we [...]
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I just read this article on Opera 10 over on FastCompany. I think it has some very interesting implications for Virtual Assistants and their clients. There are a lot of tools that allow us to work virtually but they may all become dinosaurs real fast with Opera Unite.
I need to explore it more, but it [...]
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I was looking for a resource to explain RSS for one of my blogs and found this great video on YouTube. I thought you might find it helpful for your clients who aren’t “Tech Savvy”.
Enjoy!
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