Jade asked me this: Do all people who search for a VA in the AssistU community find someone to work with? Unfortunately, not. With the Registry, our free, DIY referral service, it’s often because the client doesn’t really know enough to do the search well....
As busy people, it’s easy to get wrapped up in shooting off short texts and email answers, forgoing “please” and “thank you,” to save a minute, and hoping the people we’re communicating with know how highly we esteem them. Doing that becomes a habit, and that...
We all need money. As business owners, we need to make money (or we won’t be in business). And, during a pandemic, I believe that those of us with viable businesses have an ethical obligation to do our level best to stay in business and do as much for the economy as...
One of the things we did at AssistU when we created the virtual assistance profession in the 90s was dismantle the traditional hierarchy of the Boss and assistant (Big B, little a). In its place, we created a relationship of equality–two professionals (one the...
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