productivity

3 Tools to Collaborate Better with Your Virtual Assistant Clients

Online collaboration is something that needs to be navigated well, in order to cultivate a healthy client-VA relationship. Being able to work well together while managing different schedules and workloads is the key to getting things done. The biggest time waster in virtual relationships is a lack of communication, so you are going to want to brush up on your communication skills if you want to be an amazing Virtual Assistant who helps your clients get things done right, theRead More »3 Tools to Collaborate Better with Your Virtual Assistant Clients

5 Routines To Implement Now To Make You a More Efficient VA

If you are not working with regular routines in your VA business, and instead handling everything ‘as it comes up’, you are probably wasting time and risking burnout. Routines are an excellent way to bring regularity into your VA business. All business owners have lots of balls in the air, and it’s important to manage them well regularly, so none of them drop. One of the best ways you can manage your ever-changing workload is to implement regular routines thatRead More »5 Routines To Implement Now To Make You a More Efficient VA

How to Prioritize Your Virtual Assistant Tasks So You Get More Done

Prioritizing your task list is a good idea when you have a lot of things to get done. What kind of system do you use to keep your VA business organized? As a Virtual Assistant, we often have many people throwing tasks and things to do our way – and that can get out of hand very quickly. And of course, the squeaky wheel often gets the grease – so sometimes the pushier clients try to tell us when weRead More »How to Prioritize Your Virtual Assistant Tasks So You Get More Done

Just One Hour Can Make a Difference in Your VA Business

It is often said that time is a non-renewable resource, especially in your Virtual Assistant business where time is money. If you waste an hour - whether it's an hour a day, a week or a month, you could be wasting valuable time. Many VAs bill their clients by the hour, so it stands to reason that they are hyper-aware of time - but are still not always able to control it well. When we don't have a lot ofRead More »Just One Hour Can Make a Difference in Your VA Business

5 Important Reasons to Document Your Business Procedures

Creating business procedures for your Virtual Assistant business helps you with more than just productivity. "The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization." - Calvin Coolidge When I work with Virtual Assistants to help them make their business better, we often talk about developing standard operating procedures. Many VAs don’t have something like this in their business. They often feel that if they are the only one doing things that it’s not necessary. But I’ve gotRead More »5 Important Reasons to Document Your Business Procedures

How to Get Your Groove Back

It can be difficult to find that productive groove you once had. It happens when you’re dealing with burn out. It also occurs when you’re coming back from a vacation or time away from your business. So how do you find that productive groove? Where do you find the motivation and the enthusiasm to get back into the swing of things? 1. Choose Just One Small Thing and Focus on It – One of the reasons it can be trickyRead More »How to Get Your Groove Back