Virtual Assistant Jobs

Jobs that almost any starting out VA can do.

There are a number of odd Virtual Assistants end up doing, some are fun and some are kind of tedious. But these are the kind of jobs you can do until you find your specialty:

  • Appointment and meeting schedules
  • Blog writing (you should attempt to learn how to set one of these up for yourself.)
  • Bookkeeping Records
  • Concierge services (ordering services and deliveries for clients online)
  • Data Entry
  • Editing someone’s website, newsletter, or e-zine content
  • Gift orders and/or wish lists
  • Remote PC support
  • Research target markets for advertisers
  • Travel Arrangements
  • Setup business facebook profiles,
  • Writing articles, eBooks and freelance writing

Think of it this way: sometimes 24 hours in one day just isn’t enough.

To Do List

As a virtual assistant, you work to help other professionals live a balanced life too.

I work for Virtual IT Assistants which is a company that technical virtual assistants that setup web 2.0 technology to work for you.
See? It all looks pretty simple right? Experience will teach you how to do these this in the most efficient ways possible. You’ll make your clients happy because they won’t have to do these jobs. Your goal should be to become efficient in a specific area to be able to market yourself and streamline your business.

Free E-mail for Business

Email is the single most important tool that you will use in your new virtual office. You will use it for communication, record keeping and scheduling. The biggest and best free e-mail providers are yahoo, hotmail, and google’s gmail. Even if you already have an e-mail address, you really should set up a separate e-mail address account for your work at home. You are less likely to miss important messages from clients when they are not mixed in the same inbox as your friend’s forwards and your J Crew e-subscription right? You should look for e-mail that is free (at first of course, later if you have extra money you can spend whatever you want on e-mail. Heck, maybe you’ll be able to pay someone else to deal with your e-mail for you!) Ok, back to reality. Look for a service that gives you lots of space, and a free calendar to keep track of appointments and remind you to send your clients updates etc.

Email

Finding Your Spiritual Path

On Oprah Show Series “Best Life Week”:

Happiness is about Being Connected, Present, and Alive
Breath yourself into this present moment.

Normal Thoughts About Change:

“This isn’t supposed to happen to me.”
So have peace in knowing that everything changes. New life can only come when things change and when things/situations/businesses die.
 
-moved here from TalkShowWisdom.blogger.com

Twitter Tools

See Twitter Tools Version 2 post for more twitter tools.

Reach & keep followers on twitter with these tools!

FYI- due to some twitter updates lately I have had a little trouble with some of the auto apps. You might want to monitor it over the next few days to make sure your tweets get sent.

  1. Friend or Follow – There are some peeps who go and mass follow a bunch of ppl then, mass unfollow after they nab the followback. That is SO CHEATING! Find out if people unfollowed you (then unfollow those twits!) :)
  2. Top Twitter Followers – Follow them, they’ll follow u!
  3. Mr.Tweet – build a network of peeps w/ similar interests. Mr. Tweet is no more…
    Their website says: Hi there! Thanks for making MrTweet one of the most popular Twitter services.
    Now that Twitter has introduced their own recommendation engine, we consider our life goal completed”
    – updated 2-8-2011
  4. TweetLater – Send your new followers a “Thanx 4 the Follow” msg – This is overused
  5. Twuffer – queue up your tweets! Don’t have time to stop by twitter and tweet an important msg to your peeps?
  6. TwitBacks – Get a Twitter BackGround because there is only so much the profile allows you to share about your business < word to the wise, never share too much ’bout yourself !!! >
  7. TwitterFeed - feed your blog posts to twitter automatically with this awesome little app.
  8. Twitter Search! – search for anything peeps are tweeting.
  9. tweeteradder – Boasts “400 followers in a day!” I don’t know about that, but I have gotten about 50 and I just signed up for it! If you get 15 of your friends & followers to signup, you get free VIP status (only for one day though.) It gives you an ID (as you see mine on the link) and when you log back in, you can see if any of your friends signed up for you! This no longer exists.
  10. Follow me, I'll follow you.
    **BTW, try to keep your ratio of followers and following kinda even. If people see that you follow like 500 people, and you only have 50 following you, then there must be something wrong with you and they shouldn’t follow you. **



Electric Car Debate

Remember this great little movie:  “Who Killed the Electric Car?”


Spielautomaten Online polls

Killing the Electric Car that is. . .

This could have been the answer for GM Chrysler.
Betcha they’re really kicking themselves now. :}