As a VA business owner you know what’s involved in being a VA or OBM (Online Business Manager) for someone else but if the workload is increasing, what’s next for you? Will you close your books and turn that work away or will you get someone else in to assist you? Or, do you see the potential in expanding your service offerings by bringing on other contractors (or subcontractors) who have those skills?
Read MoreWhen you first began your VA business it’s likely that your budget was tight, and you were overwhelmed with all that goes into setting up your business. Setting up your ABN, creating a website and socials, and perhaps you didn’t quite know where your first client was going to come from. I almost feel the stress just writing that down.
Read MoreAs a social media manager, you help businesses capitalise on the popularity of various social media platforms by managing the marketing, branding and engagement for the business on those platforms. You have an important role to play as a professional and as such need to have a social media management agreement to outline the terms of your work and protect yourself.
Read MoreAs we move further into doing more online, the opportunities available to set yourself up from home with a remote business has never been more timely. A lot of women I come across in the online world consider starting a virtual assistant business, and then when they have been working for a while they consider niching. One popular area that I see people specialise in is resume writing.
Read MoreI have been seeing a lot of different expressions in virtual assistant (VA) land of late. Most noticeably the terms Online Business Manager (OBM) and Social Media Manager (SMM).
Apart from a bunch of acronyms that are hard to remember, what does this mean? Should you call yourself a VA or something else and what does it translate into in terms of the legal steps you need to take to set up and run your business.
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