My Life as a Part-Time Virtual Assistant



Being a full-time virtual assistant (VA) is probably more fulfilling than being a part-time virtual assistant. I can only imagine the things that I could do with more time. I started my virtual assistant business part-time because I have to maintain my current salary in order to support my family. However, being part-time keeps my business from growing in many ways.

The difference between being a full-time virtual assistant vs. a part-time virtual assistant means that I would be able to focus more time on the following tasks:

More traditional advertising and networking - With a small to non-existent budget, I do a lot of advertising myself. A...

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I wrote this blog in response to tweets my fellow Virtual Assistants (VA's) and I were exchanging regarding the misconceptions of Virtual Assistants. It seems that there is a great disparity between what we believe a Virtual Assistant to be and what the public perceives a Virtual Assistant to be.

While starting my business I repeatedly stumbled upon the term Virtual Assistant and found that the description matched the core of what my business was about. However, I was skeptical about using the term and finally decided that I was doing The Virtual Assistance Community an injustice by not using the term. Just because the terms "virtual" and "assistant" may be misleading to our field, my fellow VA's will prove...

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