Hi there,

I am about to launch my VA business, and I also work out of home 3 days per week (with fingers crossed that the VA business works out well and I can resign!) My husband is a 7 day shift worker so I will be spreading my VA hours across 7 days around my external job hours, and my husband's shift hours (so he can watch our 2 little girls) - including evenings and weekends.

How do others handle contact from clients while at their external job? I will be getting mobile email, so I can shoot off a quick acknowledgement email back to the client advising that I will respond later on. What about phone calls while I'm at my other job? I was thinking of having a voicemail along the lines of "I am attending to another matter and will return your call by COB today".

Also, even though I am plan to work evenings and weekends, I do not want phone calls then - any advice as to how to structure website wording for this?

Ahhhh so much to learn!!

Cheers,
Angela

Good question Angela! I also about to launch and was wonder some of the same things you are....like how to you juggle both out of home job and VA business. Hopefully we will get some good advice from the veteran VA's

Try searching the forum for those of us who work a full-time or 9-5 job (keyword 9-5 should get some good links). There are quite a few of us working our VA biz around a full-time job!

I work on Goddess from 7:00-8:30am, and 7:00-9:00pm M-F and 8-noon Saturdays. I check/respond to voicemail/email during morning and afternoon breaks and at lunch time. I use my cell phone as my business line and encourage my clients to use email for contact. i DON'T answer my cell phone EVER! My default ring is 30-seconds-of-silence so the boss doesn't get annoyed by all of my personal calls (he doesn't hear them ). Also, the boss doesn't know Goddess even exists...

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