I started up my virtual assistant business in November of 2007. That’s a mere 2.5 years ago, yet so much has changed. I still consider myself a virtual assistant, but hardly ever use the term anymore.

In the early innocence of way back in ‘07, a virtual assistant was someone helping businesses and professionals from a remote location. I was drawn to the industry because I had served as an administrator all my adult life and I loved the idea of working it as my own business, in which I could maximize my time and skills by serving more than one boss at a time. So much of an administrative assistant’s time is wasted sitting in the office, waiting for the boss to get it together. I was never any good at pretending to be busy.

Like many of my colleagues in the industry, however, my good intentions ran headlong into a... Click here to read the rest of this post at the Virtual Assistance and You Blog.

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