My kids think I'm famous because they can see my face on the website.

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Kylie Short
Tilda Virtual Services - Making virtual personal

Kylie,
Congratulations on being highlighted. You have certainly earned it. And I must say, it really takes special skill to pull off hot pink on your website so professionally! It looks great!

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Rosanna Tussey
OfficeSupportNow.com
The Virtual Assistant Connection - A blog for VAs

This interview was fantastic, thanks.

This interview was very informative...and congrats Kylie on the nomination. I was wondering, how did you get into web design from a bookingkeeping/accounting background? Did it just happen after you started your business or before?

Hi Mel

I was studying education at university and we had to design an online portfolio for an assessment task. I loved it and did nothing about it at the time. My focus was on my degree.

Once I started my business I knew that I wanted a website and my husband gave me the confidence to design my first one. From there it snowballed into playing with code and tweaking. Soon I had clients asking me to fix their newsletters then design their newsletters and eventually their websites. I always made sure they knew I was inexperienced but they would always reply "Kylie, we know you, if you don't know how to do it you'll find out" and that's exactly what I did.

I'm now back at college (TAFE here in Australia) studying website design to 'fill the gaps'. I'm loving it!!!! My degree is on the backburner but I just sent in the mail today an application to transfer to an adult education major so I can teach/train adults instead of children next year. I still do bookkeeping but only select clients and AFTER seeing their file. I hate fixing messy bookkeeping and I'm glad to say that I'm in a position to say, 'sorry - no I don't think so'.

Kylie

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Kylie Short
Tilda Virtual Services - Making virtual personal

Great interview, it feels really good knowing that there are people out there with similar goals going through similar experiences. Very inspiring.

Trena

Hi Kylie,

I have just read your article - you are an inspiration to me. I started my VA business in February, so to read about your experiences is extremley helpful. Thank you for sharing!!

Regards,
Barb