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This question was posed on Facebook recently by Wendy Maynard and as I hit enter on my reply I thought it might also make a good blog post here and something to explore a little deeper... https://www.facebook.com/WendyGMaynard/posts/10155662083981871 My answer on Wendy's post was: ~ sense of responsibility ~ bills to pay, no matter how many I pay it seems there are more around the corner just waiting to jump out and shout "surprise" ~ feed these kids that call me mom ~ I enjoy work … [Read More...]

Invoicing and Accounting Tools for Your Virtual Assistant Business

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There are probably hundreds of ways to handle invoicing your clients and collecting payments for projects. We've talked about a few of them here before and you may be using something already. New tools are coming into the marketplace all the time with more small businesses doing things in the cloud and using web based services, so I thought we might take a look at what's new out there, what's been updated, and what other people are using. When I first started doing virtual assistant work and … [Read More...]

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I noticed a few virtual assistants asking about how to do this on Facebook, so I thought I would do a quick blog post and include some screenshots, because I remember the first time I tried to find these numbers it wasn't intuitive or easy to locate. There are two places that you'll find the numbers you're looking for. It's actually super easy once you know where to look, but getting there the first time might have you wanting to yell lots of bad words at your computer. Hopefully this … [Read More...]

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You may have seen this message on Facebook already, but I wanted to post it here on the blog as well so it would reach as many people who need to hear it as possible. I keep a list of virtual assistants in my bookmarks so that I can refer clients to others when they need a service I don't offer. I was updating that list recently and I came across about 17 websites that no longer existed, just poof and gone into the void of internet space, and another handful with notices that they were … [Read More...]

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