VA Helper

Lorem Ipsum Alternatives for Project Mockups and Proposals

Lorem Ipsum text refers to the placeholder text that is often used in project mockups for design, whether that's a brochure design, a website design, or even the layout for what will become a PDF report. Pasting in some Lorem Ipsum content to the design helps your clients to visualize what the final project might look like once it's all filled in with their own content. But just because you're using dummy text doesn't mean it has to be boring. It doesn't even have to be the standard Latin … [Read More...]

Invoicing and Accounting Tools for Virtual Assistants and Freelancers

By Loretta 1 Comment

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...]

How to Grow Your Business When You Have a Busy Schedule

By Rita Ester Leave a Comment

Do you get overwhelmed by all the “stuff” you need to do in your business… and trying to fit it into your daily schedule is frustrating? If you’re like me, you’re trying to answer emails in between tasks at your 9-5, watch webinars on your lunch break and squeeze in client work any time you can… It wasn’t too long ago that I was creating Facebook Ad graphics for a client at 2 am - only to wake up again the next morning and trudge back into the office - at a job I hated… So how do you do … [Read More...]

3 Common Business Content Creation Struggles and How to Avoid Them

By Loretta Leave a Comment

Original content is the lifeblood of the internet. It’s what makes the search engine bots happy, it’s what gives you good search engine rankings, and ultimately it’s what brings potential new clients to your door. No doubt about it…creating lots of content is hard work and it’s a continual process. There are lots of right and wrong ways to create content – too many to list – but here are the three biggest downfalls to anyone who writes their own website content. Not Writing Often … [Read More...]

Tips, Ideas, and Resources to Help Virtual Assistants Make the Best Use of their Time

Most Recently Posted on the Blog: