The VA Success Cafe: Episode 14
In your Virtual Assistance business you will need basic tools to re-create the environment you once had when you were employed. What are some of the tools that you need? A good place to start is to take stock of technology that you already own before begin making purchases.
I am very interested in starting my own VA business. I have more than enough skills I am just clueless as to how to even begin.
Hello Carolyn, I certainly understand how you feel. This may provide some of the solutions that you are looking for. Here are a few posts to check out:
https://www.eatova.com/2013/03/15/if-i-were-a-new-va-id-start-here/
https://www.eatova.com/2011/07/22/five-keys-to-a-stable-foundation-for-your-business/
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I work from a home office that has a seperate entrance, windows to the outside, and a door that can be shut on my homelife. In that office I have a Macbook Pro, three (3) laptops, an iPad, a wireless printer, stand-alone fax machine, Internet, most major software, a transcription machine, a large desk with ‘enough’ workspace and, of course, that ever present smartphone. As someone already stated, I’m blessed to have much, much more than I had in my former workplace. The most necessary to me? I don’t know how I’d function without that smartphone! The most unnecessary? The stand-alone fax machine……
Hello Lloyce,
You are rockin and rollin. Thank you for sharing your thoughts here. How long have you been running your VA business? What are some of the challenges that you are trying to overcome at this time?