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A Day in the Life.......

kristie • Oct 04, 2020

What is a Virtual Assistant (VA), I hear you ask?  

A VA is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely, usually from a suitably equipped home office. VAs come in all shapes and sizes, there is no one size fits all, we all have good general admin. skills but always specialise in one or two disciplines for our own satisfaction and sanity, and provide the expertise that most benefits our clients. The best service isn’t provided by a ‘Jack or Jill of all trades’, clients come in many different forms and have diverse and varied needs and expectations, so it’s better to provide a focused and bespoke service, and adapt to the real needs of the customer.  It’s always good working with someone who loves what they do and isn’t bogged down or stressed by a workload that doesn’t provide any form of stimulus or engagement. 


VAs give you time to concentrate on what you do best

None of what I do is rocket science, but it does one very important thing, it gives you access to a range of expertise and experiences that you may or may not have, an extra hand without all the rigmarole and costs associated with employing and integrating a new member of staff.  VAs release time for you to concentrate on what you do best, your business, we can provide a listening ear and sounding board for your issues and ideas, and when you work on your own that’s a nice thing to have. 


 As a VA, no two days are the same, and I’d like to share what I’ve been doing for my client’s and give you an insight into me and what it’s like to be a VA and the unseen background work that makes the service worthwhile. 


A Typical day for me


Here’s a typical day for me, hour by hour, calls, contract preparation and estimates for new clients, marketing, networking, writing newsletters, keeping website up to date, billable client work, etc.. 

Like any self-employment not every hour of a every VAs day is filled will billable content, of course some days are all about income, but many are devoted to marketing, networking, self-improvement, research and more. 


This week I’ve been using my experience and knowledge of the travel industry

This week I’ve been using my experience and knowledge of the travel industry to support a lovely lady travel consultant, freeing up her time to concentrate on the complications created  by COVID-19 and supporting her clients to overcome some very stressful issues that none of us have experienced before. Travel administration is very time consuming and requires extremely specific system knowledge to process paperwork and with me taking care of that part of her business, she can provide the best support and service for her customers. 

I have a client in the complimentary health sector 


I have a client in the complimentary health sector and have thoroughly enjoyed collaborating on social media posts, rebranding, and scheduling the posts on Facebook through to the end of September. In addition, I’ve created a health advisory cheat sheet for her to share, and just to clarify this does not mean I am a Marketing genius, I’m certainly not, the client provided all the content and an idea of how it should be laid out and I researched the best options to fit the brief and made her idea a reality. 

 

I’m currently building up my business and have been working very hard on expanding my knowledge of working in the Digital World and thereby improve the service I can offer.  If you know someone who wants to take advantage of that environment and either doesn’t have the time to develop that process or maybe the ability or inclination, then please send them my way as I would love to help get their message out there. With my network links, if I’m not able to provide what they’re looking for, I’m sure I can find someone who does, to work with or who can work directly with them. Because I genuinely believe in helping others in mutually beneficial collaborations, I would very much appreciate any assistance you can provide and maybe we can reciprocate down the line. 

Be a Good Friend……..


Part of my own business model will be to use my contacts in the VA World to support my own business when workload becomes an issue, even with an Associate relationship if a client is happy with that option. 


Do you know anyone who is struggling to find time to complete all the essential tasks that make a business run? A conversation costs nothing, so why not help them find some peace of mind, the time to concentrate on their core business, and do what they’re passionate about. The time they save will not only help pay the bills but will probably generate more turnover and a better profit.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions and any comments you have will be much appreciated so that I can address these in future blogs and improve the content. 


Your help is much appreciated, so please pass on my details. 


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