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Virtual Assistant vacancies?

Virtual Assistant vacancies?

Question:

Ive tried using google, does anyone know where I could look?

Thank you.

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I really like oDesk. 

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Hi,
If you are looking for some good resources to find virtual assistant jobs you can look for sites like freelancer.com, elance.com, virtualassistantforums.com, vadirectory.net also if you are new to this field you will be able to learn from this site(virtualassistantforums). I hope this will help you out.
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If you’re looking to hire a virtual assistant I can absolutely help! I just went into business for myself as a virtual assistant.

If you know anyone who may be in need of a virtual assistant as well please pass it along.

Thank you!

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If you’re looking to become a virtual assistant, you could take a look at elance. That is also a good place to hire one. If you need more information, just contact me.

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Posted January 3rd, 2011 by va and filed in Blog

Find Work as a Virtual Assistant

I think one of the best ways to find work as a Virtual Assistant is to specialize in a specific skill set that solves a specific problem that you know many small businesses have.  Then you need to still promote yourself.

I have worked with many remote workers for many years and I have never hired a virtual assistant.  Instead, I have hired writers, programmers, book keepers, WordPress specialists, SEO and Linking experts, social media specialists and more.  But I am not sure what I would ask a virtual assistant to do.

Sure, there are times I wish I had one, but without a well defined set of tasks, I would feel like I had to be creative to keep the virtual assistant busy.

Instead, I hire people that can solve specific problems for me.  I do not hire the cheapest person – instead I hire the best person that can solve the problem within my expected budget.

Do you see the difference?  If you are trying to find work as a virtual assistant you may be able to switch your offering to something more specific and find that it is a lot easier to find work at home opportunities.

 

Posted December 1st, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

Virtual Assistant System

If you want to succeed with a virtual assistant, you need to build a virtual assistant system.  This is just like any other business system and it is the key to building a business that works.

Your virtual assisstant needs a better system because they are not sitting down in your conference room and able to white board out the process with you or ask you questions.

What you get as a benefit from having a virtual assistant, namely, lower cost and remote location, also works against thier ability to grasp your business processes.  But if you understand this, you can build better training and documented systems so that you can be more successful with your VA.

 

 

Posted October 31st, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

I would love somebody to tell me of a good paying online job, I am good in Virtual assistant and Data enty?

I would love somebody to tell me of a good paying online job, I am good in Virtual assistant and Data enty?

Question:

Guys I am tired of searching for an online job, business and/or career. I have done this for the last 6years and all I got was scams, scams and scams. I don’t want affiliate marketing, a program that depends on refferals to get commissions, or a place for bidding. All these I have tried. Bidding is so competitive and mostly no jobs, I need data entry or Virtual assistant, writing and anyother that can pay me well. Don’t include forex. Anybody that can help me? or is already doing it and would love my help? I want to make money online, be it parttime or fulltime, I AM READY. Thanks

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Try being an entrepreneur – for example, you can build a team of virtual assistants and you manage them.  Then package the services so they are easier to sell and get out and sell them.  for example, link building, article writing and other Internet Marketing skills are in demand.

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try answering surveys online. would pay good but not to make a living but extra money.
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You more than likely won’t find any legit data entry jobs online. I only know of two real data entry companies online and they haven’t been hiring for a while now.

As for virtual assistant jobs they aren’t too tough to find. They usually aren’t advertised though, because there are already so many applicants. Honestly the best way to find those jobs is to do a search for virtual assistant then go through all the sites and see which ones are accepting resumes. It’s very tedious, but it’s the best way to find the real jobs.

Source: Yahoo! Answers

Posted September 12th, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

Is Virtual Assistant a Bad Career?

I know that from past posts, this one will no doubt cause some negative comments back.  I think being a virtual assistant is great.  However, it is a weird “catch all” kind of job description.

You are most likely going to get paid much more by being something else more specialized.  Here are some titles I would pay more for, even though the job would be exactly the same.

  • Virtual Project Manager
  • Virtual Support Specialist
  • Virtual Social Media Assistant
  • Virtual Marketing Assistant
  • Backlinking Specialist
  • Virtual Affiliate Manager
  • Virtual Bookkeeper

You can see that any of those jobs would consist of the same kinds of activities that many virtual assistants do, but they appear to be more valuable because they are focused and make me, as a buyer, feel like you know what you are doing.

Posted September 3rd, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

oDesk

oDesk is a great outsourcing method to get work done.

I have recommended them for years.

I have had mostly bad results with people I have tried to outsource work to from craigslist and other places, but I have never had a bad experience with oDesk.

Do not get me wrong, I am careful about hiring.  I check references.  I do smaller projects and then expand on them.  I do not assume someone is good until I try it out.

But I have gotten great results with this marketplace of virtual assistants, programmers and graphic designers.

I have one person working for me via oDesk that has been with me almost two years.

I have worked with people in Russia, Philippines, India, Pakistan and Romania to get programming and virtual assistant stuff done and I have always gotten good, and sometimes great, results.

You should just try it.  Even if you are a virtual assistant – go try building a team there because you will be able to pass on more value to your clients.

Visit www.odesk.com and check out the great tools and members they have.

Posted August 9th, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

Virtual Assistant News

Here are just a few of the virtual assistant companies making the news today. 

Virtual Assistant Services

Albany – First of all, we want to know that who the virtual assistant is? They are not the people who just sit in houses and work, but they are doing something different. They use their own office and equipments and gives skilled services wherever there is a need.

  

My6Sense: The Virtual Assistant

Imagine a robot intuitively knowing what you need, or having a tool that suggests options you might be interested in. Pretty sci-fi, right? Well, not really. My6Sense is a predictive application that has brought the future to today. With the overwhelming volume of information streaming from sources such as Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds directly [...] Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search …

  

Davinci Virtual Assistant Helps Start-up Company Grow and Prosper

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwire – Aug. 3, 2010) – Founded less than a month ago, new business start-up, 93 Red, has found that using the services of a Davinci Virtual PA and Telephone Answering Service has already helped the company to firmly establish itself as a key player in the print, design and communications business.

 

Virtual assistants, no matter where you find them can really help your business grow.

 

Posted August 6th, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

Basic Advice To Hire A Virtual Assistant

 

Are you thinking about how to hire a virtual assistant? You should since they can make your business much more profitable.

They can really help you with your Internet Marketing. It is important to grow your business and with a little work you can find a cheap virtual assistant if you are willing to do some training and coaching.

This article is not a comprehensive guide, yet it will be at minimum a great place to start learning about it.

Here are the basics for hiring a virtual assistant.

 

The first step you need to decide is if you want to hire a virtual assistant oversees or in the US. This will be the core of all other things you do. The virtual assistant costs and your expectations should be very different if you are hiring a virtual assistant philippines worker or a certified virtual assistant in the US with marketing training.

The next thing that you should do is decide on the marketing activities they are going to be doing for you. It is going to be an important element to your training. The use of this in conjunction with the 1st item should help you get much faster results.

Keep in mind that there are some road blocks you most likely will find challenging the more advanced you become. For example, you may try several people and find that none of them work well for you. That can slow you down. However, don’t let the issue stop you. It can work but often you get better at hiring virtual assitants, training them and working with them over time.

The third thing is all about the long term relationship you build. Missing this most likely will have a negative effect on your ability to be profitable.  If you need to keep replacing people and training people you  may never get to the point of growing your business.

 

If you want to be sure about it, you have to start to learn different aspects of the topic. Consider visiting some of the vendors you see in the side bar of this post because they offer training,  virtual assistant outsourcing and even virtual assistant business plans to help you make more money with your virtual worker faster.

 

Posted August 5th, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

Need Solid Ideas for a Home-based Business?

Need Solid Ideas for a Home-based Business?

Question:

I’m looking for good ideas on what type of home-based business to start-up. I’ve was recently “laid off” but I have funds put aside. Really, I don’t wish to go back to working for someone else. I would like to hear about some solid, proven, home business or perhaps franchises that can be run from home maybe a computer/internet based service business. No MLM, affiliates programs, pyramid schemes or anything of the sort.

Ideas that have crossed my mind:

Blogging (I live in a tourist town and thought there might be opportunity in providing info about events in town).
Online tutoring (Spanish, software programs like Photoshop).
Domain name selling (like a reseller)
Web site building (would have to learn web design first)
Virtual Office Assistant.
Video Resume Service

I’m not sure which path to take right now but I’m looking for good solid ideas and I’ll take this “time off” to research ‘em and follow what looks like it may lead some where.

Thanks everyone.

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Decide on an in demand service and offer that service.  For example, being a virtual assistant is fine but it is so vague that people do not always understand the value.   That is why getting social media certification or becoming a lead generation expert have more merit.

Also, the more specific you are the easier it usually is to sell your services.

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Almost all successful marketing stories has the common element of having an organized and effective marketing plan, which serves as the backbone for the product or service life cycle.Often a small affiliate
business that started with the premise of providing a little extra income ends up out-performing one’s regular income.

I think you have already listed the required measures thar you should take.

Thanks

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I’ve recently got into affiliate marketing. Not exactly making big money yet, but I have made some sales even though I have not been in it long. There is a lot to learn, and I have been reading a lot on forums like Warrior Forum.

Unless you come up with some new idea though, anything you do is going to be competitive with the economy the way it is any so many who want to work from home..

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I understand what you mean as I have just recently been put into the same boat. I recently got laid off and now our 2 income family is down to 1 income. My husband and I started a business early in January and even though we made back our initial investment (and more), we haven’t had the proper time to devote to the business until now. I love being able to work from home and have time for my family. Things were little slow the first week and a half but now that I’ve been working at it I’m doing a little better and progressing. There’s no pie in the sky and no get rich quick scheme here but with persistence and some work we are on our way to building a family business that’s will-able, transferable, and sell-able (if we choose). I love it because I can leave it to my son and his children and their children. I hope my response helped you in some way. Feel free to reply! www.DeliveringOnThePromise.com/HealthyAn…

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Posted August 5th, 2010 by va and filed in Blog

Virtual Assistant Outsourcing

One of the most useful outsourcing virtual assistant things a US VA can bring to the table is if they have built a team of virtual assistants in other countries.

The reason this is so valuable is that it allows them to get more work done at a lower cost, which brings the value up for clients.

The American VA should be doing sales, project management and being the Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant Expert that trains the virtual marketing staff and assures quality work.

Now that is general advice, but every client is different.  For example, I have a very technical client that requires writing of a very technical nature.  You are not going to outsource blog writing like that for $2 an hour.  However, you might outsource research for that price and then write the articles yourself.

The key to doing this well is to leverage your skills and high value time and leverage the lower cost of Virtual Assistants in the Philippines to help you bring down your costs and grow your virtual marketing assistant business.

One of the reasons I decided to promote replaceyourself.com is that they will teach business owners but also US virtual assistants how to build that team and get great web marketing results.

Posted August 4th, 2010 by va and filed in Blog
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