Are you ready to take courage and be confident in your Business? Have you ever been in a situation where you’re scared to do something, but did it anyway? For a lot of us, taking that leap into self-employment and starting our own business was one of those situations where we felt our confidence and […]
If you’ve been in business for a while, you may feel the time is right to raise your prices. However, you may be worried about what your existing customers will think, or are concerned you’re going to have to justify your reasons for raising them. In order to raise your prices, you first need to […]
Confidence is something we all have in ourselves, but often as a Virtual Assistant, we limit it to things we can measure – with grades given from past staff appraisals, awards and generally other people’s input, as we don’t want to appear ‘big headed’ or conceited. But you can learn to have more trust and confidence […]
So many VA’s have said to me: I am absolutely terrified about walking into a room full of strangers. I say, “That’s ok, I still get nervous.” It is perfectly acceptable and normal to get nervous when we go networking. However, they then go to say: “I am not very good at networking, I find […]
This article was written by Carmen MacDougall, previous owner of VACT. Carmen MacDougall came from a corporate background as a PA and Office Manager before establishing her VA business after redundancy. She went on to establish herself as one of the leading trainers on setting up and running a successful Virtual Assistant business through The […]