How to accept payments from clients as a Virtual Assistant

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You wake up one morning and eagerly check your emails. Has that client got back to you yet - the one you met last week who you REALLY want to work with? Yes! You feel a surge of excitement as you click open the email. To your dismay, it looks like this client wants you to do something you’re not comfortable or familiar with. It could be redesigning a website, setting up a database, creating a flyer - whatever it is, it’s out of your comfort zone. What to do?

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When you’re starting up your Virtual Assistant business, you’ll want to attract clients whilst minimizing the impact on your purse strings. Here are 7 very powerful marketing tips that you can start using immediately to get your business off the ground. They cost either nothing or very little in terms of cash outlay, but do require an investment of your time.

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Questions from a Virtual Assistant: “I am starting to have a problem with motivation. When I first started upon my quest to become a Virtual Assistant, I read everything in sight, took many notes, and subscribed to all I could. I even created a notebook and studied as if I were in college again. But now my eagerness and motivation seems to be tapering, and I am afraid I may lose sight of my goal and stop it before it even begins.”

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When you’re running your own business from home, sooner or later you’ll realise that your income is limited by the number of hours you can physically work per week. What if you had a team of subcontractors working for you? Just think how many more clients you’d be able to assist and how much your business would grow. Here’s a question about this very subject…

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I received this question from a lady who is nervous about starting her Virtual Assistant business: “I am 50 years old and and have been working as an administrator for over 25 years now with 15 years of banking experience as well. I love to work and I just do not care for the corporate world. I just want to do my job and be left alone while I do it. I am not comfortable working for myself, but it seems the way to go. My main problem is that I am nervous. I want to jump into this one minute but the next minute, I stop because I do not know where to start, or how to get out there.”

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Question from a future VA: “I am very interested in getting started. My associate at work and I were thinking of doing Virtual Assistant as a “team” . Any suggestions on that idea? Has that proven to be successful, or would be better off alone?”

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I was recently interviewed by Leva Duell who runs a successful secretarial services business in California, USA.
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