Serenity Virtual Assistant Services

Today’s Money 911 reporter Jean Chatzky topped her recommended work at home list with Virtual Assistant.

Here is a quote from a posting I read today:

“Virtual assistants around the globe who have repeatedly promoted the industry as individuals and as groups are beginning to see an impact on their efforts. Virtual assistants have been talked about, written about, interviewed by, and seen in the likes of Entrepreneur, USA Today, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Reader’s Digest, CNN News, and more. “We’ve come a long way from the deer in the headlights, wrinkled forehead look once received when offering up ‘I’m a virtual assistant,’ after being asked our profession,” states Kelly Poelker, Director of Academy of Virtual Professionals and co-author of the Virtual Assistant – The Series books. “Each and every article and interview put us one step closer to educating as many people as we can on what a virtual assistant is, and how a business can benefit from our services.” It’s an exciting time to start a virtual assistant business, but there are still a number of people just discovering the profession as a result of the growing media coverage.”

To read the entire article go to http://wahm-announce.com/?p=53

I have been spending so much time on Facebook lately that it consumes me.

It’s either for myself or many of my clients. They send me new applications to put on their page or they have question regarding new applications.

One of the things I always do before placing a new application on my client’s page is to add it to mine first. That way I can see exactly how it works and looks on the page. I see quite a few pages that look like a dime store sale (for those of us who remember what a dime store is).

I have also spent quite a bit of time removing of a lot of applications just for that reason. I am in business and I want to present myself that way. I am not looking for new best friends or a date. I am networking, period.

I have a client who I monitor a website for. It’s the Huffinton Post. I recently came across an article written by Stacy Krajchir that I would like to share with you. You can read it here:
http://tinyurl.com/6k4ofd

I couldn’t agree more……

I recently purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. I may have made a huge mistake.

The reason you ask? Because I don’t know what the heck I am doing. It’s like taking a shot in the dark and hoping you will hit the right target.

I have a client who would like me to make minor changes to her website when needed. Nothing major, just minor date changes and such, but she has quite a few graphics on her website that have text typed into them.

Silly me, I thought I could just buy this software, and poof, I could just change the text. Well, I come to find out that isn’t so. You have to create layers and so on.

I went to the support and watched the tutorials and it doesn’t do what it says it should be doing.

I then Googled for free online tutorials and all I found were tutorials that you have to pay for and because I am frugal, I opted not to sign up for anything.

My next step was to put a post on Facebook and Twitter to beg for assistance and much to my surprise I did get quite a few suggestions and one offer for a free tutorial. His name is Mike Garcia and he walked me through a number of things. I am so grateful for his help. He did suggest that in the future I should purchase the full blown Adobe Photoshop. We’ll see.

In the meantime, I am going to practice and see what I can come up with.

Keep your fingers crossed.

This classy little music video, under 2 minutes in length, shows her playing the “Fox Hunter’s Jig” at many lovely vista points around Lake Tahoe, where she resides.

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As a VA I am constantly learning new things. Not always regarding software or anything really business related.

You see, I have a problem with communicating my concerns to clients when I don’t hear from them in a while. I naturally assume that my services, for whatever reason, are no longer needed.

This time though, instead of stewing over it, I sent an email to the client and asked. That is huge for me as I don’t like rejection. I would rather lay awake at night and try to figure out what I did wrong.

Well, as it turns out, it was all in my head. She immediately called me and explained that she had been on the road and had been very busy. She also stated that she loves the work that I do and will continue to do so. She had even sent me an email as we were speaking sending me more projects.

So, the gist of this blog posting is to say:

1. Keep the lines of communication open
2. Don’t be afraid to call your client and voice your concerns
3. When in doubt-ask!

If you are thinking of hiring a VA, go to this link and learn all about what a VA can do for you at http://tinyurl.com/26fbn8