Hi...Hello... before i start this thing, May i have the honor to introduce my self... Im Timothy James Rosales Villanueva Tj for short and AKA "PulangDemonyo" on plurk. Have you ever heard of plurk, "plurkplurk tayo" or may be " Karma Up Baby! "?. This three are just a sample tagline if you experience the plurkycraze of plurklandia. Plurk is just like twitter you need to be popular to be followed by other users, but what's the most exciting thing on plurk? its just not only the users who will follow you but the "karma" thing.... The more karma you have the more option will be added on your page like more icons...the smiley things...and a lot more.... so if you want to sign-up i'll give you the link its www.plurk.com, its for free Baby....

By Geove Racia 

Working with  a person you actually do not meet in person, no face to face conversation is stiff. It requires a lot of communication for you to understand the work he/she want you to do. But the most difficult on this situation is that when you have communication barrier and you perceive your task opposite on what the clients want you to understand.

I have experience working with different clients with different culture with also different personality and I myself

 could prove that it is hard to deal with people with other culture but the bottom line is, it still depend on the person's personality but whatever they behave and act on work the most important thing is that you finished your work and make the client satisfied with the job.

One of our longest client handled is a Filipino client, Jomar Hilario. He is involved in internet marketing and makes money on it, train individuals and share his knowledge regarding how to make money on the internet. He is also a God fearing person. He is involved with religious events and advertise it through the internet to also inform others to have a moment with God and to have fellowship to our brothers and sisters in Christ. With a vast knowledge on the internet and skills on this industry, he is a successful internet marketer and had establish many seminars which he shared his secrets and techniques on how to make it on this industry.

My experience with him as a VA is worth keeping. He has imparted his knowledge to us with social networking, online promotion and a whole lot more. Despite my being inexperienced, he never hesitated to teach me and also adviced me that these things are essential to the industry that I have

 chosen and that I should know this and be familiar of this. I really admire him for such generosity of teaching me things and also helping me to develop my knowledge about these things.

He has helped me improve my powerpoint presentation skills as well.  I did learn to make a powerpoint presentation with his supervision. He guides me on correcting my mistakes and gives advices after that. He definitely appreciates whenever I did the job correctly. He is patient with me regarding my task if something went wrong with the work he just tell me what is suppose to be done on a particular task. Many times I got his instruction wrong and I also accepted that I am in fault but he still trust me to do the task. NOW I know these things already - and I'm confident that Im good with it all because of him. 

As his Virtual Assistant I have learned a lot from him, he is patient whenever there are task i don't understand that he want me to do. He also taught me things that were really essential to the industry I have chosen. I really thank you Sir Jomar Hilario I am really grateful to have work with you.

Geovelyn Racia is one of the pioneer Virtual Assistants of epVirtual Assistants. Her skills includes: Online Marketing, Link Building, Blogging, Blog Promotion. Want to hire Geove as your Virtual Assistant, click here.

by: Lorraine Kim


My first day was the toughest day of all,for many negative reasons like I always think for worthless and never for the good one,but as the day goes on I found out that I am enjoying in this job,and I love the people in this group.There are times that I don't know what to do with the article that I am working on but there's a good office mates that will lend their help to you and never snub you,and I am so thankful for that.
It is a big opportunity that I am given a chance to work as a VA ,and to handle this kind of job.For me it is a big step for a good tomorrow,the experience that I will absorb or get in this field will help more to my future career.

By: Ilyn Reyes

My experience as an epVirtual Assistant; well, eversince I started as a Virtual Assistant, I found this job so stressful and very challenging. epVirtual Assistants experience or do a lot of struggles like understanding the instructions very well from the clients and making our tasks surely done and above all I'm a night shift so I sleep late or I don't sleep of course with my team - The Graveyarder's Team.

We can do it Graveyarder's Team...

I have learned a lot from this job like expanding my computer skills, do different kind of tasks from different sites, also I'm familiarize with all the in's and out's in this job and of course different people i've meet..Also, I found out that I should have patience,.but frankly speaking i don't practice to be more patient. But i tried...


I'm proud that I'm the 1st VA of epVirtual Assistants.

Ilyn Reyes is the first Virtual Assistant employed at epVirtual Assistants. She is now the Team Lead for the Graveyarders Team. Her specialties include internet research, craigslist posting, social bookmarking and link building

By: TJ Villanueva

As a first timer on this field I thought its just an easy thing and will not make my brain explode...My first week I have to adjust, my schedule 4am to 12nn and I had a hard time to wake up as early as 4am (sleepAdik) and that time I have other responsibilities to work out, I'm a Cashier/Manager at a videoke bar owned by my buddy, and right after my duty which ends at 12 noon, I have 4 hours to sleep at 5pm will go to videoke bar until 1am or 2am Hmmm...very hard to do 2 jobs 24 hours a day, well financially speaking, its good but my body and brain can't take it anymore so I have to give-up my cashier job and give enough time to concentrate being a virtual assistant.

And as time goes by the task are getting harder and harder, but i like to do things in the first time i just tell my self that it will be a new things to learn that will add to my skills. as for now well i have to be prepare anytime, cause every day is a new day for us VA's

By: Kristelle del Rosario

Trusted by millons, Basecamp is a web based project management tool developed by 37Signals. Since 2004, Basecamp is the worlds most respected brands, entrepreneur, non profits and small businesses depend on it to make their projects smoothly. It is dependable, secure and safe.

Yes, it is at the top! Use basecamp if you are searching for an online project management tool that is very easy to learn, record time, allows you to store files, and can be used to communicate with your clients.

Interface

The interface of Basecamp is very simple and clean, even when you have dozens of projects, each with information, files, updates and etc.

Time Tracking and Recording

Basecamp allows you to record the time. You can track time for everything and anything, Basecamp's open nature allows you to easily do this. Evrything is recorded. You can add later if you forget to add time, or change down the road because it is editable.

Collaboration

You can give your client an account and allow them to access to any number of projects. Incridebly easy interface for clients and development team! Send message through the simple messaging interface and everything is recorded. The addition of reply via email was a more recent that kicked up the collaboration factor. It eliminates need for client to login when using the system.
Plus, for any private message, you can make sure that you and your team can see the message.
Yuo can also attached a file!

To do's and Tasks

Assigning tasks to people in your organization or company is one of the most important parts of any project management system. Basecamp do well at this in the simplest possible way. You can create to do list, track time per list and specific task, and your team can exchange information back to you via comments on each task.

"Basecamp brings people together".

Welcome to the new and updated epvirtual Assistant's blog. We have updated our blog site and promise to update this on a regular basis.

We have been silent for quite sometime already and neglected to update the site due to our very hectic work schedules. So here's the latest news and updates from epVirtual Assistants:

New Team Members:
Last March 2009 we have hired new trainees to join the fastest growing Virtual Assistance company in Aklan. They have gone through 1 whole month of rigid training and all have passed their final examination:

Lets all welcome:
Timothy James Villanueva
Ruby Ann Romano
JP Franco
Christopher Yu






New Office Furnitures:

As a sign of how fast our home-based business is growing, we have recently updated all our office furniture. We said goodbye to all our kitchen tables, and torn computer tables and said hello to cool blue office desks and Ms. Elle's hot pink office table!

Lenten Season:
The week of April 6-12 is the Holy Week in the Philippines. Philippine Government declared the following dates as holidays:
April 6 - Holy Monday
April 9 and 10 - Holy Thursday and Holy Friday

epVirtual Assistants will be on a Friday, April 10 to observe the Holy week. Regular working schedule will be observed on Saturday April 11.

Summer Time is here once again and watch out for our company outing this May!

By: Imee P.Fulgencio

The word virtual assistant (va) is new to me when I'm not yet involved here in this work. I got a lot of ? marks in my head but it all vanished as I started as a trainee to be virtual assistant.

It gives a lot of learning experiences to me through trainings, team activities and attend some online workshops. As time pass by, I found myself pretty enough creating and exploring new things.

Being a virtual assistants is not an easy job. Why? I have gone through all these stuff. First, adjustment from my co teams (new acquaintances) 2nd, my time schedule (shifting), 3rd, I must be computer addict/savvy (whew, really i am?) 4th, how to cope up pressure for deadline tasks of our clients, and the last I must be open for all the newbies or flexible enough, ready to face new challenges, willing to learn and be consistent.

For now, I am glad and proud being a Virtual Assistant. Not because I am earning but, because I am enjoying my work. I love helping and be of service to busy people that can't organized even their personal emails. I meet new friends (worldwide) through online, updated with all the news and love to communicate by means of chat, plurk, facebook, etc.

To all VA's, I would like to say I am happy to be one!