According to Wikipedia, a Virtual Assistant, typically abbreviated to VA, is an entrepreneur who provides professional administrative, technical or creative assistance to clients from a home office. They usually work for other small business, brokers and consultancy groups. It is estimated that there are as few as 5, 000-8, 000 or as many as 35, 000 Virtual Assistants worldwide; the profession is growing in centralized economies with “fly-in, fly-out” staffing practices.

Here are the Top 3 Virtual Assistant Associations
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1. IVVA - the International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA), with over 1,000 members, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional education and development of members of the Virtual Assistance profession, and to educating the public on the role and function of the Virtual Assistant. While certification is by no means requisite for IVAA members, IVAA holds the distinction of being the only organization offering the comprehensive IVAA Certified Virtual Assistant (CVA) exam, recognized internationally as the standard that Virtual Assistants strive to attain. Information is provided to the public so that a qualified virtual assistant can be found for your project.

2. Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce - the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is the premier Virtual Assistant association with a body of Virtual Assistant business knowledge and know-how that is second to none! Their passion is helping Virtual Assistants run smarter, more successful businesses that bring them more money and greater personal happiness, freedom and client satisfaction.


3. VA networking - our company epVirtual Assistants is one of the proud members of VA networking. VAnetworking’s Mission as the leading Virtual assistant networking association online is to maintain a quality community that helps earn both wealth and respect while maintaining the lifestyle they desire. They currently have 11489 registered members at VANA.

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: 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

Philippians 2:5 -- "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus".

How would you define "the Christmas spirit"? Would it be a friendly smile between strangers, the sound of familiar carols, a tree with twinkling lights in sea of brightly wrapped packages, or just that good feeling you get this time of the year?

None of these elements capture the real meaning of the phrase. They represent feeling that maybe a response to the commercialism that distorts the real spirit of Christmas.

For me, CHRISTmas is a very joyous excitement if we only focused our attention on the event we celebrate, rather than on the celebration of the event. It is JESUS birth we are honoring and celebrating, and that always makes for a good Christmas. So, let celebrate Christmas not only on the month of December but let's celebrate it everyday. And let the Spirit of Christmas always be seen in all our living.

In Philippians 2, Paul described the God of heaven and earth as laying aside His divine glory and becoming our servant by dying on the cross for our sins.Then he urged us to duplicate that same mind of humble service . That's the true Christmas Spirit.

Have a blessed Christmas everyone!..

Christmas is fast approaching. epVirtual Assistants will be on Holiday on the following dates:

December 21st - Christmas Party
December 24th - Christmas Eve
December 25th - Christmas Day
December 31st - New Year's Eve
January 1 - New Year

If you have special requests or projects for the holiday season, please send them all ahead of time so we can schedule or finish it before the holidays.

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epVirtual Assistants team would also like to greet
Kristelle del Rosario
a very happy birthday!

Psalm 95:6 "Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker."

If God is truly our God, as we proclaim, then worship should be a vital part of our lives. As His people and His children, we should always be ready to bow before Him and exalt His name. And one of the best places to do this is in His house with His people.

If we are not actively involved in fellowship and worship at church, our spiritual life tends to die. We grow cold. One week without going in church to praise and worship God feels us weak, if truly we are Christians in heart and in mind.

"Skipping church could be the beginning of spiritual decline."

I am blessed with my 3 years old son, he's always with me every time i go to church to attend worship and other church activities, he's also participating.

GOD bless everyone.

Its the first day of December. You can now feel the breeze of Christmas.

Here's a recap of what happened in November:

* We've moved to a new office! Bigger space and better location.

* New Web Design at our epVirtual Assistants website .


* Congratulations to Melrose Fulgencio for being November's VA of the month! We are proud of you Melrose! Keep up the good work.

What's Coming This December?



"AN HOUR FOR FRANK"
epVirtual Assistants launches our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Event this December and we are encouraging our clients to partcipate.

Last June 21st, Aklan was hit by a strong Typhoon Frank, leaving hundreds of people homeless. This Christmas our team is donating one hour of our paycheck to 7 families who were victims of the typhoon.

We are encouraging our clients to participate as well. You can buy additional one hour worth of services and we will work for you. Proceeds will be used to buy grocery items for the 7 families. Gift giving will be done of New Year's Eve - December 31st, 2008. Watch out for the pics!


CHRISTMAS LUAU PARTY

epVirtual Assistants will party all-night this coming December 2oth together with Gamma Brotherhood - an non-government organization in New Washington Aklan.

Wear your best hawaiian costumes and be ready to party all night long!

We know all this verse. It tells the One who loved us with an everlasting love. He suffered and died just for us.

This verse found in the book of John 3:16.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believed in Him should not perish but have everlasting life".

Hello Guys,

Welcome to epVirtual Assistants blog. This is where we will talk about different topics, news about our team, our services, the tools we use, VA resources and a whole lot more! Get to know our team and VA's individually as they share their stories.

We will also be featuring one client every week and get to know them personally. Feel free to comment and ask us about anything under the sun!