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: 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: 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!

Matthew 6:25 --- " Therefore I say to you , do not worry about your life."

As Christians, we have no need to worry. Yet it's one of those things we are all guilty of doing. We often become concerned over matters that should not trouble us. There are two things we should never to worry about. First, we must not be anxious about things we can't control. Turning them over to the Lord in prayer, we should leave them in His hands. Second, we should never worry about things we can control. We are to stop our worrying and start doing something about them.

There's a missionary gave this excellent advice: " Let us give up our words, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into God's hand; and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about."

We should avoid worry, not because of the distress it brings to us but above all because it displeases the Lord. for the child of God, to worry is to doubt the heavenly Father --- and that's an insult to Him. He merits our confidence.

Placing our trust firmly in God and His promises will help us avoid the folly of worry.

The Bible gives a remedy.
By which we can be worry-free:
It's simply this: Trust God and pray,
Then watch the worries fade away.

"When we worry, we believe more in our problems than in God's promises."

God bless everyone

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!..

To become a good virtual assistants we need to have this what we called the virtual assistant tool. The virtual assistant tool is a web-based that allows the virtual assistant to be more productive, enable to save data in a safe place and able to collaborate with the clients. Here are some of the lists of the most favorite tools of the virtual assistants. Most of this is either free or at least have this free trial account.

1. Google Docs- It is one of the great way enable to the virtual assistants to have a web based documents that able to store and you will able to share it with your clients.

2. Google Reader-Most of this don’t know this , but you will able to used the Google reader to subscribe to web searches and with that tool, you can aggregate industry information and quickly become and expert on what you need to.

3. Zoho CRM- The Free CRM that is very good. A CRM is a tool that helps you close sales by tracking everything through the sales funnel.

4. Survey Monkey- You should be using this or a similar tool to get feedbackfrom clients periodically.

5. BaseCamp-- Simple, interactive project management system that really focuses on collaboration. Collaboration with clients is the key to providing more value.

6. Wordpress- Yes you have to pay a few dollars to host it someplace, but the Wordpress developers are not getting that money. That is the best free software I have ever seen.

7. DocStoc.com- Officially, you should always hire a legal professional. The reality is some of use go out and find a document we can modify ourselves. You can save on legal fees just by having one done first and asking a lawyer to review it after.

8. High Rise- There is a free version of this software. It is excellent for sharing contacts. If you are doing online advocacy, this tool is a must for you to work with your client.

Web- Based tools is very important to become a successful virtual assistant. Have you heard about this new online tool for the control freaks, those who love to organize, say professional organizers and virtual assistants?

Matthew 14:23 -- " And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up on a mountain by Himself to pray. Now when evening came, He was alone there."

There is something to be said for quiet time. We live in a time where we are constantly on the move. There is always something or someone demanding our time and talents. There is this feeling of urgency eating away at the time we've set aside to rest. Between our work and schedules, outside activities, church and heaven forbid, should we forget television time, there just is not enough hours in a day.

After a while, we find ourselves less focused and the quality of the activity we perform slips. This is just another way Satan pulls us into his snare. He so self-involves us that we lose track of things. Our body tires, our mind muddles, and illness sets in. I know, I've been there. Wether we fill our time with outside activities or church related activities, there is a limit to what we can physically do. Once our bodies reach that limit, we go into shut-down.

Even if our activities are good ones - ones that involve the church, the reality of the matter is, we are only human, and we can each only do so much before we wear out. Finding a quiet time to study the Word, even if its only five minutes at a time, refreshes our hearts. It keeps us in touch with the Father.

More so, seeking those constant moments of silence so that we are able to focus GOD-ears on what the Lord is saying. He whispers to us for a reason. He wants us to listen "intently" for His guidance. Find That quiet time and earmark it daily so that good quality time is spent in a good relationship with the Lord. Remember shhhhh. Just be quite for a moment - rest, meditate, and pray. You will be amazed at how it revives the soul.

GOD bless everyone.

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.

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Virtual Assistant or a “VA” specializes in providing the ongoing administrative support by working with clients in continuous and collaborative relationship. Virtual assistant operate remotely from their own offices and utilized today’s technology to deliver to their clients. The virtual assistants also offer additional and separate specialties that fall under the creative and technical services.

As virtual assistant we always perform different task for our clients. We do everything to help our clients to provide great customer service . We consider our clients business as ours.

Here are the 5 Tips To Become A virtual Assistant

Target A Market if you have plan to become a virtual assistant we should first to look a target in this market. We should think that everyone will be our target. We should first look for a much smaller target because this will help us to create a much better marketing. With the skills that we have known we can get a better marketing, we can also get clients faster, and we will succeed this kind of business.

Have A Professional Website having a professional website is very important. Client will see the services that you are offering, and it will serve as your professional image. We should only make sure that the website should have a professional look that will create impression to your target clients.

Explaining What To Do we cannot deny the fact that not everyone know what a virtual assistant really is. We should only explain what it is and what are the services that you are providing as a virtual assistants.

Make Your Website Get Traffic we should make a traffic in our website so that we will be known online. One way to get more traffic will be in the article submission. All you have to do is to promote your expertise and your virtual assistant business. When you already submit article there would be a resource box that will help you be known in the online marketing.

Make A Blog Blogs are great marketing tools. Plus this is also a way for you to showcase your writing skills. My first task in this business is blogging our clients. A business blog is another tool that makes attraction to your prospect clients.

Try to use these 5 tips to your virtual assistance journey. Internet is the best place in promoting your business and in finding clients. Always use techniques in promoting your virtual assistant business.

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