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Taking Time Off as a VA? Here’s How to Do It Without Losing Clients (or Your Sanity!)
Taking time out from your VA business – either for a sneaky long weekend, or an extended vacation - shouldn’t feel like an impossible...
Ingrid Bayer
Feb 174 min read
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Chasing the Dream or Building Reality? The Truth About Sustainable VA Success
In today’s world, it’s easy to get caught up in flashy promises of “ making bank ” as a Virtual Assistant—$30k months, $150 hourly rates,...
Ingrid Bayer
Jan 142 min read
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Cultivating a Growth Mindset for VA Business Success
Feeling stuck in your Virtual Assistant business is definitely not uncommon, but often, the barrier to progress isn't external; it's in...
Ingrid Bayer
Jun 3, 20242 min read
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From Chaos to Calm: Balancing Work & Life for VA Success
In the bustling life of a Virtual Assistant, balancing business with family can often feel like navigating through chaos. The key to...
Ingrid Bayer
Apr 1, 20243 min read
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So, you want to start a VA business...
So, you want to start a VA business… but do you dare? Yeah, I know… like most of us, you get to the point where you’ve poked your nose...
Ingrid Bayer
Mar 20, 20242 min read
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Essential Risk Mitigation Strategies for Virtual Assistants
In the ever-evolving world of Virtual Assistance – just as in any business – being prepared for the unexpected is not just wise, it's...
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Mar 1, 20242 min read
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3 Signs You're Ready to Scale Your VA Business
With the growth in demand for VAs skyrocketing, it’s no surprise that our industry is booming. And what’s even more exciting is that...
Ingrid Bayer
Dec 16, 20223 min read
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What's your 2020 vision
I don’t know about you, but the Christmas and New Year break always seems to be the time I spend reviewing my business results, and...
Ingrid Bayer
Dec 20, 20193 min read
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Guest Blog: Events for introverts and the VA Summit.
When Ingrid told me she was going to put together a Summit, especially for VAs - with content we wanted to hear - I knew I had to be there.
Samantha Mitchell
Sep 30, 20193 min read
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My Personal Journey from EA to VA
I've been a VA since 2008, and it's a career I've loved from the word go. I thought I'd take a moment to share with you my personal...
Ingrid Bayer
Jul 12, 20192 min read
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Are you ready to turn your dreams into reality?
So Christmas is over and another year is just on the horizon… 2018 is about to be the ‘year that was’, and 2019 is the year where our...
Ingrid Bayer
Dec 26, 20183 min read
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Finding Work Life Balance from within the Matrix
As life gets busier and time seems to be inexplicably speeding up, more and more of us are wanting to achieve a true work-life balance....
Ingrid Bayer
Jun 14, 20182 min read
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Strategies for Getting Started in your own Virtual Assistant (VA) Business
So often I’m asked the question about how best to transition across to working as a Virtual Assistant. To be honest, there are many ways...
Ingrid Bayer
Feb 15, 20182 min read
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Why being a self-employed Virtual Assistant / Home Based Business Owner Rocks my World!
Our daughter recently gave birth to her second child (our second grandchild)… which is pretty amazing – especially since I don’t feel old...
Ingrid Bayer
Nov 8, 20172 min read
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Virtual Assistants – an idea whose time has definitely come!
As Bob Dylan famously sang in 1964, “…the times, they are a-changin’”. Indeed, this sentiment rings true even today in what is...
Ingrid Bayer
Oct 18, 20171 min read
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The Forgotten Secret to Success for Virtual Business Owners
I remember starting my own Virtual Assistant business like it was yesterday: the sense of excitement coupled with a feeling that I was...
Ingrid Bayer
Sep 15, 20173 min read
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How Cultivating a Business Mindset will Help you Achieve Business Success
In my experience, I believe strongly that the ability to develop a sound business mindset is profoundly critical to your business’s...
Ingrid Bayer
Aug 15, 20174 min read
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Are you Letting the Side Down?
How many times have you heard about, or had a conversation with a business owner who has made a comment like this: “The last VA we had...
Ingrid Bayer
Jul 14, 20172 min read
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Achieving Success in your VA Business... What's LUCK got to do with it?
As a home based business operator and Virtual Assistant since 2008, I know the ups and downs of running an often frenetic and fast-paced...
Ingrid Bayer
May 12, 20172 min read
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I am Woman... In Business!!!!
I was just a young girl when Helen Reddy’s iconic song “I am Woman” hit the world stage, but I certainly remember it… and it became an...
Ingrid Bayer
Mar 3, 20172 min read
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