A designer friend recently told me that she was stiffed on a design job and how it really rocked her core trust in online business owners. This isn’t enough to make her jump back into the corporate world but she really took this slight personally.
I shared my own story here yesterday about not being paid [...]

I have a tendency to spoil my clients. I’m such a people pleaser that I bend over backwards making them happy and making their outsourcing experience as easy as possible. Sometimes that means I don’t look out for MY best interest, which can be detrimental.

Last summer I was doing some writing work for a client [...]

Yesterday I introduced you to Jan B. King, an author consultant who created a training program for VAs to become Virtual Author’s Assistants. This is a very high-demand niche simply because the number of authors increases drastically every year. You can read Part One here if you missed it.
Here is Part Two of my interview [...]

If you work from home as a freelancer or virtual assistant, no doubt it’s been pounded into your head that you need to have a niche, or a target market. You need to define a group of people (NOT the population at large!) for whom you want to work or who need your specialized skills.
Recently [...]

Last weekend, two days after school let out, my youngest went camping with some older Girl Scouts from her school. My friend is the leader and wanted to teach the girls some basic camping skills and since my daughter is Miss Social Butterfly, she wouldn’t dare miss this opportunity.
While listening to her tales about her [...]

Today is the first day of summer break for us and at nearly 7am both kids are still sound asleep (miraculous for our house!). We don’t have a single thing scheduled on the calendar today and what a joy it is not having to get out the door to catch the 7:10 am middle school [...]

We are pleased to welcome a new Freelance Parent to the blog this week.  Christina Lemmey has been freelancing as a home based Virtual Assistant for a couple of years now and will bring us a look into life as a internet based VA.
I’ve often been asked, “How did you decide to start your own [...]