We are currently seeking a VA to fill a permanent role of 20 hours per week contacting Australian and New Zealand based residents whom have completed our phone survey. The survey includes questions about health and carpet cleaning frequency in the home.

Your brief includes utilising the information about the household provided in the survey results and turning the contact into a customer for carpet cleaning and sanitising.
The product you are offering is a hypoallergenic carpet cleaning service for residential customers which currently experiences a strong rate of uptake from present activities.

The times required to make these calls are between 5pm and 7.30pm week days and 9-5 on Saturdays Australian Eastern Standard Time. Call zones includes all states within Australia and New Zealand.

Performance incentives available, immediate start.

www.healthybreathingcentre.com.au

The successful candidate will need to have a good understanding of:
•Google Gmail
•Familiar with using a WordPress blog
•Adding links to a website
•Google Docs

Please include two three paragraphs as to why you are suited to this position.

To apply for this job you must be logged into the site. Job Applications close 22/02/2012.

Please include two three paragraphs as to why you would be suitable for this job. You must be logged into the VAA website to apply. This job closes on the 21st Feb 2011.

We are presently looking to fill a VA role for business development and account management via the primary activity of appointment setting.

We operate an established network across Australia providing a health based sanitisation process to commercial establishments.

Role includes:

5-20 hrs per week
Business to business communication

Competence in Excel and Word

Must have own phone systems

Rate is between $25-$35 p/hr

Immediate start and long term work for the right applicant.

Please submit your interest along with any relevant experience you have. Job closes 14 February 2012.

You’ll be required to do data entry, file management, customer invoicing, basic excel/word, email handling etc.

We’re looking to hire from Australia only at this time.

Thank you!

Please include two to three paragraphs as to why you are suitable.

Applications close 20/01/2012.

You must be logged in to the Virtual Assistant Website to apply.

A fixed fee for each blog written will be agreed up front with the successful VA/s and work is expected to be ongoing.

When applying could you please include an example of a blog previously written and what fee per blog you would be seeking.

This job closes on the 15/01/2012. You must be a member and logged into the Virtual Assistant website to apply.

The job pays $25 per hour.

Spreadsheets are managed via Microsoft Excel and are accessed via Google Apps. We will provide you with your own username and password to login to our Google Account.

Experience using Google is preferable as we don’t have time to train. You must be committed to completing the allocated tasks each week. We are looking for someone who is trustworthy and reliable. 

Please provide 2-3 paragraphs as to why you are the best candidate for the job.

This job closes on the 2/01/2012. You must be a member and logged into the Virtual Assistant website to apply.

In addition to registering with the Virtual Assistant Website/Directory it’s a good idea to create your own Website. If you want a Website but cant afford to pay for one then Google Sites is an easy way to create your own FREE Virtual Assistant Website with your own domain name (web address).

Anyone with a Google Account or Gmail Account can create a FREE Website for their Virtual Assistant Business – Signing up with Google is Free.  You can do so in the top right hand corner of the Google homepage. Once logged in to your Google Account – Go To – Sites – and follow the prompts.

Quick Facts about Free Google Sites for your VA Business:

Single-click page creation
Creating a new page for your Virtual Assistant Website just takes the click of a button.

No HTML required
Creating a website for your VA business is as easy as editing a document, which means there’s no markup language for you to learn — just get started.

Make it your own
Google’s customisation options let you create your VA Business website with your own look and feel. You can even have your own website address (custom URL).

Get started with templates
You can create different types of pages for your Virtual Assistant Website based on the google templates  –  page types include plain web pages, announcement pages, file cabinet pages, dashboard and list pages.

Upload files and attachments
Use the file cabinet page to upload files up to 10MB in size. Each Google account receives at least 10GB of storage in Google Sites.

Embed rich content
Google enables you to create a Virtual Assistant Website that is integrated with other Google products, so you can insert videos, docs, spreadsheets, presentations, photo slide shows, and calendars directly onto your new Virtual Assisant Google Website pages.

Work together and share
Google’s permission settings let you designate owners, viewers and collaborators (meaning they can edit pages) for your VA website.
And you can make your site available to just a few people, or your entire client list/collegues or the world.

Search with Google
Because your Virtual Assistant Website has been created through Google sites it will get indexed with google making it easy for you and others to search for pages and documents.  Mapping your site to your own URL – Adding your own URL (Domain Name) to your free Google Site

If you would like your Virtual Assistant Website to appear under a custom domain URL that you control, such as www.example.com.au (or any other URL), you can have your Website appear at that URL by going through a process known as mapping your site. Then, as people navigate your VA Website, they will remain on www.example.com.au unless they click an external link.

To do this change your CNAME record:

Depending on your domain registrar, you may need to make changes to your CNAME record in order for your site to be mapped:

Sign in to the site where you control your own site with custom URL.

Navigate to your Domain Name Server (DNS) management page. The location and name of this page varies by host, but can generally be found in the Domain Management or Advanced Settings section.

Find the CNAME settings and in the section ‘CNAME value or alias,’ enter the sub-domain you’d like to map the URL to. The sub-domain for www.example.com would be www.

Set the CNAME destination to the following address: ghs.google.com

Save your changes with your domain host.

For more information about creating a free Virtual Assisant Website using Google sites read this document:

http://support.google.com/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99448&topic=1046077&ctx=topic

For more help contact Virtual Assistant Australia.

Studies have shown that 70% of all working adults dream of owning their own business but only one in every seven actually do! Only two out of every five small business owners make it past the five year mark!

 If you want to continue working from home so you can enjoy the life work balance you have always dreamed of, you definately need to get great clients. 

The free resource below has been created for home based business owners and includes key strategies that Virtual Assistants can use to find quality clients!

It also outlines six marketing mistakes when promoting your VA Services (and how to avoid them!).

Click here to open the Virtual Assistant Marketing Resource – quality clients are just around the corner!

43 per cent of business leaders overwhelmingly said that technological advancements were top of the list. This was over and above other areas such as general company changes, people changes and wider economic/legislative changes

The main message from the study was that business leaders’ felt they would be left behind if they don’t address it.  Not only will technology be the biggest change that organisations go through, it was also ranked highly among respondents as to the main reason behind why change occurred in Australian businesses in the first place.

Virtual Assistants who can assist employers to use technologies that will help them gain better efficiencies will have a competitive advantage.

Virtual Assistants and Employers can keep abreast of technology changes here.

iTunes also has many free podcasts available to download that Employers and Virtual Assistants will find useful. The podcast below is one example.

ABC Digital Living Podcast – Digital Living is a weekly segment on Gadgets

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=260236298