WANTED: well organised, computer savvy home-workers to help busy professionals and entrepreneurs get more done. Work where you want, when you want and set your own salary as a successful Virtual Assistant. If you have excellent organisational skills, want the freedom to work from home and are passionate about doing a great job then a career as a Virtual Assistant could be for you! Professional VA, Nadine Hill, shares all her tricks-of-the-trade to help budding and working VAs to become more in-demand with the right clients and more in-control of their success. Inside you will learn: * Tricks for being in-demand even if you know nothing about marketing * How to find your niche to stand out from the competition * Hard-won time-management tactics for staying sane and productive * A simple technique for setting your fees to be profitable and competitive * Where to go for further information including business development, networking and financial advice * The 9 most common mistakes new VAs make and how to avoid them * 6 candid case studies with top tips from successful working VAs * How to raise your fees without losing clients by demonstrating value not cost * How to find and do work that you love without compromising your values * Systems and secrets for running a successful business and having a life

"Take control of your entrepreneurial life and learn how to effectively outsource your non-essential tasks. You'll free up hours every day to focus on what's really important. In the end virtual assistants can help you lead a happier, healthier, and more productive and stress-free life."--Page 4 of cover

Do you dream of running your own successful virtual assistant business? Do you want a better work-life balance? Do you want to be your own boss? Do you want to be in control of your health, time, and be there for loved ones? If you’re looking for a book that can give you the tools and the courage you need to change your life… you’ve found it! How to be a Virtual Assistant is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to start and run their own successful business as a VA. This book will guide you through everything you need to be a successful virtual assistant.With an abundance of insider tips on what to do - and more importantly, what not to do - she has included the kind of detail that can make or break a new business, including: •How to find clients •Building your reputation •What to charge •How to network •Working with associates •What to do when you lose a client •How to find your niche Catherine Gladwyn, founder of Delegate VA – Virtual Assistant, went from PA to thriving business owner - and you can follow in her footsteps. Gain insights into every step of the process and practical advice on subjects from finding your niche to finding clients, what services to offer and what to charge, to how to prepare for losing clients and avoid running out of money. ‘Written with honesty, directness and a large pinch of Catherine’s trademark humour, How to be a Virtual Assistant will not only give you vital techniques for building your business but the self-belief you need to step out of your comfort zone and do it! ’Catherine is passionate about cheerleading people who are unappreciated and unsatisfied in their jobs to create a happier, healthier lifestyle for themselves. As she says: “I’ve looked high and low for the definition of work where it says ‘unbearable, depressing, thankless, soul-destroying’, but it doesn’t because it’s not supposed to be!” Voted Most Popular Book for VAs in the Virtual Assistant Voice Awards (2020 and 2019) Amazon bestseller in the Home Based Business category (2020, 2019 and 2018) Amazon bestseller in the Small Business & Entrepreneurship category (2020 and 2019) Listed one of ten best business books in The Independent (2018) Finalist in Wiltshire Business Awards (2017) Nomination for Business Mum of the Year (2018)

Why are you doing EVERYTHING yourself? What would you do if you had even one more hour a day devoted solely to growing your business and making more money? Virtual assistants will make your life easier by taking the stress out of your business life. As a small business owner, you need more time so you can make more money and stay competitive in an ever-changing world. If you're spending less than 70 percent of your time on work that doesn't generate revenue, isn't building relationships, or isn't creating new products, then you're not spending enough time on your business. It means you're spending too much time in your business. This book will show you why Virtual Assistance (VA) is the answer. Hire the Right Virtual Assistant is the complete guide to: Know what a VA is and how they differ from Executive Assistants Understand the benefits and need of a VA - it's more than just outsourcing Hiring the right VA the first time in less time than you think Finally be able to use the VA right away to make the biggest impact in your business and free up your time If you had time right now to work on your business instead of in it, what could you do? Could you make a sale? Visit a client and earn more business? Make another 20 calls a day to land more clients? Work the pipeline? Network? Think about your proven method to gain more clients. Using that method, how many more clients could you have if you had more time? This is where you put a VA to work for you. They work in your business so you can work on your business. I promise that hiring a VA will be the best decision you make for your business. You will get back your time. Scroll up and pick up your copy today!"

Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using speech-to-text engines, text-to-speech engines, and conversation modules. This book shows you how to program the virtual assistant to gather data from the internet (weather data, data from Wikipedia, data mining); play music; and take notes. Each chapter covers building a mini project/module to make the virtual assistant better. You'll develop the software on Linux or OS X before transferring it to your Raspberry Pi, ready for deploying in your own home-automation or Internet of Things applications. Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi walks you through various STTs and TTSs and the implementation of these components with the help of Python. After that you will start implementing logic for handling user queries and commands, so that the user can have conversations with Melissa. You will then work to improve logic handling to detect what the user wants Melissa to do. You will also work on building some useful applications/modules for Melissa, which will allow you to gain interesting information from Melissa such as the time, weather information, and data from Wikipedia. You will develop a music playing application as well as a note taking application for Melissa, laying the foundations for how Melissa can be further extended. Finally, you will learn how to deploy this software to your Raspberry Pi and how you can further scale Melissa to make her more intelligent, interactive and how you can use her in other projects such as home automation as well. What You'll Learn Design the workflow and discover the concepts of building a voice controlled assistant Develop modules for having conversations with the assistant Enable the assistant to retrieve information from the internet Build utilities like a music player and a note taking application for the virtual assistant Integrate this software with a Raspberry Pi Who This Book Is For Anyone who has built a home automation project with Raspberry Pi and now want to enhance it by making it voice-controlled. The book would also interest students from computer science or related disciplines.

Learn what the "Have It All" lifestyle is REALLY all about In The Free Mama, Lauren Golden, founder of The Free Mama Movement, teaches women how to have a life many have only dreamed about: one where they can make good money AND be there for their families -- without sacrificing one for the other and without guilt. Learn what balance REALLY is and how to work from home with little ones while still honoring your grown-up self and her dreams and goals. Life is not filled with either-or choices, but rather, is full of this AND that. Learn how to become a quitter, and why that can be the best thing you've ever done for yourself and for your family. You'll learn to have more by doing less. Find out why working moms rock, and why self-employment is the absolute best way for mamas to pursue their passion. Learn how the skills you already have are in great demand, and how to turn them into a successful business that produces a steady, predictable source of income. Lauren, a master at focus and time management, shows you how to set up systems and use the time you have in the best possible way. She shares her "Daily 5" approach to rocking each day's tasks and teaches you how to set boundaries in your work and personal lives so that each gets your full attention. If you've had this nagging feeling that you were meant for more, this book will show you how right you are, and how within reach it is.