I was sent a video (created by OnlineMBA.com) which raises an interesting thing to consider when you’re thinking about outsourcing: Why outsourcing may in fact NOT be valuable to business. Check it out: Now, I won’t go so far as to agree that outsourcing is “bad for business”. After all I’m a virtual assistant and…Read more
Category: Staff
The Fraud Behind Living the Dream
Tim Ferriss – author of The 4-Hour Work Week – has never been the VA industry’s favourite person – especially when he advocated the exploitation of labour in developing countries for $5 per hour in order to get himself rich. As Meagan Day of Jacobin Magazine puts it: After dozens of pages of self-help and…Read more
How do you value employees?
I read an article by Shannon Aspinall of Shannon Aspinall Bookkeeping & Accounting. Even though I don’t employ people, I found it interesting because for me, some of the things Shannon said really reinforced what VAs have been saying for decades, and helped clarify the value a VA could bring to your business. In her…Read more