This is the final part of the interview with Kathie M. Thomas, Founder of A Clayton’s Secretary, Author of “How To Become A Virtual Assistant”, and a leader in the industry.
What range of tasks does a virtual assistant perform?
“Lots of things. It took me about 3 years to work out what I really
enjoy and then I had to pass on the clients whose work I didn't enjoy. A bit hard as they had confidence in me and didn't want to get used to someone else! Not really had any strange requests, at least anything 'different' or 'new' just provided a new opportunity to develop new services. For example a client asked me to explore how blogs work over 2 years ago and so I set one up for her and one for myself to test how it worked. I'm an avid blogger now - in the Top 100 list in Australia but my client STILL does not understand what it's about and gets me to handle her blog for her – using articles she's pre-written. I really enjoy web-based stuff these days, i.e. web design (and I do hosting too and domain registrations), blogging – with a passion! Database management, ezines and newsletters, and stuff like that. I used to do bookkeeping, transcriptions, training on use of computer but eventually passed that work on. I do loooooove mentoring and coaching new VAs and helping them get established - I have much to share and teach others.”
For more information check out Kathie’s blog http://www.vadirectory.net/blog/ for more information about Kathie M. Thomas and the virtual assistant industry.