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Comment by Rita Cartwright on November 3, 2008 at 3:33pm

I was talking about this same topic with someone a couple of months ago. When I worked in the corporate world as a word processing operator, administrative assistant, and receptionist, it was much different than now. Part of business operations involves marketing. After you have done extensive marketing to get the clients and/or projects, it's time to be a virtual assistant.

Comment by Monique Terrell on October 31, 2008 at 6:18pm

The exactly right Sue. But if you can't hire someone else to do it for you right away then you must deal with the running of the business in order to feed your passion. And when it's time you can hand off those tasks that you don't enjoy hence the "Virtual Assistant" for the most part.

Which basically means we as Virtual Assistant Business Owners we need to practice what we preach.

Monique

Comment by Sue L Canfield on October 31, 2008 at 10:28am

That's an interesting perspective Monique. I do agree that we are all business owners. Too often virtual assistants don't really know how to run a business and get lost in that aspect of it. Perhaps they would be better off working on a team or having someone else run the business aspect of it.

However, if your passion is the task, focus on that! We must live our passions because what we are passionate about is what we are good at. If we aren't passionate about running the business, hire someone else to do that.

This is what my husband, a small business consultant, tells people. Do what you're good at and let someone else do the rest. It's the only sensible way to do business, retain your passion and succeed.