Pictures as promised

As promised here are a few of pictures of the day, just sorry that I wasn't able to drop them in the posts at the time. My lack of organisation I'm sorry - I'll know better next time and make space on my camera phone!

Here's everyone concentrating hard on what Justine has to say.

My notes that I need to re read and digest....

Everyone networking....



There are a couple more on my flickr...

Its finished for the day...

Final thoughts for today are it’s been very wordy with no visuals. Good info but needs more interesting delivery I think. It’s not a very tech savvy training course, I know it’s aimed at the basics but it is an industry with virtual in the title! I guess you need to not put some people off. Saying that alot of tech has been raised in detail towards the end and people freaked out a bit!!!

Personable presentations, feel able to ask questions, friendly from Emma. Getting a bit bored though, its been a long day.

Don’t forget our hot niche area ladies! Monday will get the resources link, roll on Monday is what I say…..

Nice speedy pace to setting up though at the end. Thanks for that Justine.! Overall nice and enthusiastic and a definate please keep in touch message.

A quick few thoughts.....

It's very informative, don't get me wrong on this one, but it isn't very visual or exciting. I guess that's part of it being a basics course but it would be nice to have something to look at........

At the VA Workshop!!!!

Yes I am here at the VA Success Groups Start Your VA Business Workshop and blogging live, so apologies if there are any spelling mistakes in this one! Not spotted any obviously creative types but several other knackered new mums to bond with!

It's a bit typical in some ways in that it's an all female room, which is not necessarily a bad thing, and the reasons for being here are pretty much flexibility around family commitments or recent redundancy. Given the current worldwide financial climate I guess that's not really that surprising.

Its been very clearly laid out and imparted to us so far, key messages are Keep it Simple and it's normal to charge in advance! Yes pay up before we do the work or no deal! My main problem is I appear to be in a room full of Mac haters!!! Boohoo, but you know I'm a Mac devotee...

I'll be addressing my proposed domain name and rather alot of my marketing materials when I get home, length to avoid mistyping of your address etc is something in my current field of Creative Technology I should really have thought of on my own. Its good to be reminded of things like that 'coz when you're doing it for yourself it's easy to miss.

Photos and key points up hopefully tomorrow and further notes later on.....

More modifications!

I've done more modifications to this lovely page, pictures, more links, my twitter feed etc. I feel the need to become a bit more interesting now everyone can see it all in one place! Oh well, beauty in the little things.......

Website design is still ongoing though and more will be done after tomorrow's workshop, particularly on pricing and services available ;)

Blogging tutorial

Today I have received a very informative, useful and most importantly nice lesson in blogging and live blogging techniques by the wonderful Jess. I have now completely revamped my layout and look and still have more to do when I can fit the time in. Tags and my Facebook, Flickr and Twitter all need either improving or adding, all rather essential so someone will actually read this in the first place and then keep in touch!

Also I thought I'd show the small beginnings from where I hope and intend great things to grow! My desk, in the corner of my sitting room. Nothing grand and definitely not the home office I would like but it's a start. Don't think it would pass any kind of Health and Safety assessment for working on a computer.

Train booked for tomorrow to take me to the Setting up your VA Business Workshop in London, hoping for some peer networking but mostly some handy hints on how to earn some money doing this gig.

I'm going to be attending the VA Success Group's 'Start your own VA Business workshop' in London on Saturday 31st January, for more information on it. Should be helpful and it's not ridiculously expensive as some of the courses seem to be.

I'm going to blog live from the workshop if I can and wifi permitting, so hopefully someone will be reading this by then and get something useful out of it!!!!

My first ever blog post!

I've finally caught up with a lot of people that I know and have started my first ever blog! So Hello there in the ether.

I'm not entirely convinced anyone will want to read my ramblings as I go about setting myself up as a VA (Virtual Assistant) but it's worth a shot. It may garner some business or it may simply provide a cathartic outlet that no one ever sees as I get stressed about the little things that happen whilst setting myself up in business.

I'm still working on my VA website design so that's not live yet, which I'm disappointed about but these things happen when your strapped for time. I need to rewrite my 'Home' page too as it's somehow got deleted and I can't remember what I said - the joys of a short memory span - hopefully it will come back to me at some point. Probably when I'm in the bath or some other such place where I can't grab a computer and type it in before all those lovely words escape me again.