I haven’t written here for a while – Net Secretary has been bubbling along nicely and life has got in the way a bit, so I thought I should stop by and blog. I’ve been thinking lately about how trusting your instincts in business is so imperative, both in terms of business practices but also when it comes to new clients. I always ensure I have an Agreement in place with all my clients as a protection for both myself and for them. However, there are some prospective clients that I just won’t work with. Call it a gut feeling or intuition, I just know these clients are going to be bad payers, difficult and demanding to work with or that we are just not a “good fit”. Thankfully as an independent contractor, I can choose who I want to to work with and who I don’t and if a client relationship is not working out, I have the right to terminate that relationship as per the terms of our Agreement. This is why trusting my intuition is so important because that inner voice saves me from a lot of heartache and stress. This can be a little more tricky with long distance clients and as a Virtual Assistant, I need to ask lots of questions before I agree to work with a client. I think being a good fit with each other is extremely important for a satisfying, long term, successful working relationship.

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Hi everyone

I just had to repost this from an email Kathie Thomas sent to the Virtual Assistants Forum a couple of weeks ago. How many of these can you relate to hearing before?

• The Marathon Message: The extremely long voicemail that never ends.
• The Death March: Leaving a phone number at the end of a long voicemail. If you missed it, you then have to listen to the entire message again just to get the phone number.
• The Screaming Eagle: The voicemail left in a noisy bar or as a fire truck is passing by.
• The Drunken Dispatch: The drunk dial voicemail.
• Voicemail Interruptus: As the person is leaving the voicemail, they stop in the middle to have a conversation with someone else or answer another call before they return to finish the message.
• The Misguided Message: A person or telemarketer leaves a message for you that was actually intended for someone else.
• Voicemail Incognito: The anonymous voicemail.
• One Way Wonder: When the person thinks they are speaking to you when they are actually talking to your voicemail.
• The Pocket Dialer: The person that accidentally calls you because the phone is in their pocket or bag and isn’t locked, leading to an endless soundtrack of them walking down the street, driving or having a conversation with someone else.
• And, worst of all, the person who rattles off their telephone number at lightening speed, causing you to have to repeatedly go back over the entire message to try and decipher the digits.

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