There are a number of important factors to think about when you’re running a virtual assistant business. You’ll have all of the basics of running a business to get straight – things like paying taxes, marketing, keeping track of your expenses. You’ll have to do some thinking too about yourself, your business and where you want that business to go. And then you’re going to need to find some help.

By taking advantage of resources that are available to you, you’ll be sure that you’re staying on top of current information and continually developing your skills as a VA.

You’ll also want to be sure that you recognize the value of networking for your VA business.

You can do some networking with VirtualU. But more importantly, you’ll want to:

1. Keep track of the specific work that you want to do – so that you can network with those who are like-minded and those who have other specialties.
2. Do some thinking about the area you’re specializing in. By focusing your efforts, you’ll be able to find the forums, blogs and even magazines that the top pros who you want to work with are taking advantage of. Then you’ll be able to spend time there as well.

The more that you focus your opportunities and advertising, the better luck you’ll have finding clients – and other VAs who can fill in any gaps in your experience.