Savvy Subcontracting

Meet Subcontractor, Catherine Reay

Name Catherine Reay Business Name Reay Solutions Website http://www.eaysolutions.com Twitter http://twitter.com/reaysolutions Facebook http://companies.to/reaysolutions LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/reaysolutions 1. Have you started subcontracting? I am currently subcontracting for a fellow Virtual Assistant 2. What are your expertise and favorite services you will be offering? My niche market is Human Resources, Project Management, Social Media and Administrative. I enjoy [...]

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Meet Subcontractor, Julie Fuqua

Name: Julie Fuqua Business Name: Lioness Virtual Assistance Website: www.valioness.com Twitter @valioness Facebook: http://bit.ly/bfOTPF LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliefuqua 1. Have you started subcontracting? Yes, I currently work on three teams of varying sizes. 2. What are your expertise and favorite services you will be offering? Web site maintenance, 1SC set up and maintenance, custom graphics, internet research [...]

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Meet Subcontractor, Sandra Sims

Name Sandra Sims Business Name Lighthouse Virtual Solutions Website www.lighthousevirtual.com Twitter lvsolutions Facebook sandra.sims2 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/sandrasimsva 1. Have you started subcontracting? Yes have been 2006 when I started my business. 2. What are your expertise and favorite services you will be offering? My expertise is Real Estate have been in that field for over 20 [...]

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Meet Subcontractor, Janice St. Germain

Subcontractor: Janice (Jan) St. Germain Business Name: Germane Virtual Website: www.germanevirtual.comBlog: www.germanevirtual.com Twitter: @GermaneVirtual Facebook: N/A LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/germanevirtual 1. Have you started subcontracting? No, but after being ‘out of the picture’ for a couple of years, I’m ready to get back in the swing. I thought subbing would be a good start. 2. What are [...]

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Introducing Weekly Subcontract Interviews

It’s taken a few months but the subcontractor interviews are available here on the site. As I promised it’s a goal to connect multi-VA firms with available subcontractors. That’s why the interviews will share a little bit about them and their goals. Feel free to connect with the subcontractors. All I ask is that you [...]

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Meet Subcontractor, Katherine Ortiz

Subcontractor: Katherine Ortiz Business Name: Katzz The VA Website: www.katzztheva.me Twitter: katzz75 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Eureka-CA/Katzz-The-VA/141238022572054 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/katherineortiz75 Each subcontractor has taken the time to answer the following questions. 1. Have you started subcontracting? a. No not yet, I have had a few friends give me some stuff to do to gain experience but they were not [...]

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Learn From The Experienced

Not sure about the rest of you but I learn the most from those with experience.  That’s one of the biggest reasons I chose to subcontract for virtual service providers.  There’s not necessarily any traits I look for when chosing a contract project however if I learn they have years of experience I have a [...]

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Eat Pray Love

Over the weekend I’ve been seeing the previews for the recent movie, Eat, Pray Love with Julia Roberts.  That’s when it dawned on me finding yourself in a business is similar to finding yourself in life.  The more I think about it the more I realize I have an appetite to persue a virtual career.   The [...]

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Keep The Tasks You Like Most

Tina Forsythe is someone who I look up to alot.  She was the one that really got me into the subcontracting niche.  In this video she shares what you should delegate and what to keep doing yourself as a business owner. 

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Give Your Team Time Tools

We are often required to multi-task a great deal during the course of our workday—going to meetings, answering questions from others, handling “fire-drills,” doing paperwork. If we’re not careful, the interruptions and “small tasks” can rob us of critical time blocks where we get to concentrate on our main work, get problems solved, and come [...]

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