My name is Loretta Oliver and I’ve been a work at home mom offering virtual assistant services of some kind since 2001. I enjoy being there when my kids need me, not having to beg the boss to give me time off to see a band concert or a baseball game, and having the freedom to work when and where I choose. If that sounds like the kind of lifestyle you’d enjoy, then stick around and we’ll work on building your virtual assistant business together.

I shifted my business focus from being a general virtual assistant to focusing on offering transcription services and I no longer accept new general assistance clients. However, I do still maintain a few original client relationships and I really enjoy working with those people. When you’ve got great clients work doesn’t seem so much like work as it does helping a friend, and that’s the way it should be in my opinion.

One thing I learned quickly as a virtual assistant and transcriptionist is that you can’t let your entire business be YOU. Eventually you will reach a point where it won’t work anymore, something might call you away from your comfortable desk (like you husband being in the hospital for two weeks), or you might want to take an actual vacation where you don’t have to go back to the hotel and work for four hours every night, or maybe you’ve just got too much incoming work that you can’t handle it all alone anymore. The truth is even the assistant needs a little help sometimes, and that’s perfectly okay.

Kind Regards,