Heather L. McMillan

About Heather L. McMillan

Hello!  I’m Heather McMillan, and I run the Virtual Assistant Resource. I have been a virtual assistant since before I ever heard of the term. In 1996, I posted a page on my Geocities website and called myself “The At Home Secretary”, which is still my business name today.  I started out doing typing projects, scanning/OCR projects, and basic HTML coding and website updates just to make extra money on the side.  Most of those services can now be found on my new VA site, I Can Type Fast.

I ran my VA business part-time until the end of 2005 when I made the leap to being a virtual assistant full-time. By 2006, I found myself so successful that I was turning prospects away. Can you imagine having so many people wanting to work with you that you actually have to turn the less appealing, less paying ones away? It can happen to you, just as it did for me.

I was constantly being emailed and asked by others how to start a virtual assistant business, so I decided to open Secretaries on Demand in the summer of 2007. At first, it was purely an informational site (and it still mostly is), with no products or services for sale. It was intended to help place VAs with businesses.

However, many of my followers started requesting consultations, mentoring, coaching, and copies of the digital forms, contracts, and documents I uses for my VA business and more and more of my free time which was getting to be less and less with the success of my business. It was then that I decided to give others he opportunity to have those things they asked for by putting these products and services on the site in late 2007.

In late 2008, the unthinkable happened.  My health took a turn for the worse, and I had to cut out many of the things I was doing with for aspiring VAs with Secretaries on Demand.  My health is now improving, and more than ever I have a great passion for assisting others in realizing their dream just as I did.

I love helping others like myself follow their dreams of getting out of the corporate pool. As virtual assistants, we can act proactively for our clients, and help them take their businesses to the next level. So in keeping with the new direction of my business, Secretaries on Demand became The Virtual Assistant Resource February 28, 2009.

I sincerely hope that The Virtual Assistant Resource can be the best resource for you during your journey as a virtual assistant whether you are just starting or seeking to expand and to grow your virtual assistant business.

Each one of you is important to me, because I once was where you are right now. So I understand you and what it means to start out, to struggle, and to have a shoe-string budget to work with and prove yourself as a valuable and viable contender in the virtual assistant world.