Virtual Thoughts

When I was starting out, that is starting to look for online jobs, I thought that Data Entry would be the easiest thing to do. I mean, I don’t have much experience working online, I am not a technical gal, so what else is there available for a novice like me?

But to my surprise, data entry like VA comes in many forms too.

To an accountant, data entry would possibly be entering invoices and billings in Quickbooks. Now if you don’t know Quickbooks and if the accountant is too busy to train you, then just lost a potential job.

For real estate property management firms, data entry may be creating monthly spreadsheets for various expenses and for reports to the unit owners, or keeping track of tenants.

An individual entrepreneur may need somebody to do data entry like entering information into an excel spreadsheet. The thing is, before entering anything, you have to do a lot of researching and reading first in order to get the correct information to enter.

Companies may require you to call other companies to confirm the information in their file. Now if you are shy or your english may have a heavy regional accent, calling could be a problem, because the companies you are calling may become suspicious. Others require you to use Excel to keep track of expenditures or sales report.
Still other data entry jobs are to do with excel spreadsheets and numbers. If you are not an expert on Excel Spreadsheet, again, this could be a problem if you are asked to create one with automatic calculations.

So the next time you apply for a data entry job, ask first what kind of data entry is involve. It may be more complicated than what you know or you just may be lucky that it is something you are an expert with.