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Stand Out by Being YOU!

When you are a service professional, you are selling your services, but really you are selling a lot more than that …you are selling yourself. Understanding your own value as a professional is one of the most challenging things that a small business owner has to do. In fact, a lot of small business owners I know don’t even realize that they have to sell themselves. There is a huge misconception among VAs particularly, that their services or skills are the thing that will sell them to a potential client. While it is your service offerings that clients need, they will most often decide to work with you, simply because you are YOU. And being YOU means being unique …… Read More »Stand Out by Being YOU!

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The Truth About What High Paying VA Clients Want

Guest Post by Tiffany Johnson There is a HUGE weight that implementer’s carry around billing our clients.  Specifically if we know our clients business isn’t making any money.  There is no worse feeling then having to have the declined credit card conversation with a client that we know is working hard but simply not making the money needed to even pay our invoice. When I worked as a virtual assistant, I worked with several start up business owners… and I remember with one of them about a year into us working together, where in that year she had not made a dime in her business yet we had changed her branding and website three times.  I knew that everything she… Read More »The Truth About What High Paying VA Clients Want

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No Problem, I’ve Got It!

Everyone I talk to this summer seems to be running just to keep up. Is that you too? Probably. With the kids out of school and the nice weather beckoning us, anyone who works from home really can struggle with staying interested in work, and getting it all done. I don’t usually have that problem, but for some reason this summer the pool is calling to me, and I’m more interested in what my son & husband are doing outside my office. My clients are also on holidays here and there, and attending a lot of events lately. So our schedule is a little messed up from the steady ‘launch’ phase that preceded the summer months. So here are a… Read More »No Problem, I’ve Got It!

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What Inspires You in Your VA Business?

I recently had a conversation with my accountability partner about what inspires me in my daily work. It started with a conversation about what we had done over the past two weeks and what was coming up work-wise. I mentioned that there was one thing I was doing lately with my clients that was really fun. It made doing the work easier, just being able to get excited about it. Not everything we do in our business will be fun, of course, but it brought us to a conversation of what we enjoyed most, and how we could each do more of that in our businesses. I teach people to set up their businesses the way they want – so… Read More »What Inspires You in Your VA Business?

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Make a Decision – And Stick to It

I was recently at a conference and had an ‘a-ha’ moment. I realized that one of my business downfalls is sticking to decisions I make. It’s easy enough to make a decision about something, but then the follow through for that is really the more important part of keeping the decision. For instance, if you decide to do a certain marketing initiative in your business, what are your next steps? Do you write it down? Tell someone? Set up a strategy? Who holds you accountable to getting it done? Making the decision is usually the part that feels most challenging, but it’s the rest of it that often makes things not work. Here are my tips for how to make… Read More »Make a Decision – And Stick to It

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Do Less To Be More Productive in Your Virtual Assistant Business

Sounds kind of funny, doesn’t it – stop doing anything to make yourself more productive? But it really is true. In order to be your best self in your business, you need to shut down the business stuff and take time to recharge. Often. In effect, do less. For many years now, I have operated my business during standard business hours. I am basically in my office from 9 to 4 each day. And I shut it down after that. Occasionally I’ll need to do some catch up, but for the most part I only take on as much work as I can do during my regular business week. It didn’t used to be that way. Like many of you,… Read More »Do Less To Be More Productive in Your Virtual Assistant Business

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One Thing To Do Now To Improve Your VA Business Marketing

I have been doing a lot of business planning lately, and I always come back to the same piece of advice – for myself and for other small business owners. Do you know what that one thing is? Planning! Planning is the most important part of any goal or strategy. In fact, if you can plan what you want to do, you will improve your marketing in various ways. You’ll improve: your overall message your clarity and focus your methods of communication and even just your habit and schedule Planning things doesn’t have to mean that you are structured and not able to be creative. On the contrary, actually. You can actually increase your creativity when you give yourself a… Read More »One Thing To Do Now To Improve Your VA Business Marketing

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5 Tips to Selecting the Perfect Coach for You

5 Tips to Selecting the Perfect Coach for You

As people start to realize that I offer coaching services to Virtual Assistants, the question always arises: how do I know who is the right coach for me? This is great question. First of all, it’s important to realize that your coach has to be a good fit for you. Just because someone is a well-known coach does not mean that working with them will be a good investment for you. You need to make sure of several things before you take the plunge. 1. What is their area of specialty? It’s essential to know what they offer as their specialty – because if it’s not a fit for what you need right now, then it might not be the… Read More »5 Tips to Selecting the Perfect Coach for You

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