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Your VA Mentor: How to Get 3 New Clients in 60 Days

How to Get 3 New VA Clients in 60 Days

I am halfway through my Earn 50K as a VA Bootcamp and in our lessons we have arrived at Getting Clients. This is such a big part of being in business, but yet a lot of VAs just don’t know where to go to find clients. In fact, it’s one of the questions I am asked most often in my networking circles – where do I find clients? It’s not as hard as you think, but it has to start out with a plan – and a strategy. First of all, you know you should also be networking. You should always be connecting with new people (who could potentially be your clients) and you should always be following up with… Read More »How to Get 3 New VA Clients in 60 Days

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Your VA Mentor: Clear Your Brain Fog - and Bump Up Your Brain Power!

Clear Your Brain Fog – and Bump Up Your Brain Power!

I have been in ‘clean up’ mode lately. Part of that is due to the fact that I just rolled out a new program (my 50K VA Bootcamp). When I am building content for a program, I tend to grab all of my old notes from things I have taught before, as well as my ‘swipe’ file that contains new ideas that I want to implement in the program. In short, I kind of pull a lot of papers and books out of their hiding places. Once you do something like that, you can see just what it is you have been holding onto, and you can make the decision to use it or lose it. I made the decision… Read More »Clear Your Brain Fog – and Bump Up Your Brain Power!

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Your VA Mentor: Celebrate Your Successes, No Matter How Small

Celebrate Your Successes, No Matter How Small

Recently I guess I was multi-tasking without really intending too. I had several big projects on the go – some work, and some personal. I ended up finishing several of them all at once, or within a few days of each other, and the sense of relief and accomplishment I felt was really great. I shared it on my social media profiles and got really nice feedback from people who knew of one or more of my projects. This inspired me to go back to my Success Journal. Do you keep one? I have a beautiful journal that a client gave me as thanks for helping her with an event, and I use it as my Success Journal. A few… Read More »Celebrate Your Successes, No Matter How Small

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Your VA Mentor: Simple Tips to Help You Manage Multiple Clients

Simple Tips to Help You Manage Multiple VA Clients

This week I received an email from a VA who said that with all the training that people offer for Virtual Assistants, she hasn’t found anyone who teaches how to work with multiple clients. She had some specific questions about how to manage her client work. I understood that she was asking how to collaborate with clients and make sure that you had boundaries and procedures in place to ease the flow of work back and forth. She replied that it wasn’t what she was looking for. So we dug a bit deeper, and that’s when we got to her real question: how do you put systems in place to manage your workload during the day? Her specific example was… Read More »Simple Tips to Help You Manage Multiple VA Clients

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Plan your Successful Virtual Assistant Business

Do you have a business plan? If you do, congratulations! I bet you are doing fairly well in your business! Simply by having a plan in place that can help you set goals and build strategies, you are on your way to success! If you don’t, you are probably struggling or unsure about how to find clients, work or just success in general. One of the first things I do with any mentoring client or student in my training classes is look at their business plan. Most don’t actually have one – and so that’s the very first thing we do. Without putting all of your business plans down on paper, you can’t build a solid strategy to sell your… Read More »Plan your Successful Virtual Assistant Business

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Free Webinar: Build Your 50K VA Business in 4 Simple Steps

Virtual Assistants and Virtual Professionals: Do you still have trouble getting enough (or any!) clients? Have you experienced the ‘feast or famine’ income problem in your business? Do you work all hours and still don’t make enough money? Are you still trading your ‘hours for dollars’? Are you wondering why other VAs seems to be more successful than you? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, your business model is broken, and you need to keep reading so you can fix it. When you first started your business, you probably had that fire and drive and you KNEW you were going to make a go of it. But then reality set in when you realized it wasn’t as… Read More »Free Webinar: Build Your 50K VA Business in 4 Simple Steps

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Boundaries Help You Build a Better VA Business

“You teach people how to treat you.” Boundaries are essential to any successful business. There are boundaries that are necessary for many parts of your business, but in terms of client boundaries, you need to really think about many things, and you need to set your own policies or boundaries to manage the different personalities that will be working within your business. It’s critical in a virtual business when you are working with more than one client, to be able to articulate how you work with your clients. It’s true that you teach people how to treat you – by the way you set them up, by the way you interact with them, and by the way you react to… Read More »Boundaries Help You Build a Better VA Business

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Are You an E-Hoarder?

I was recently reading a blog post from Leslie Shreve, of Productive Day.com http://productiveday.com/ about E-Hoarding. As a virtual business owner, I’m always trying to find new ways to keep myself organized and to tame the various forms of clutter that I seem to collect. And while I am admittedly a collector of many things that I probably don’t need (my husband would laugh at that one!)  one of the things I actually do have good control over is my email. I have a system in place to keep my email clean and clear, and although I still probably have more ‘on file’ than many people, I am confident that my system works for me. What do I do? First,… Read More »Are You an E-Hoarder?

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