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Strategies for a Thriving VA Business

Do you strategize in every area of your business? Only some areas? (or should I even ask – any??) Many virtual professionals I know have gone through that phase where they just put one foot in front of the other and hope that things go well. The problem with that is that if you don’t have a plan in place, you can experience a lot of issues. you can go off track worse, you can go nowhere you can’t measure your successes In order to know whether things are going the best way possible in your business it’s important to determine where you want to go, how you want to get there, how you are GOING to get there, and… Read More »Strategies for a Thriving VA Business

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What’s On Your Mind?

What’s on your mind? You get greeted with this question every time you log in to your Facebook profile. It’s a pretty simple question when you think about it … it really just means … what are you thinking about at this very moment? On the surface, that question might cause you to think of something that is happening during your day, or something you will be doing soon. From a marketing standpoint, it goes deeper than that. What are you planning? What are you strategizing? What are you working on? What ‘mode’ are you in? When you are in business, you are always in some sort of mode. Strategy, planning, implementation, analysis. If you aren’t in one of these… Read More »What’s On Your Mind?

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One Thing You Need To Do To Make Your VA Business Grow

When you do your planning and goal setting in your business, do you really look at your numbers to determine where your revenue is coming from? If you don’t, you are missing out of a very large part of your business planning. When you are setting goals, one of the key things you need to assess is where the revenue will come from. In order to do this, you have to do a simple analysis of where it’s currently coming from. By focusing on this, you will be better prepared to plan new services, products or programs. It’s a simple thing to do, and it should be a part of your goal setting and business planning every time. 1. Make… Read More »One Thing You Need To Do To Make Your VA Business Grow

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Is Your Email System Working for You?

Staying organized is a really important part of being a successful VA. Working with more than one person usually means a lot of communication using things like email. I have always had fairly organized email where my clients are concerned – two folders per client – one active and one completed. The active folder items get filed to completed as they get done, and the completed folder items get purged at the end of 60 days. It’s a good system and it helps me keep my inbox and my task lists organized. But the other emails that come into my inbox are the ones that I recently realized were creating a problem for me. I have a ‘Read Later’ folder,… Read More »Is Your Email System Working for You?

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Strategies for a Thriving Virtual Assistant Business

Do you strategize in every area of your business? Only some areas? (or should I even ask – any??) Many virtual professionals I know have gone through that phase where they just put one foot in front of the other and hope that things go well. The problem with that is that if you don’t have a plan in place, you can experience a lot of issues: you can go off track worse, you can go nowhere you can’t measure your successes In order to know whether things are going the best way possible in your business it’s important to determine where you want to go, how you want to get there, how you are GOING to get there, and… Read More »Strategies for a Thriving Virtual Assistant Business

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How does your marketing calendar look?

I love to sit down and plan things in my marketing calendar. First, it really helps me to get a clear vision of what I have coming up. Second, it gets me excited about how I can expand and grow my business. And last but certainly not least, it makes me accountable to do the things I say I’m going to do! Planning a marketing calendar takes no more than a pen and paper. Sure, you can get as fancy as you like and set it up online, or you can do it like me and just use post-it notes on your wall calendar. Whatever you choose, you should be sure to detail out what you want to do so… Read More »How does your marketing calendar look?

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Just Do It!

Do you have a wish list of things you want to get done in your business? If you don’t, you should. You should have a list of short term and long term goals, and an even bigger strategy for your wish list. If you do, stop now and have a look at it. How are you doing with developing or implementing the things you need to get done? If you’re like me, you probably have a lot of things on the list. Maybe you don’t even know where to start. I say, start at the beginning! Just pick something … anything (something small would be best to start!) and get it done. Maybe you want to set up a blog.… Read More »Just Do It!

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Who Are You Accountable To?

What is it they say about the best laid plans? I think it’s something about planning being futile when you aren’t certain of what the actual outcome will be. That may be true if you make plans or goals in your business and you don’t have a strategy in place to roll it out, but it can also be true if you don’t have someone there to make sure it gets done. Who are you accountable to in your business? You are a small business owner. You probably work on your own for the most part (maybe with some support of your own, but maybe not yet). So who keeps you on track? Do you do it yourself? Do you… Read More »Who Are You Accountable To?

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