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Start Your VA Business With Where You Are – And Then Get Moving!

As a Virtual Assistant, one of the most important things that you can do for your business is to grow with it. When you first started your business, you probably had a laundry list of administrative services that you offered. This is a good thing! Starting with what you know and as I call it ‘where you are’ is the best way to jump into the world of being a VA. But to keep your business fresh and exciting, you need to keep it moving forward and growing. One of the ways you can do this is to get really focused on your service offerings. Specializing your skills and service offerings allows you to easily raise your rates and build… Read More »Start Your VA Business With Where You Are – And Then Get Moving!

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Stop Fearing the World Wide Web

If you’re reading this, chances are that you use the Internet in your life. For buying stuff. For chatting on Facebook. For sending emails. You may even use the web to help grow your business, promote your services, and sell your products. If you already know this, awesome! But if you are still wondering how the heck you can personally start to leverage the web to grow your business and make more money, keep reading … While everyone knows YOU CAN make money on the web, many people stop short of actually being able to make money on the web. It’s not that it’s particularly hard to do. It can just be scary when you consider all the different pieces… Read More »Stop Fearing the World Wide Web

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June Membership Registration

Have you registered for the Your VA Mentor Membership Program yet? New content for June is being pulled together as you read this! Each month we select a topic – and the topic for June is Service Offerings. Setting up (or adjusting!) great service offerings for our clients sometimes goes by the wayside after we start to work with them. On our June teaching call, Analyzing Your Services to Streamline and Increase Revenue, we are going to talk about: how to identify packages of services we can offer our clients how to stop doing things we don’t want to offer as services analyzing the rates we charge, and easy ways to increase them to make more money and much more!… Read More »June Membership Registration

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7th Annual Online Virtual Assistant Convention

I’m very excited to be a speaker in this year’s OIVAC event – the 7th Annual Online Virtual Assistant Convention. It’s an online, multi-day event that takes place this year from May 17 to 19, 2012. The theme this year is: Innovate, Integrate, Motivate and I’m happy to speaking in the Motivate category with my topic: 5 Tips to Strategically Market Your VA Business. By setting up a strategy to market your VA business, you will experience more growth and development, which is what the approach is for this year’s OIVAC conference: to help innovate you with the latest trends and ideas, to help you implement with the latest tools and technologies, and to motivate you to take action to… Read More »7th Annual Online Virtual Assistant Convention

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Are you a good student?

Many Virtual Assistants find themselves, at one time or another, looking around for various types of training to help them enhance their businesses. If you have taken any training courses or programs … have you been a good student? There are many ways that you can evaluate yourself as a student: 1. Is the timing right? When you decide to take a course, is it something that you will be able to implement in your business right away? If not, the timing is probably not right for you to take the course at this time. The material and lessons that you will come away from the course with need to be brought into your business immediately in order to be… Read More »Are you a good student?

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Grow with your Virtual Assistant business!

As a Virtual Assistant, one of the most important things that you can do in your business (and for your business!), is to grow with it. Although you might go into business for yourself with a very static view of which services you will provide, you need to be aware that the old adage ‘a change is as good as rest’ is really true. You can breathe new life into your everyday work by keeping an eye out for change and growth opportunities! I have been a Virtual Assistant for many years, but over the years I have grown from providing financial services in the hospitality industry to providing Internet marketing, social media and virtual event services for coaches. I… Read More »Grow with your Virtual Assistant business!

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