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Are You Blogging To Promote Your VA Business?

If you are not blogging to promote your Virtual Assistant business, you should be. Blogging is an easy way to promote your VA business – it takes a bit of practice to get it right, but consistent blogging helps you create regular content, showcase your expertise, and drive traffic to your website – free! Here’s how simple it is: Create regular content. When you write just one blog post a week, you will be creating new content for your VA website. And that content can be repurposed to use in your other marketing initiatives, like social media. The search engines love new content. When you publish a new article, Google and other search engines recognize that as a new page… Read More »Are You Blogging To Promote Your VA Business?

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Find Your Virtual Assistant Squad – Not Where You Think

Stop asking for advice in VA groups about every little thing for your VA business. Is that a harsh piece of advice? I’m sure it sounds harsh, and it’s kind of meant that way, but for good reason! Virtual Assistants are full of questions. We are a naturally inquisitive type of personality. As a business owner, that can be a good thing. In fact, I regularly encourage you to ask questions wherever possible! But more and more I see VAs asking for advice about the SIMPLEST things. I see VAs ask others if their rates are too high, because although they say they are confident with their rates, clients are telling them they charge too much. I see VAs ask… Read More »Find Your Virtual Assistant Squad – Not Where You Think

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Managing Commitment Will Make You a Better VA

Here’s the story of when my piano teacher fired me for a lack of commitment. When you start learning something new, it’s not too hard to find your commitment – and motivation – to want to do it well. As time wears on, and the shine wears off, it becomes harder to keep up the initial level of commitment. We need to find ways to get motivated to keep going. Much of the time if we don’t get help with motivation, we simply give up. It’s why most New Year’s resolutions don’t last. It’s also why my piano teacher fired me when I was 15. I was a very good piano player. I could pick up a piece of music… Read More »Managing Commitment Will Make You a Better VA

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How to Stay Positive and Optimistic When Being a VA is Hard

The power of positive thinking in your Virtual Assistant business is an excellent skill to learn. Do you have trouble staying positive? When we start our VA business, it is easy to be optimistic. But as time goes on, it is very easy to let negativity set in. Sometimes we just have a bad day. Sometimes we get overwhelmed by client work. Sometimes we struggle to find clients. Sometimes we feel like it’s too much, and it’s probably just easier to go back to a J-O-B. There are any number of things that may take over that positive area of your brain and bring you down. Wow, nice optimistic article, eh?! But this is a real issue – especially during… Read More »How to Stay Positive and Optimistic When Being a VA is Hard

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How To Fix the Biggest Problem in Your Virtual Assistant Business

What is your biggest problem in your VA business? I recently had a conversation with a VA who was just getting her business started. I had offered her a complimentary consultation to answer some of her questions about getting started. Her question list was very, very long. That’s not a bad thing, but when you have lots of questions, guess what happens quickly? … OVERWHELM. She was overwhelmed by the things she thought she needed to do. She was overwhelmed by the things she wanted to do. She was overwhelmed by the things that she didn’t even realize she should be doing. She was kind of a mess. She felt overwhelmed, and confused, and really lost. The first thing I… Read More »How To Fix the Biggest Problem in Your Virtual Assistant Business

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Finding Motivation to Promote Your VA Business

What keeps you from getting out there and networking or marketing your Virtual Assistant business? I ask this question of many VAs when they are struggling to find clients, and it often comes down to one thing… lack of motivation. If we are not motivated to do something, we can convince ourselves that it’s not important, or that we are doing it the wrong way, or that we need more information or research done before proceeding. And because we work alone most of the time, we need to find ways to motivate ourselves to get a lot of things done that maybe we don’t feel like doing. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your… Read More »Finding Motivation to Promote Your VA Business

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Looking for the Upside During Challenging Times

The world has been slowed to a crawl because of Coronavirus. How are you coping? When things aren’t going the way we want them to in our business – we don’t have enough clients, or we don’t make enough money, or we burn ourselves out because we don’t charge enough (or can’t say no to a client) – it is easy (oh so easy!) to get down. It is easy to let the bad stuff overtake your mind, and your thoughts. With a pandemic, many things are out of our control. It can be even harder to see the upside. You might realllly have to look for it some days. Here are a few tips that might help: 1. Talk… Read More »Looking for the Upside During Challenging Times

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Are You Struggling With a Business Mindset?

Mindset plays a key role in many areas of your business. It probably sounds kind of woo-woo to talk about intangible things like mindset, but how you think about your business often dictates how you act, and how successful you are. “You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.” – Marianne Williamson Isn’t that a great quotation? It is true. A positive mindset goes a very long way in everyday life. Think about it. When you start your day focusing on things that make you annoyed, or anxious, or upset you in any way, what kind of a day do you think you will have? The key is to consciously decide how to change… Read More »Are You Struggling With a Business Mindset?

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