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Build a Referral VA Business

Are you: working long hours trying to get it all done by yourself in your VA business? working with (and drained by!) clients who are not ideal for you to work with (but are afraid to give up their money?) finding it difficult to keep your client pipeline full? experiencing ‘feast or famine’ each month on your work schedule? unsure of how (or even scared!) to raise your rates to what you deserve to earn? doing things you don’t love to do on a daily or weekly basis? still trading dollars for hours with your client work? wanting to specialize your services and don’t know how to implement that? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, I am… Read More »Build a Referral VA Business

Build Your Business Plan Easily

When I start mentoring a new VA, the first thing we talk about is the business plan. I am never surprised to hear that someone doesn’t have their business plan done. So many VAs just start their business by looking for clients and hoping to sign them. Writing a business plan is an essential part of any small business. It helps you to clarify everything about your business, and if you don’t have one yet you should look at sitting down and just doing it. A business plan will help you: plan what you are going to do realize how you are going to do it set goals and achieve them You don’t have to put together a complex business… Read More »Build Your Business Plan Easily

Social Networking to Find Prospects and Clients

This month at the Your VA Mentor membership group, we are talking about Finding Clients Online. Do you find it difficult to find and connect with prospects online? Do you even know where they are spending their time? Wouldn’t it be nice to find large pools of prospective clients that you can network with, all in one place (or two?) That’s what we’re going to talk about on our May call – Social Networking to Find Prospects and Clients. You can get access to this call by joining our membership now! http://www.yourvamentor.com/join-us/ Let’s face it, most of spend more time socializing online than we do actually networking. In this call, we’ll talk about how to put a plan in place… Read More »Social Networking to Find Prospects and Clients

What’s Your Marketing Strategy?

When you look at how you are marketing your business, what do you see? Is there rhyme and reason to it, or do you just ‘fly by the seat of your pants’? If that sounds like you, don’t worry – you are definitely not alone. Many VAs I talk to don’t really have a plan in place to market their business. But if you don’t plan, it’s a bit like throwing spaghetti at a wall – you put it all out there and just hope something sticks. It’s not a really effective plan. Marketing strategy isn’t difficult – it just takes sitting down and thinking about what you want to do, why you want to do it, and what results… Read More »What’s Your Marketing Strategy?

5 Tips to Market Your VA Business

Your VA Mentor Free Teleclass: 5 Tips to Marketing Your VA Business Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Time: 4:00 p.m. Eastern (not your time zone? Convert here). Register here: www.yourvamentor.com/teleclass Do you find yourself so busy working IN your business that your own marketing efforts get shuffled off to the side? If so, you are not alone. Many virtual professionals get so busy working with their own clients, that they don’t regularly market their own business. This can lead to dry spells in bringing on new clients, or even lost networking opportunities. It’s important to make sure that you are maintaining your marketing all year round, and of course bumping it up when necessary to bring new clients or prospects… Read More »5 Tips to Market Your VA Business

Join me each month!

I have an exciting announcement for you (one of several this week, as you may know!). I have just launched my new membership program … and I’d like to invite you to check it out. http://www.yourvamentor.com/join-us/ The results of the survey I put out to my community indicated that many of you are interested in getting support on a regular basis, but that not all of you are ready to make a big investment … so that’s what I’ve tried to provide with this program. The membership fee is $29/month and here is what you receive with that: a monthly teaching call (coming up May 9th) a monthly live Q&A call (coming up May 23rd) email support from Your VA… Read More »Join me each month!

Invest in Yourself To Grow Your Business

If you are like me, when you started your business, you probably didn’t think you’d have to go back to school, or get more training. After all, you were already the expert at what you were doing. It’s what made you set up your business in the first place. But once you’ve been around the block, you realize that the only way to grow your business is to keep on top of industry trends, learn new technology, and basically … plan to keep educating yourself in various ways. To not do this can leave you in the dust, especially in the virtual world. Learning can come in various forms – and at various price points. Here are a few examples… Read More »Invest in Yourself To Grow Your Business

Marketing Tips for your Virtual Business

Do you find yourself so busy working IN your business that your own marketing efforts get shuffled off to the side? If so, you are not alone. Many virtual professionals get so busy working with their own clients, that they don’t regularly market their own business. This can lead to dry spells in bringing on new clients, or even lost networking opportunities. It’s important to make sure that you are maintaining your marketing all year round, and of course bumping it up when necessary to bring new clients or prospects into your ‘funnel’. Here are a few ways you can bolster your marketing efforts: 1. Network regularly. Think about what it is you want to accomplish, and make a plan… Read More »Marketing Tips for your Virtual Business