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Stand Out by Being YOU!

When you are a service professional, you are selling your services, but really you are selling a lot more than that …you are selling yourself. Understanding your own value as a professional is one of the most challenging things that a small business owner has to do. In fact, a lot of small business owners I know don’t even realize that they have to sell themselves. There is a huge misconception among VAs particularly, that their services or skills are the thing that will sell them to a potential client. While it is your service offerings that clients need, they will most often decide to work with you, simply because you are YOU. And being YOU means being unique …… Read More »Stand Out by Being YOU!

Amp Up Your Productivity with These 5 Tips

Do you ever just look at yourself in the middle of the day and realize that you are not being productive? Maybe you are busy, doing lots of things, but you still feel like you are kind of going around in a circle, or just running in place? Busy time is not always productive time. I get people asking me all the time how to be better organized and how to get more done. Those two things go hand in hand for sure, but you don’t have to be organized to be more productive every day. (It helps!) Here are few tips that I use regularly to make sure that what I am doing is productive work, and not just… Read More »Amp Up Your Productivity with These 5 Tips

The Truth About What High Paying VA Clients Want

Guest Post by Tiffany Johnson There is a HUGE weight that implementer’s carry around billing our clients.  Specifically if we know our clients business isn’t making any money.  There is no worse feeling then having to have the declined credit card conversation with a client that we know is working hard but simply not making the money needed to even pay our invoice. When I worked as a virtual assistant, I worked with several start up business owners… and I remember with one of them about a year into us working together, where in that year she had not made a dime in her business yet we had changed her branding and website three times.  I knew that everything she… Read More »The Truth About What High Paying VA Clients Want

How to Get More Done Starting Today

Things have been exceeding busy in my work and life the last several months. From a personal standpoint, I have helped run three huge fund raisers and I have also been acting as campaign advisor for a friend of mine who is running for a city council position in the municipal election. I also hosted two huge parties at our house – one a family reunion (of sorts) and the other our annual pig roast and bocce tournament (usually with about 70 attendees). From a business standpoint, I have been uber busy as my clients are all very busy, successful business coaches who are rolling out great new products and programs. And, I rolled out a new session of my… Read More »How to Get More Done Starting Today

Checking In: Assessment Time!

A friend/colleague of mine came over the other day to do a business strategy session. I was all set up to meet with her in our living room. I don’t often have people into my office because it’s not too big, and well, it’s a sea of papers some days. If we do need to be in the office, I make sure to do my filing. My desk is not too bad, but I have another desk that is a dumping ground (so sue me, I’m human!) LOL Well this particular day, I was stuck on a support chat at my PC which is … in my office. So I had to set our strategy session up in there at… Read More »Checking In: Assessment Time!

10 Reasons Why Many VAs Will Not Make It

What a sad title, huh? So negative, you’re probably thinking. Well it’s true. I pride myself in sending out positive messages for the most part, but when I saw this video on YouTube a few days ago, it spoke so loudly to me that I knew I just had to share it with you. It’s a six year old video from the Acting Career Start Up channel on YouTube but the list he provides is almost identical to the list I would prepare for Virtual Assistants. Check it out and ask yourself honestly if you need to put more focus on any of these 10 things (or more than one?) to make sure that your VA business is the success… Read More »10 Reasons Why Many VAs Will Not Make It

4 Reasons VA Clients Will Buy From You

The most challenging thing I find as a business owner is to really believe that there are great clients out there that will pay you what you deserve and who will respect and adore you. I have found great clients, I have worked with great clients, but it’s still sometimes a challenge to convince myself that some of the people I have chosen to work with over the years have not been great. Does that make sense? I chalk it up to a value thing. Many of us have a very hard time recognizing our own value.  Maybe we have had a run of bad luck, or maybe we took on clients that we really didn’t want to work with,… Read More »4 Reasons VA Clients Will Buy From You

No Problem, I’ve Got It!

Everyone I talk to this summer seems to be running just to keep up. Is that you too? Probably. With the kids out of school and the nice weather beckoning us, anyone who works from home really can struggle with staying interested in work, and getting it all done. I don’t usually have that problem, but for some reason this summer the pool is calling to me, and I’m more interested in what my son & husband are doing outside my office. My clients are also on holidays here and there, and attending a lot of events lately. So our schedule is a little messed up from the steady ‘launch’ phase that preceded the summer months. So here are a… Read More »No Problem, I’ve Got It!