As we have touched on previously, you are totally in charge of, and responsible for, everything that happens in your business. So what are your expectations? What do you hope to achieve? What do you do to stay current with the industry? Do you know or understand where the industry is headed? In order for us to have great [...]

Life on both a personal and professional level is going to throw you plenty of lemons. How you handle those situations will make or break your business. As we discussed earlier, if you look at each challenge you are faced with, in both your personal and professional lives, as an opportunity to grow and learn, all your [...]

This to me is HUGE. So many of the VAs I work with who don’t stay in business, or whose business stagnates, are those with low self-esteem, or negative attitudes. Remember earlier when we discussed surrounding yourself with positive and supportive people? You have to be positive and supportive, too. When I started, I didn’t have extremely low [...]

This is a biggie! The definition of entrepreneur is: “One who organizes and assumes the risk of a business or enterprise.” – and the buck stops there. You are totally responsible for every facet of your business. It’s all on your shoulders. Any mistakes that are made – your mistakes. Any successes or achievement, yours. But having a true entrepreneur’s mindset is [...]

Starting and growing a successful business isn’t easy. You need to surround yourself with like-minded people. And that means people who encourage and support you in starting and maintaining a business. As hard as this is to say, you may have to minimize connections with family and friends who are not supportive of you in a positive [...]

If you’ve been in business for any amount of time, you know that this is not easy. There’s no immediate success without very hard work. You have to really want to have your own business, and want it badly. You need to be totally committed to doing what’s necessary to make your business work. It also may mean [...]

As a Virtual Assistance Coach I’ve learned there are some people who are not coachable. They simply don’t understand the concept, or don’t have enough business acumen to understand how they might benefit from such a relationship. Two clients recently signed up for my 12-week one-on-one program; we’ll call them Debbie and Claire. Each had been in [...]

I’m Paying it Forward to Thank Everyone for Being a Coaching Client! Thanks so much to everyone who took advantage of my BOGO, One-on-One 30-minute coaching session special.  I really enjoyed connecting with so many of you and helping you work on your businesses.  To pay-it-forward, during the month of July, I’m offering a FREE [...]

We all have the same amount of time to expend each and every day, so why does it seem like some people have mastered their time better than others? As Virtual Assistants I think we struggle with this quite a bit.   I don’t think it’s about the time at all, I think it’s about how [...]

To continue our discussion of the advantages of article marketing to promote your business, we look at some immediate benefits. Carrying your name across the Internet can also give you some excellent reputational benefits. To build your reputation, focus the resource box more on you and less on a target website that you want people to [...]