Bookkeeping Tools That Help You Budget Your Biz!
It’s beyond important to understand the importance of a budget and why you need one. If you don’t feel clear about that, or if you have one and hate the thought of doing a review, reading this should help. Clear now? Great. Because I want to talk about some tools to...Collaborating and Communicating With Your Virtual Assistant
When you decide to partner with a virtual assistant, you’re likely to already feel overwhelmed. Along with that, often comes a tendency to feel vulnerable about sharing your “stuff” with someone you barely know. It can be scary to admit that you don’t have it all...Gift-giving 2016: Fresh Ideas to Wow A Special Client
With Thanksgiving behind us, many of us will turn our attention today to finding and sending gifts to clients and valued business contacts. Because it can be a challenge to find things that are different and special, easy to order, and allow us to stay within a...You Can Put Family First and Still Have an Amazing Business
To an outsider, owning your own business can seem like a dream. You can set your own hours. You don’t have a boss to whom you must answer. You have unlimited abilities to earn income, to provide a better way of life for yourself and for your family. Furthermore, you...Big Benefit: A VA Who Stands for You
An important thing to know about working with an AssistU VA is that we’re all taught the concept of “standing for the client.” Let’s define that. Who wouldn’t want someone on the team with that attitude? When you’re the client, this might...Financial Advisors: Why Doing it all is Doing a Disservice
I’ve always wanted to help people. After working a number of years in retail and banking, I spent 18 years working for a financial planner who was also a registered investment advisor, and loved the way he made a difference in the lives of his clients. Wanting to do...Finding Confidence in My Imperfectly Perfect Life
The most important aspect of my business is confidence! In fact, confidence is the first thing I wish I would have had when I started my business! I always thought confidence was an unwavering self-assuredness in all you do. I thought confident people had it all...Raise Your EQ to Supercharge the Relationship With Your VA
In my opinion, Emotional Intelligence is more important to the client/VA relationship than anything else. Many clients remain solely focused on hard skills. Hard skills outline a person’s technical skill set and relative ability to perform specific tasks. Hard...It’s True: Time Away From My Business Improves Everything
If you’re new to me, you wouldn’t know that for close to two decades, I’ve taken a yearly sabbatical, and removed myself from the day-to-day work involved in leading and running AssistU for the entirety of Q4 each year. This year, it begins at the end of the day...
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