Valued: Big Ways to Celebrate Your Admin
Next week is Administrative Professionals Day here in the US (as well as in Hong Kong and Malaysia!), which is a day set aside to celebrate admins everywhere, and we include virtual assistants in that group. And, boy, do they all deserve to be celebrated! Over the...Focused: 6 Steps to Knowing What to Delegate and to Whom
If you’re like many of the business folks I talk with, one of your struggles in deciding to work with a VA is knowing what to delegate. Your To-Do list is vast, and you have no real sense of what to give away and what to keep. You’ve been doing everything alone for so...How to Manage When You Hate to Manage
Soon after I started working for myself, a mentor told me to read The E-Myth Revisited*. It turned out to be game changing for me, mainly in helping me transition from being an employee and into embracing the three business personalities I would need to be...The #1 Quality I Value in a Virtual Assistant
I was doing a Wise Help Session last week to help a realtor get clear on his needs for working with a VA, and he asked me a terrific question that, I was stunned to realize, I’d never been asked before. He wanted to know what I consider to be the most important...Systems, Processes, and Automation: Your New Biz Besties
I was talking last month with one of my newer clients, discussing arrangements for a teleseminar he was preparing. He uses one application to manage the registrations, another to facilitate the delivery of his program, and an email marketing program to do the...Virtues of Laziness: Confessions of a Reformed Worker Bee
Like many of us, I grew up with the virtue of hard work extolled endlessly in a never-ending refrain. I come from an immigrant family so the classic narrative of starting from nothing and toiling away in order to claw one’s way up the ladder of success is practically...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...
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