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Teleclass Recordings

Our more recent teleclasses have been recorded and are available for purchase for a small fee. This fee will assist us in further promoting the VA industry through trade shows, conferences, and other promotional venues. We appreciate your support. Enjoy!

Krista Green
Krista Green,
Krista Green International Inc.

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$5.00

Get Noticed, Be Remembered: Creating a Personal Brand Strategy for Success

In this session, Krista Green, a leading expert on personal branding, will show you how to brand yourself, become a star and launch your business (or personal life) onto the fast track to success.

You’ll learn how to instantly communicate your values, personality, talents and unique skill set while transforming the way you lead your life. Whether you are trying to get ahead in business or in your personal life, Krista demonstrates with remarkable insight how professionals, entrepreneurs, media personalities and even parents can develop and control their own personal brands to influence the way others view them. Plus: Brand-enhancing secrets that celebrities use to become the “brand of choice”!

In this seminar, learn the secrets to building your own unforgettable personal brand strategy for success!

Cindy Greenway

Cindy Greenway,
Victoria Business Solutions

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$5.00

Understanding Your Client .... Do YOU Know what they DON'T know?

"I don't know what I don't know." is one of the most memorable statements I heard from a small business owner on a telelclass on how to boost business with a Virtual Assistant.

It took me a few weeks to fully understand what this person was telling me.  Do you fully understand?

Virtual Assistants assume their potential and current clients have a full understanding of:

  • what a Virtual Assistant is
  • why they need a VA
  • how a Virtual Assistant can help them (including how to get started)
  • how to delegate to a Virtual Assistant
  • how to communicate with a Virtual Assistant 
  • ... and much more.

The truth is, most small business owners have very little or NO idea how to work with a VA.   

In order to build a VA business and have successful and ongoing relationships with new and current clients, YOU, the Virtual Assistant, must tell your clients what they don't know.

Join me and I'll provide you with specific steps you can implement to fully understand your client and TELL them what they don't know.

Craig Cannings

VAClassroom

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$5.00

Includes summary workbook in PDF format too!

How Virtual Assistants Can Profit from the Social Media Explosion

The Social Media Movement is one of the fastest growing and most prolific marketing channels on the Internet today. Internet businesses are increasingly enthusiastic about leveraging the potential of many top social media channels, such as Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter, but simply cannot find the hours in the day to perform all the necessary Social Media Marketing activities.
The answer for many businesses now is to enlist the right Virtual Assistant to handle many of their ongoing Social Media support tasks such as managing their Facebook groups, commenting on pertinent industry blogs, networking in Linkedin, sharing videos on YouTube , tracking their online reputation and so much more.

This live 1 hour tele-seminar event will reveal:

  • Two of the hottest niches for Virtual Assistants in 2008
  • How to win new clients and increase income potential simply by using Facebook
  • Five Social Media Tasks Internet Businesses would love to delegate
  • The Best Social Media Research Tools

Also, get a "sneak preview" of VAClassroom's Internet Marketing VA Training Certification Program.

 

 

Alicia Forest

 

 

 

 

Alicia Forest,
Client Abundance


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$5.00

Creating Client Abundance in 21 Steps

Are you a Virtual Assistant or other solo professional who's frustrated and discouraged by your lack of clients, money and time?

What if you could work with only a handful of your Ideal Clients AND still make more money than if you were working with 10+ private clients?
What if you could sell your knowledge and expertise as information products to make more money while you sleep?
And what if you could take that information and share it with your clients, adding a huge benefit to them for working with you?

Join me to discover how you can enjoy the peace of mind, joy and freedom that comes from having an abundance of clients, money and time to truly enjoy your life. On this call, you'll learn the 6 simple steps to turn your business into an online profit-producer, from scratch and on a shoestring, while gaining more time and freedom in your life, faster and easier than you can imagine.
A few of the concepts we'll cover include:

  • How creating a "Marketing & Product Funnel" gives you a roadmap to more clients and more money;
  • 6 simple steps to creating passive income streams, quickly and effectively; and
  • How serving instead of selling helps to build your business with integrity.

To learn more or sign up for Alicia's newsletter, visit www.clientabundance.com

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$5.00

Includes valuable workbook in PDF format too!

 

Build the Marketing Framework For Your VA Business

Do you have a marketing framework set up for your VA business?

Do you know what your core marketing strength is and how you should build your framework around it?

Whether you're a VA who is just starting out or who's been around awhile AND you're serious about getting results from your marketing, then please join Jody Gabourie The Small Business Marketing Coach, on this information-rich teleseminar.  You'll find out:

  • what exactly is a marketing framework and why it’s so crucial for your success
  • the different components you must have in your framework
  • ideas and suggestions on what marketing tactics to use for your particular marketing strength
  • what marketing strategies you can add to your marketing framework
  • what you can start doing today to find and keep your most profitable clients

See you on this exciting teleseminar where you can learn all about creating a marketing framework that will help you and your VA business be a success!
Bonus 1: You’ll get a valuable worksheet to use during the call to start getting into action right now!
Bonus 2: Jody will also share a link to get a free copy of her ebook Your Marketing Mindset:  Is it Helping or Hurting You?

Kate Bacon
Kate Bacon,
Pier to Peer Coaching

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$5.00

How to Design a VA Business to Fit Your Life

Kate Bacon speaks from her own personal experience about how she created a VA business niche working with clients with whom she shares core values and business ethics.  She will talk about how by starting from the premise that by becoming clear about how you want to life your life you can only then create a business to fit that plan.  Drawing on the work of Michael Gerber and the E-Myth concept she is able to help VAs design a successful business that fits their lives.

Outline:

  • Kate’s own inspirational story of how her VA business developed and evolved over 5 years – and how she only works with clients she loves
  • Inviting participants to look at the tasks they love to do, the people with whom they enjoy working as their starting point for getting clear about what they want their businesses to look like
  • Outlining Michael Gerber’s E-Myth concept – the different skills/personalities required to run a successful business
  • Taking participants through the “Primary Aim” exercise enabling them to start creating a plan for their life
  • From the information thus gained assisting participants to create a blueprint for their ideal VA business
Multi-VA Guide

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The Virtual Assistant's Guide To The Multi-VA Business

Learn how to bring together a skilled and talented TEAM of VAs for your own business.  The Virtual Assistant’s Guide to the Multi-VA Business shares the little-know secrets of where to start and how to structure a multi-VA business; the roles and responsibilities of both the VAs and the business owner; How to find and hire the BEST team possible; How to successfully define and communicate your business to potential clients, and so much more.

The Virtual Assistant’s Guide to the Multi-VA Business will guide you step-by-step through ALL these challenges and shorten your learning curve by months. The Guide eliminates many of the potential hazards you could experience, so that you’ll reap the financial and personal rewards much sooner.

VAClassroom

Master 25 “in-demand” skills in one of the hottest growth areas for VAs: Internet Marketing!

VAClassroom’s Internet Marketing VA Training Certification is specifically designed to:

  • Provide you with cutting edge Internet Marketing Training that businesses need you to have right now.
  • Increase your hourly wage rate and income potential by being able to offer specialized Internet Marketing support services.
  • Reduce the time and hassle of trying to teach yourself, when you can access an Internet Marketing VA Training program that gives you everything you need to know!
  • Build your client base at a much faster rate by offering “in-demand” Internet Marketing support services.

Access our Interactive Learning Environment, complete with over 50 streaming videos and demos, class discussion forums, live coaching and a comprehensive 70 page Internet Marketing resource guide. PLUS, receive 60 days FREE access to the VAClassroom VIP Membership Site.

Systems of a Successful VA

Systems of a Successful VA

Whether you're a brand new  or “seasoned” VA,  the systems contained in this eBook will give you the tools needed to ensure you're the one running your business instead of your business running you!

This eBook is chock full of visuals, step-by-step directions, templates and added resources to guide you in creating systems that are unique to your VA practice. Generic template forms are included to help you fill in the gaps. 

By the time you are done, you can just print out the forms, and you will be ready to roll!  Not only will you have your systems documented, but you'll also gain a better understanding of how your business is running, what systems need to be tweaked, and even what to outsource yourself – now isn’t that a novel idea! :)

Virtually Successful

Virtually Successful – 8 Simple Ways for Virtual Assistants to Find (and Keep) Clients provides Virtual Assistants with specific and proven strategies to create a successful and satisfying business.

Each year thousands of administrative professionals leave their employment in search of a better and more flexible life as a Virtual Assistant. Once the office is set up, the website is created and the business cards are ready to be handed out, the realization and struggle of finding 'good' clients and earning a decent living is experienced by (too) many.

  • How can the transition between office employee to business owner literally make or break your business?
  • What is the most single essential 'ingredient' you must have as a Virtual Assistant in order to build long-term relationships with your clients?
  • When is it best to listen to the 'pit of your stomach' as you connect with new
    potential clients.

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Marketing for Virtual Assistants

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The Virtual Assistant's Guide to Marketing

The Virtual Assistant’s Guide to Marketing - 2nd Edition has been written by a professional VA for VAs. Whether you are an aspiring VA who is just starting your journey into the virtual world, or are a seasoned VA looking for innovative ways to move your practice forward to the next level; this book will be of benefit to you.

The primary focus of this Edition remains unchanged from the original - the ‘VAs approach to marketing’. This 2nd Ed. offers updates and clarifications of the marketing cycle, finding your ideal client, niche markets, and two new chapters exploring ‘target marketing’ and marketing via writing using articles and blogs. The author provides a comprehensive review of company identity and how to successfully build solid business relationships.

 

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