A bunch of us over at Solo Masterminds are doing a wonderful five dollar only sale. I’m offering content to new clients for only five bucks an article, and my 49.95 eBook package is also on sale for only five dollars. You can also buy my VA eBook, but ONLY the book on Amazon.com but you may as well get the entire $49.95 package with all the extras for only five bucks right? Don’t miss out. This sale goes till the 15th of May.
And is it REALLY work? Do you try to fool yourself into believing that trolling Facebook and sharing funny pictures of cats all day is work? Do you spend time that feels legitimate on clients or their work, yet don’t charge for the time? How much unpaid work do you do each day? Week? Year? How much time are you steeling from your family and your business pretending to work? If you’re serious about your Virtual Assistant business it’s time that you take your time as seriously as you want other people to take it. No one is going to watch your time and how you spend it, but you. No one is going to tell you to get off the computer and go play with your kids, no one is going to tell you to say “NO” to that client who keeps wanting unlimited moments of your time. No one is going to show respect for your time but YOU. YOU’RE in the driver’s seat, this is your life and your business. I can’t come to your home and yell at you and tell you to get back to work, or if you’re done working billable hours today, go
I am getting ready to go to Solo Mastermind, Monday Breakthrough, but I was thinking about you all and about how we achieve our goals. I have some thoughts about this, of course, but I am also curious about yours. Achieving your goals can sometimes seem impossible. But, honestly, it’s not hard if you know where to start. The first place to start is to create a long term goal, then work your way backward toward today creating shorter term goals along the way that will ultimately, if you follow the calendar, get you to your major long term goal. For instance, if you want to go on a long trip, you don’t think you’ll just beam yourself to the final destination instantly, right? You realize that you have to first get your drive way. You can even go back further to getting out of the house. And further yet, to getting dressed, and further back still to getting up on time, and going to bed on time… I think you get the picture. Everything we do takes steps to get to the final destination, or goal. Let’s think of a business goal. Write it down. I want to earn
So many Virtual Assistants balk at the idea of choosing a specialized niche. They think that if the choose something they’ll get less work. But, nothing could be further from the truth. If you specialize in something you’ll be so much more likely to fill your client roster faster. Why? Because, you’ll become and expert in that area. You will have more time to study it, get really good at it, and keep up to date on the changes in that area. Over the years I have tried various niches as my skills grew or I got bored with something until I finally realize that my niche was content. Now I do everything to do with content from writing it (or hiring someone to write it) to editing it, formatting it, planning it, to posting it. I study how content affects search engine results. I study keywords and try to creatively incorporate them into the content that I write or edit. I enjoy pretty much every aspect of this niche, and I am very busy. Right now, I am adding Kindle Publishing to my niche because that has to do with content too. It’s important to stay on top of
How fun that I was looking for a course for VAs that would teach them how to become a Digital Publishing Specialist and today I found out that VA Classroom is offering a course that starts soon. The Digital Publishing Specialist Program is going to be really hot, and the seats are limited, so I don’t even want to waste your time telling you how great it is. If you’ve taken courses from VA classroom before, you already know. If you don’t know, you should try. This course is going to help you add a very valuable service to your offerings, if not become your main income maker! Everyone reads Kindle Books, and eBooks on their eReaders. All experts want you to read their books so they need people who know how to format their books correctly for a variety of eReaders and services. If you want to know how to format eBooks so that your clients (or yourself ) can publish on Amazon, this is the course for you. You can become a Digital Publishing Specialist and offer these exciting services. But you gotta hurry and sign up, very few seats are left and this is not a ploy.
Kindle formatting is a highly needed service today. Many people are wanting to convert all their old eBooks that are in PDF format to publish on Kindle. This can prove to be a very profitable service to add to your VA business. I have been looking high and low for a complete guide and I finally found it. I mean, sure you can follow Amazon’s directions for free, but I don’t know about you, but I learn better if I have step by step instructions. Plus as fast as things change, you will need up dates and this training I’m going to tell you about, offers lifetime updates (if you remember to sign up for it!) Unruly Guides puts out an excellent product that you can see by clicking here. The price for this eBook Formatting Kit, at the time of writing this blog post, is only $39.99! That’s a bargain when you consider all the training out there that costs 100 dollars plus. Not to mention, if you learn this valuable skill you can make that back, many times over, with just formatting one book for your clients. Not only will you be able to format to Kindle but
As a virtual assistant most of your income is fee for service. But, as a VA can you have some income that is passive? And should you have some that is passive? Well, if you want to create some side income that doesn’t require trading hours for dollars then it is imperative that you do create some type of passive income. So, here are some ways you can have passive income. 1. Article Writing — Via many different article marketing sites you can make money from your content. You can also do this on your own blog if you have some advertising on your site. 2. Affiliate Sales — As long as you live in a state that has affiliate sales, you can start niche websites or blogs revolving around selling certain products and making a percentage of sales. 3. Information Products — If you’ve created info products for your clients then you can create them for yourself. Whether your product helps other virtual assistants, or moms, or another group entirely that’s not the important part. The important part is to get your idea out there and start promoting your product. 4. Recommending Products — You can also recommend tools
It’s been a very busy couple of weeks here at Virtual Assistant Moms. You can’t tell, but you’ll find out soon enough. But let me assure you, it’s all good! Some of you got the invite to participate in coaching and took me up on my offer and we’re off to a great start! Nothing is more exciting than helping a new VA get started building her business (or his!). I really feel like you are all my babies and I want to take good care of you. Aside from that I’ve my youngest daughter Faye had her senior year military ball this past weekend. My oldest daughter Rebecca came to the ball too as she was also in the J.ROTC program at this school and her old chief is retiring so many alumni came to enjoy the ball and to say goodbye to the Chief. Look at how beautiful they are! The picture on the left is my youngest daughter, she is 18 years old and in the last half of her senior year of high school. I can barely even believe it. The picture on the right is my oldest daughter, 25, Rebecca. Her husband was at home
Today we had a great Monday Morning Break Through session at Solo Masterminds which has really inspired me. The topic was “Are you dreaming big enough?” Our host, Kelly McCausey gave the attendees some food for thought. Then I got to thinking about it and realized that these Monday Morning sessions really are like food. They are nourishment for our brains. The brain gets stimulated, and then we wake up and go about our week more informed, more excited, and more passionate about our business endeavors. It’s a great way to start the week and one of the reasons I joined then, Mom Masterminds, which has been re-branded to Solo Masterminds. Now you know, normally my posts do not relate that much to product promotions other than an advert here and there to help support this blog, but today, I just have to promote Solo Masterminds as much as possible because without it, I would not be where I am now. I didn’t need to learn to dream big through Solo Masterminds, but what I did need was concrete help making my dreams into goals and my goals into steps to achievement. I haven’t succeeded in ALL the ways I
Every new year we start out making grand plans that usually comprises a huge list of all that we will accomplish in the next 12 months. Somewhere around March, when the newness of the year has worn off all our wonderful plans start falling by the wayside. How can you prevent this cycle from continuing, ruining your chances of having a successful Virtual Assistant business that can support you and your family? There are four steps to ensuring that you never lose site of your goals again. Brainstorm — Some people call it brain dumping or mind mapping, but the concept is essentially the same. Get all your ideas down on paper, (or computer!) so that you can then choose a couple projects to put on the fast track. Organize — Using the file folder system in your computer, or if you prefer, a three ring binder, set up each project that you want to accomplish it it’s own file or folder. Include all the research, and each step of the process to complete each project. For instance, if you are going to write an eBook, you need a title, keywords, an outline, a marketing plan, etc… and you need
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