Tawnya Sutherland

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Becoming a VA But Were Afraid to Ask!

During this information-rich session based on Tawnya's own experience as a Virtual Assistant, you will learn the steps to take to become a successful Virtual Assistant with the potential to earn an above average income, including:

• Why there is increasing demand for Virtual Assistants, and how to take advantage of this market
• The best way to train to become a successful Virtual Assistant
• The most important thing you need to do if you want to earn a 6-figure income from home as a Virtual Assistant
• Common myths that might be holding you back from creating the career of your dreams
• Which personality trait is a must-have for anyone who wants to be a successful business owner
• The five things you can do to gain instant credibility for your Virtual Assistant business
• Where to find clients for your new Virtual Assistant business

Karri Flatla

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3 Little Things (And One Big Thing) to Help VAs Create Winning Web Copy

Writing for the web isn’t about greatness. In fact, some of the highest paid web copywriters today write in very simple prose. Yet their words convert traffic into sales. How do they do it?

Most VAs and other virtual professionals dread the blank screen. They just don’t know what to say or how to say it. In this seminar Karri will help you get past your “copy blocks” and put words to the page that your prospective clients will gobble up. Learn how to pull the trigger on your traffic’s desire to take action while they’re at YOUR website.

It’s not as tough as you think!

Anna Baron

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What Every VA Should Know About SEO

Anna Baron shares with you her knowledge on Search Engine Optimization. Learn SEO tips and tricks designed to help small business owners understand the basics of ethical search engine optimization.

This teleseminar will teach you how to increase the visibility of your web site in the search engines.

Alyssa Gregory

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27 Tips for Being a Successful Virtual Assistant

In this presentation, Alyssa will discuss the nuts and bolts of what it takes to succeed as a virtual assistant. She will touch on everything a VA should know -- how to establish a business, marketing, client relations, networking and more!

These tips are an expansion of the 20 Secrets for Success as a Virtual Assistant, as presented in the book, VA Secrets Revealed! An Insider's Guide to Being a Successful Virtual Assistant.

Janet Barclay

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The Power of Personality Type

In this seminar, you'll learn:

• how your personality type affects your relationship with time and space
• why some people have more difficulty than others getting and staying organized
• how to understand your clients' working styles
• how to develop strategies that work for you

Cathy Fraser

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The Foundation for Social Media Marketing

In all aspects of marketing there needs to be a plan to define the purpose and the goals and how you are going to measure the results. Without a plan in Social Media you can waste a lot of time and effort. The purpose of this workshop is to show attendees the steps for developing a focused plan specific to on-line business owners.

• Developing a social media plan for a Virtual Assistant
• 7 building blocks of social media
• Why a focused/strategic marketing plan is critical
• 10 important ground rules in social media
• Social media etiquette
• Ways to evaluate and measure social media results
• 5 steps on how to develop a focused social media plan

Kathy Colaiacovo

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Twitter Tips for Virtual Assistants – Make it Work for You

• Learn how to start out on Twitter following along with the rules and etiquette. 
• Customize and Maximize your time and effort on this social media channel.
• Learn how you can connect with others.
• Provide value to your ‘friends’ and gain exposure and more business along the way.

Julie Perrine

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Developing Your Indispensable Personal Brand

When you hear names like Nike and Starbucks, or Oprah Winfrey, what images or thoughts immediately come to mind? When someone hears your name, what type of brand recognition is associated with you?  

Developing an indispensable personal brand takes conscious thought and effort. It’s absolutely vital to long term success. While you are working hard at establishing your career, company, or product lines, your name becomes as integral to your business success as the product or corporate brand you are establishing. Where do you begin in establishing or recreating your personal brand?  

Learn what personal branding is, why personal branding matters, and how to develop an indispensable personal brand for yourself.

Michelle Mangen

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Bookkeeping for VA’s and How to Stay on Top of It

• How to organize so  your bookkeeping is easier
• Three things that will make recordkeeping easier
• Making the most of tax deductions
• How to reduce Accounts Receivable

Mary-Lou Ashton

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Networking for Success

You are your walking brochure. In this session you will learn how to take the first steps to developing and expanding your network of potential clients, set goals and take the fear out of face-to-face networking while maximizing your connections.

Diana Ennen

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Publicity and Marketing That Works

Ready to jumpstart your PR campaign. Let’s do it.  I'll show you how to write a killer press release, an article that rocks, and most importantly how to get the best results out of everything you do. Oh yes, we’ll also discuss social networking as it applies to PR too.

Cristina Favreau

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How to promote your expertise, even if you don't think you're an expert

In order to be a successful VA, you must let people know what you can do for them. You have something uniquely different to offer and ARE an expert at something (even if you don't know it yet). Cristina Favreau will teach you 4 simple secrets to nailing down your expertise and using it to attract clients – all without sounding like you’re bragging!

Pam Ivey

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The Power of Passive Income

VAs trade time for money and as we know all too well, there are only so many hours in the day. Why cap your earning ability?

Learn other ways to add income to your VA business:

• affiliate marketing
• packaging your services
• writing and selling ebooks
• referral marketing, and more!

Lauren Pibworth

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Quacking the Surface – Managing Your Customer’s Perceptions

The customer perceptions we are creating every moment are huge factors in determining our success. By managing your client’s perceptions, and their expectations – you can BE the business of your dreams, even while you are still creating it!

Let’s explore...

• Who you are now
• Who you want to be
• How you are going to get there!

Elayne
Whitfield-Parr

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Successfully Responding to RFPs

Having the opportunity to respond to an RFP is one of the best ways to reach a potential client that has already expressed that they need/want the services of a Virtual Assistant.  This seminar will tell you all you need to know in order to successfully respond to RFPs and increase your client base. 

Tina Forsyth

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Why Being an Online Business Manager Isn’t For the ‘Faint of Heart’

Do you have what it takes to work as an Online Business Manager? Before you dive wholeheartedly into this role I invite you join me for a journey in the ‘day of an OBM’s life’, where I will share the good, bad and the ugly of working at this level.

Rebekah Zobel Jones

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Increasing the Credibility of Your Website – and You!

When we are putting our websites online, we know that we are trustworthy. But how can we show that to our website visitors? Learn how to effectively answer your visitors’ questions before they are asked by utilizing the four simple keys to increasing your online credibility!

Michelle Schoen

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Double your VA Income as a Webinar or Video specialist

In this seminar you'll learn:

• Exactly what Webinars are and will they work for your clients? 
• How to select a Webinar platform-there are A LOT to choose from
• How to promote Webinars using the latest in Social Media, Internet Marketing, email and more
• What technical skills are necessary to become a Webinar Specialist-it's not what you think! 
• What you need to record/edit Webinars and create products from them
• Using Webinars to build your own VA business

Andrea Kalli

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Tips For Virtual Assistants to Build a Tricked-Out Facebook Business Page

Take your Facebook Business Page from “ho-hum” to “WOW”. Learn the savvy techniques you’ll need to know to make your clients page stand out from the rest, including:

• The MOST IMPORTANT first step you’ll want to give some thought to
• Creating a custom image to fit the space Facebook gives you
• Best applications for businesses to use
• Adding an opt-in form for an e-newsletter or blog subscription (or whatever)
• Techniques to use images throughout to create that visual punch
• Ideas on how to create a crowd-drawing community
• Best ways to communicate with your Fans
• Ways to promote your page
• The true benefit of using  Facebook Business Pages

Kathie Thomas

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How Blogging Can Help Brand Your Business

Kathie will look at how you can use a blog to brand your business, demonstrate expertise in your field and build your mailing list.  Blogs can be used for regular websites today and for producing regular new content.  She’ll also look at how quickly blogs are listed on search engines compared to traditional websites.

Kathie encourages you to bring your questions and examples of blogs or networking tools you are already working with.

Kristi Pavlik

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The Basic Systems You Need to Have in Place to Maintain a Successful VA Practice

• Do you find yourself over-tasked or forgetting things that need to be done?
• Do you wish you had systems that could ensure better productivity and client satisfaction?

Find out how to set up your systems and processes and pave the way for great success in your virtual assistant business.

Dawn Goldberg

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Powerful Writing - What It Can Do For Your Business AND Your Clients' Businesses

As VAs, most of our communication is in the written form.  We're emailing our clients and their customers, writing blog posts, posting updates on Facebook and Twitter, at the very least.  If we're rock star VAs, we might be writing web and ad copy, spearheading marketing campaigns, and heading our clients' customer service departments.  Powerful writing is key to showcasing your clients in the best, most successful light - and for your business as well.

Tammie Neumiller

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Client Relationships That Can Make or Break Your Business

In the virtual world – relationships are key!  It’s so easy to lose a client to the ‘other guy’ or gain a bad reputation.  With an online business the word travels faster than gossip at the hair salon. I will cover effective ways to build a successful client relationship.

Jeannine Clontz

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Finding a Niche and Marketing to That Target

Still haven’t decided on a Niche?  Convinced being a Generalist is the way to go?  Have a Niche but not sure how to market to them?  This session will provide you with tips on establishing a niche (including establishing your ‘Ideal Client Profile’) and finding ways to economically market to them.

Candy Beauchamp

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What Every VA Needs to Know About Their Clients and Their Money

Budgets, software choices, merchant accounts, invoicing, getting paid, bartering... there are so many things that go into the money side of your virtual assistant practice that it can make your head spin! Veteran virtual assistant and bookkeeper Candy Beauchamp talks to us about how to handle these things and more in this fun and informative session about taking care of the money side of your business.

Yvonne Weld

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YES-aholics (Not So) Anonymous!

A 12 Step Program to take back control and learn how to find balance in both work and life.

Are you a

• workaholic
• online addict
• a yes-aholic
• or worse … a doormat?

Join this workshop and learn the 12 steps to learn to say no and still be successful!!

Michelle Jamison

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Myths of the Multi-VA

The Multi-VA Business has become a popular alternative business model for Virtual Assistant’s who are facing the prospect of overflowing work, a full practice and turning away clients. 

The topic of the Multi-VA Business has generated much interest, yet there are still some misconceptions on what the Multi-VA Business is all about. 

In this session we will hone in on the top 10 myths of the Multi-VA Business. 

Patty Dost

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Being the VAs VA

Join us to hear about becoming the “VAs VA”. This interactive teleseminar will answer the following questions about working as a Subcontractor for Virtual Assistants:

• How do I start working for Virtual Assistants?
• What do I need to know to work for Virtual Assistants?
• Where do I find Virtual Assistants looking for assistance?
• Why do I want to work for Virtual Assistants?
• How much money can I make?