May, 2012

Step It Up VA Coaching

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DOs and DON’Ts for Building a Great Team

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. When it comes to building your Virtual Assistant business, hiring a great team makes all the difference. When you’ve got a pool of experts, you’ll be able to take on bigger projects, focus your talents-and best of all, make more money. Hiring go-to teammates gives your business a tremendous advantage, but there are some do’s and don’ts to keep in mind.

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Create Real Team “Feel” with Virtual Team Meetings

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by Donna Toothaker. Do you run a multi-VA business? Are you on the same page as your VAs? Working virtually means you may never see them in person – you may be hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Even so, team building is a foundational activity that keeps your team, and business, running smoothly; it can be done successfully even if you and your team are never physically in the same room.

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Make the Most of Your Business Downtime This Summer

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by Donna Toothaker. It is not uncommon for the summer season to be a slow period for many Virtual Assistants and business owners. This shouldn’t be a time to sit back and ride it out. Take advantage of this time to do those things that oftentimes get put on the back burner or at the bottom of the priority list. There can be a happy medium. Using this time efficiently can help things to run more smoothly during busy times , and can even allow for an increase in sales and service requests just by

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Think you don’t have time to market? Think again!

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by Donna Toothaker. We’ve all done it – putting our marketing and business building tasks on the back burner, because we think we don’t have the time to get it done. We may even feel as though in order to market, we need to take time away from our client work. But, if we don’t invest time back into our businesses, how will they grow?

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Time to Break Up?

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by Donna Toothaker. The phone rings. It is who you think it is, calling AGAIN. How many times has it been today? Three? Four? You know you should answer, but you dread the conversation. You slump in your seat and sigh. Is that an e-mail from her now? Is this a headache coming on? You can no longer avoid the inevitable. It’s break-up time. Just about every VA has had a client who presented challenges that proved too much to deal with for too little payback.

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