Virtual Moxie

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Skillfully manage your energy (action, then rest….be be sure to get enough rest). Control your attention -- Stop multi-tasking (task-shifting). When you shift, you lose depth. Cultivate emotions that serve you best -- Develop Emotional Intelligence. Define and live your highest purpose.

Skills 100

Skills Management 100

Virtual Moxie

MARCH 25, 2012

If you think clients really care about your techie skills, think again. What they really want (and need!) is your brain, critical thinking, creativity, knowledge, experience, expertise, and network.

Networking 100

Networking Skills Training 100

Virtual Moxie

JULY 29, 2012

Stop chasing the skills. Stop chasing the clients. Stop chasing the work. Take the time to get help with laying or strengthening your foundation, and then move forward again. To keep doing what you’re doing and expecting to see different results—well, that’s the definition of insanity.

Skills 100

Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

JANUARY 15, 2013

Learning skills that you know aren't a good use of your time and talents and that don’t lead to work that lets you be happy is a sucker’s game. Don’t play it. IF something needs adjusting, it’s likely to be how you position yourself from the get-go with the potential clients you talk with.

Skills 100

Skills Learning 100

Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 20, 2012

All of us, to greater or lesser extent, were taught social and appropriateness skills as children. One place to peek at about social skills for kids (which also apply to you as a grown up) is the National Association of School Psychologists site. And perhaps different still within each relationship we form. This page may help.

Negotiating 100

Negotiating Mentoring Skills Twitter 100

Virtual Moxie

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

You can chase the work and clients by chasing hot skills, or you can do what you love and attract clients who need that. What sounds better to you?

Skills 100

Skills Training 100

Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

While you''re working on your business and raising your marketable skills, don''t fail to work on yourself. Who you are matters far more than what you can do. In the end, nothing matters more to your business, or our world. Self-Care Standards'

Skills 100

Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

List skills you’re learning on you’re website. It doesn't scream out that you don't know what you're doing. Instead, it shows that you're a learner and grower, eager to invest in your professional dev.

Learning 100

Learning Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In fact, struggle shows a lack of discernment skills in that you aren't using resources to your advantage. No one gets any prizes for going it all alone, getting it done all alone, or struggling. Step into your administrative expertise. Ask for the help you believe you need, and then ask for more of it. . .

Skills 100

Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

APRIL 23, 2013

Your skills and gifts and heart are noteworthy, and today (and every day) we honor you. We take great comfort in your making the difficult seem easy, and we thrill that you never stop growing. You rock, and we know that nothing would be easy without you and all that you bring to the work you do every day. Communication Moxie'

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals Gifts Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

MARCH 4, 2012

You can't *know* that a skill you learn for a client today will be used by others (and the client can't, either). That's crap--and although it may sound reasonably logical, it's really just a way to try to talk you out of charging for time you spend working on something they've requested. Learning time = paid time.

Learning 100

Learning Skills Training 100

Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I’m now finding that prospective clients are expecting VAs to be experts in marketing (specifically social media) and techie skills (i.e. I’m working on improving my skills in these areas, but it does leave me a bit concerned about “being left in the dust” when it comes to my techie skills. shopping carts). Don’t play it.

Social Media 100

Social Media Training Skills Learning 100

Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 21, 2013

What you absolutely don''t want to do is work yourself into the ground doing work for clients that you don''t bill for because you''ve overcommitted in one way or another.

Skills 100

Skills Management UPS 100

Virtual Moxie

MARCH 23, 2010

In your Virtual Assistance practice, I know of no other place that chicken/egg thing shows up more than in the discussion VAs have with themselves (and the stories they tell themselves and listen to from some industry leaders trying to sell them the latest and greatest success pill) around what needs to come first—clients or hard skills.

2010 100

2010 Skills Gifts Expenses 100

Virtual Moxie

MAY 5, 2009

I'm often asked what the most requested skills are for a VA to have. Without a strong foundation, it will never matter what skills you have, because something about your weak foundation (or as I call it, the wobbly floor) will cause you to mess things up. Have credibility. Know the difference. Having trouble reading this image?

Skills 100

Skills 2009 International Facebook 100

Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

And those aren’t your only skills, are they? I imagine that in the past 20+ years you've amassed a wide range of skills that you can parlay into remote admin skills. Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. And your clients will delightedly thank you.

Confidence 100

Confidence Skills Social Media 2009 100

Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Maybe you like chasing the clients through chasing the skills. Maybe you don’t feel at all badly about doing the work of other professionals without the real skill or compensation. Maybe you like the unrealistic expectations or having clients tell you how you should run your business.

Promotion 100

Promotion Skills Training UPS 100

Virtual Moxie

APRIL 14, 2009

Those who had skills that were specific to only one group or one profession or one industry—they’re the ones who will likely have a hard time of it if that group/profession/industry tanks. If all of your skills focus in one direction, what would you do if that particular well dried up? thank you for jumping in. Rachael.Just change.

2009 100

2009 Social Media Skills AT&T 100

Virtual Moxie

JULY 3, 2011

if you're scared to take any real steps forward because you are afraid you don't have the skills to attract great clients, the fears will run you. If you're worried that you won't have enough money and that leads you to take on crappy clients. if you're fearful of standing up for yourself so you let clients run roughshod all over you.if

Skills 100

Skills UPS 100

Virtual Moxie

DECEMBER 6, 2011

At its core, it's set up to favor, or give the upper hand to, the person who has the work and it commodtizes the worker's time and skill. An RFP (Request for Proposal) is a corporate and governmental construct used to get vendors or suppliers to bid on work, vying against unseen others who are also vying for the work.

Suppliers 100

Suppliers Skills UPS Training 100

Virtual Moxie

JULY 22, 2013

Oh, and to be clear, it’s not something that’s illegal or unethical, but something that’s not a good fit for my skills, and that would make me crazy to have to do.”. Unfortunately, that’s not something I do for my clients; it’s not a good fit for my skills, and even if it were, I can’t easily make the time reliably to do that for you.

Agenda 100

Agenda Forms Home Office Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

MARCH 11, 2013

So it’s important (and I realize I’m coming at this from the client side of things, but you’ll get the drift) to me that anyone who joins my team be naturally gracious as graciousness skills can be taught, but graciousness is so much better (in my opinion) when it’s genuine.

Learning 100

Learning Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

If you'd like more info and to join in, all the details are at 30DaysofLearning.com Here's to being actively better, smarter, more skilled, etc., Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. by the end of the month! Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Learning 100

Learning AT&T Skills 2010 100

Virtual Moxie

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And, from my perspective, it''s a skill that needs to be practiced and nailed. I''ve known many Virtual Assistants who are categorically unable to make very clear and strong requests—whether for themselves, or on behalf of their clients. Sure, sure, most of us have been taught to not rock the boat or make waves.

Clothes 100

Clothes Restaurants AT&T Medical 100

Virtual Moxie

JULY 30, 2012

These are Virtual Assistants who have mad skills, and who generally are befuddled when clients don't work with them. In May, I wrote a post about letting go of the disappointment when a client chooses another VA. A related question I am sometimes asked by Virtual Assistants is why clients choose VAs other than themselves.

Skills 100

Skills UPS 100

Virtual Moxie

JUNE 29, 2010

Sure, they have some mad skills and knowledge that they know they can parlay into services or products that their market wants. And it's wonderful to use your own mad skills in service to the client in ways that make sense. Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen.

UPS 100

UPS 2010 AT&T Twitter 100

Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I’ve mulled over and over in my head as to whether this is a quality or skill, whether one is born with it or can develop it over time and with practice, and if it can be learned, how might I go about teaching it. This makes me think it’s a quality one is born with, rather than a skill one learns and develops. View an alternate.

2009 100

2009 Interviewing Skills AT&T 100

Virtual Moxie

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It keeps you from operating out of your Zone of Genius, where you act from your unique skills and strengths. Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. The people around you will tell you it’s a good place to be. Your Zone of Excellence is a seductive trap. View an alternate.

Goals 100

Goals Skills 2010 Facebook 100

Virtual Moxie

JUNE 28, 2011

Because, in truth, until you do, all of what I share here with you, anything you read in ezines from other teachers, anything peer mentors share, every skill you learn in order to impress clients, all best practicey sorts of things… all of it will be nothing but mechanics for you. Power Statements Rock.

Mentoring 100

Mentoring Learning Skills UPS 100

Virtual Moxie

MARCH 16, 2010

The world really is your proverbial oyster, and all you have to do to start mining those pearls is show up looking like you have brains and the skill to use them well--the actual version of "looking pretty snappy." Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. What Is Moxie?

2010 100

2010 AT&T Facebook Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

MARCH 9, 2010

Don’t even waste a moment of your time with anyone who even hints about incentives, and stop listening to people who tell you that there’s a holy grail of skill sets you must master. And the part about mastering a core set of skills really hits home with me as I have 2 or 3 on my list that I've been wanting to learn or get certified in.

2010 100

2010 AT&T Skills Learning 100

Virtual Moxie

MAY 7, 2012

Clients don’t want to work with me because I don’t know _ (fill in the blank with any number of skills you believe you are missing). I have ADD and I’ll just forget to use that tool. My childhood was horrible and it prevents me from __. I can’t get clients. If I don’t kill myself for my client, I’m not good enough.

Clothes 100

Clothes Goals Skills UPS 100

Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 8, 2011

you genuinely have the skills you say you have, why not demonstrate that you know how to do what you say you know how to do--by using the tools in service to your own business? Rather than leaving them scratching their heads and wondering whether you can help, either talk about the disconnect and explain it (transparency is a wondrous thing!),

Social Media 100

Social Media Facebook Twitter Phones 100

Virtual Moxie

JANUARY 25, 2010

" "Are my skills where they should be?" Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. " "What does the PC think of what I shared about myself and my business?" " "Did I say too much/too little?" " We’ve all been there. Me included.

2010 100

2010 Skills Facebook Email 100

Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This year, she’s attended/ing two high-end multi-day seminars by esteemed teachers, so she figures the increase in her skills will be worth $15 more per hour. She’s been through the Authorsmart program to help her with her niche working with best-selling authors, and she’s an AssistU Certified Professional Virtual Assistant.

Expenses 100

Expenses Retirement Phones Training 100

Virtual Moxie

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate. What Is Moxie? Its an attitude; a way of being in the world that creates immense freedom. Its what OTHER people would call "too big for your britches," but its just not. Its juuuuuuuust right!

2011 100

2011 2010 Facebook Skills 100

Virtual Moxie

MAY 31, 2010

Its where savvy, committed, smart and highly skilled meet spunky, shameless, gutsy, and brazen. Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate. What Is Moxie? Its an attitude; a way of being in the world that creates immense freedom. Its what OTHER people would call "too big for your britches," but its just not. Its juuuuuuuust right!

2010 100

2010 Facebook Interviewing Skills 100