Posts made in September, 2008

Tom Buford Shared Wonderful Fee Setting Strategies With Me Today

Posted by on Sep 27, 2008 in virtual assistant industry | 0 comments

If you missed my interview today with Tom Buford, founder of Charge What You Deserve.com you can listen to it here.  Tom gave very specific answers to my questions when I asked him about setting and raising professional fees even in a slowing economy and setting your fees too low.  He also gave some great tips on how to effectively communicate your fees with confidence. As a result of our talks over the last couple of weeks Tom actually created a program just for Virtual Assistants that is...

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Charge What You Deserve – Fee Setting

Posted by on Sep 10, 2008 in Virtual Assistance | 0 comments

Please join me as I interview Tom Buford, founder of  Charge What You Deserve.com.  Tom is an author, coach, consultant and speaker.  He shares marketing and fee-setting strategies with service professionals so that they begin to charge what they deserve and enjoy the businesses that they’ve been dreaming of.  Using his techniques, Tom’s clients have been able to double their fees and attract more clients than ever before. I invite you to send me your biggest “blocks” to...

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Recommended Client Management System

Posted by on Sep 8, 2008 in virtual assistant industry | 0 comments

I get a lot of inquiries and requests for advice from new virtual assistants who are just beginning to build their businesses so I have decided to write a series addressing some of these issues.  One of the most commonly asked questions is what client management system do I use in my practice.   As a new virtual assistant I knew that organization is easily one of the most important things that my practice had to implement to survive and grow.  I need to be able to have all of my...

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How Do You Utilize Social Networking Sites?

Posted by on Sep 7, 2008 in virtual assistant industry | 0 comments

One of the critical things any online entrepreneur or virtual assistant needs to do is to stay active on some of the social networking sites.  I get a lot of questions from virtual assistants and budding online entreprneneurs about this very topic.  There are just so many social networking sites popping up these days that you oftentimes feel like you just have to signup, take the time to build your bio and then visit every day to keep on top of things.  In my opinion, these types of...

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Just Read An Excellent Post on Twitter Search

Posted by on Sep 7, 2008 in Virtual Assistance | 0 comments

Chris Brogan posted an excellent post on how to listen for opportunities on Twitter.  Be sure to take a look and I would love to hear your comments after you have applied some of his suggestions to your twitter experience. http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-to-listen-for-opportunities-on-twitter/

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