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...

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...

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...

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...

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/

If you are a virtual assistant who is working at a highly technical level you will undoubtedly be required to create forms for your client’s websites or even your own website.  One of the best sites that I have found for form creation is JotForm which is a web-based application that makes creating forms and inserting them into your website remarkably easy.  JotForm was developed mainly for...