If you seem to be overbooking yourself or dropping the ball on client projects, do you need to fire yourself? As a business owner, it is always important that you are able to meet your commitments to your client.
If you don’t, you could lose them. So if you are having problems with meeting commitments, then maybe you do need to fire yourself and hire a support team that would help you out. A support team could consist of:

Graphic designer
Virtual assistant (VA)
Web designer
Bookkeeper
Housekeeper
Accountant

There are so many more types of team members that you can add to your support team to …read more

For those who have chosen to develop a business which centers in on being a Virtual Assistant, then one of the responsibilities that you might have is managing social media efforts for your clients. Being able to manage your clients’ social media is a service that’s starting to become a necessity for business owners.
Understanding the realm of social media is important so the following helpful social media tips can help you manage your clients.

Research your clients’ industry to see which social media website are most prevalent. Then see how they fit into your clients’ social media strategy.
Use a password management …read more

Sometimes you get to a point in your small business, where you need a little extra help, but you’re not ready to hire someone full time, or even part time. Maybe you like operating your small business solo, or maybe your business cannot support a regular employee paycheck.
How can you get a little extra help when you need it? Why not give a virtual assistant a try? There are many people out there offering their services these days as virtual assistants. You can pass off some of your least favorite tasks to someone else, or jobs that you have a …read more

If you are a business owner, then one of the things that you can do to manage your social media internet marketing campaign is to hire a Virtual Assistant (VA). By hiring a Social Media VA, it can free up your time and bring order to your social media efforts.
When you start your search for a Social Media VA, there are a few specific things that you should include in your process of finding someone. Below is a simple list:

Make sure that you interview those who are interested in becoming your Social Media VA.
After interviewing them, make sure to check …read more

Whether you are leading a team at work or within an organization, having a solid support team is important. Determining who is a part of your support team can make or break your team. As you assess the people around you, there are specific questions that you need to ask yourself to finalize your support team roster.
Below are a few of the questions that you might want to ask about you and those who will be part of your support team:

What are the strengths that each person bring to the team?
What are the weaknesses that each person bring to the …read more

Did you know that you can use Twitter to interview business or industry experts? You definitely can and the interview can be used to drive traffic to your website. The interviews is also a way for the experts to “pay it forward” to business owners as they help them by sharing their knowledge via the interview.
Recently, I launched a new website where I implemented TwitInterviews.com which is an integration of Twitter and WordPress. I use this website to interview business and industry experts who share their knowledge so that business owners can learn from them.
What I’ve learned is that many …read more

Virtual Assistants are here to stay! If you are looking for a career change, a business opportunity, and you have strong administrative skills you may want to consider becoming a Virtual Assistant. According to AssistU, Virtual Assistants are micro business owners who provide administrative and personal support while working in a long-term collaborative relationship with a handful of clients.Using phone, fax, email and well as other emerging technologies. Virtual Assistant support their client’s need without ever stepping into the client’s office.
Some possible responsibilities of a Virtual Assistant may include:

Prepare correspondence, reports, and materials for publications and presentations
Coordinate travel itinerary …read more

Okay, I wouldn’t want to do anything else. I love writing, ghostwriting and coaching writers. But darn! Sometimes writing, rewriting and editing is just plain boring.
Yesterday and this morning, I went through a 20,000 word manuscript. All sorts of small things showed up, like extra spaces, words that needed to be changed and punctuation clarified. I’ve made my edits on paper with pen. If I had an assistant I’d just hand it to him, but I don’t. Of course, as I edit, I’m also adding some of the clients business rules to the document, and I’m finding some things I …read more