Posts Tagged ‘professional development’

Pass along your best business tips

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

AZVAs the podcast begins its second season in February. In 2011, we’re keeping it real: that means that when we interview our guests, we’re asking them to share exactly how they built a successful business, and we’re asking them for specific tips for contractors who want to break into their industry. We’ll give you a [...]

Blog Hopping Tour pulls into the Loosely Speaking depot

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

A huge welcome and a big hug for Sharon Williams, president of 24-Hour Secretary! Sharon’s been hopping around the blogosphere answering industry questions and promoting this year’s Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC). Today, she’s hanging out on Loosely Speaking while I am winding down here in Phoenix with other VAs at the 2010 IVAA [...]

Getting face time with peers

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

This is the last full day of IVAA Live Summit 2010 in Phoenix. Whatever your industry, getting together for some face-to-face with your industry peers is more important than ever in this virtual world. Summit sounds like: inspiration, motivation, challenges, friendship, and clicking knitting needles and slurped lattes. Summit looks like: long lost friends hugging, [...]

Managing the growth of your VA practice

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Virtual Assistants in practice for a number of years usually reach a crossroads when their client load begins to challenge their energy and time limits. In talking with veterans in the industry, most eventually remodel their business plan taking it in one of the following directions, all of which take them out of personally providing [...]

Professional Development Opportunity for VA Entrepreneurs

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Here’s a short except from my conversation on web development and SEO with Jeannine Clontz, owner of Accurate Business Services and VABizCoach. We spoke yesterday, March 18, 2009, as a part of her Insider series for Virtual Assistants. Listen to my interview with Jeannine Clontz Jeannine’s goal in offering her Teleseminar series is to help [...]