Time Management Secrets with Viki Viertel
June 24, 2008
Time management survival is something we ALL deal with on a daily basis. It’s no easy task… especially for the entrepreneur. We juggle more things than the professional jugglers do in the circus and we’re supposed to maintain composure while doing so!
Viki Viertel, amazing entrepreneur and time management guru, has mastered this art like no other. She does what other people find impossible. She runs her life, a full career, hours on a gruelling sound stage and more…
Tomorrow, June 25, at 2PM Eastern (1PM Central, Noon Mountain and 11AM Pacific), we are going to be hosting another Virtual Assistant Mastermind teleseminar!
This teleseminar features Viki Viertel who is the founder and owner of The Business Buddha (www.thebusinessbuddha.com) and Digital Buddha Studios (www.digitalbuddhastudios.com).
Come to this teleseminar to learn:
- How to find more time in your day, week, month and year!
- The best practices you need to instil into your life today
- What to eliminate and what to keep
- And much, much more!
Join us tomorrow at 2PM Eastern for this exciting call! There are three ways to join…
(1) Purchase a seat in the teleseminar for only $24.95! (That’s amazing value for a full hour with Viki Viertel! She charges hundreds for personal coaching…)
http://virtualassistantmastermind.com/speakerseries.html
(2) Become a Speaker Series Member. For only $24.95 per month, you can get access to 2+ teleseminars with some amazing speakers including Joan Stewart, Penny C. Sansevieri, Debbie LaChusa, Alexis Martin Neely and more!
http://virtualassistantmastermind.com/memberinfo.html#speaker
(3) Become a full-time member. You can join the Virtual Assistant Mastermind and have access to the speaker series, recordings and past events, and much, much more!
http://virtualassistantmastermind.com/memberinfo.html
So, I hope you’ll come out and support Viki and the Virtual Assistant Mastermind tomorrow! Find out full details here:
http://virtualassistantmastermind.com/speakerseries.html
To your virtual success!
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Working With Clients Who Have Had Negative Experiences Prior to You
June 19, 2008
Have you ever been doing a potential client call and the client says something along the lines of, “This will be my fifth VA! My previous VA experiences weren’t so good and I’m just hoping that you’ll be better…”? If so, you aren’t alone. It happens… Clients who have had negative experiences with a virtual assistant show up at your door already peeved with their past experience and if they do, I suggest you run for the hills.
Here’s why…
Imagine that you just purchased a new pair of shoes (I’m using shoes here because I l-o-v-e shoes) and you get them home, put them on, go out dancing and the heels break - your support system trashed. Not just one but two heels break leaving you walking super awkwardly down the street to go home… Early.
Attempt two. You purchase the same pair of shoes in an attempt to give the brand the opportunity to redeem themselves. You go out, this time to your best friend’s wedding - something super important - and a half hour into the reception, the toe of the shoe falls off. (Editor’s note: not sure how that would happen but needed a variation from the heels… haha) You realize that the shoe style just can’t be passed off as a peep-toe shoe so you leave your friend’s wedding out of embarassment and sheer frustration.
So, now you’ve decided to give it ONE LAST SHOT… You’re angry, frustrated and at your wit’s end. You’ve given this brand TWO CHANCES and they failed miserably both times. Even though this new pair of shoes is completely new, it doesn’t matter. You’ve lost faith, you’ve lost hope and you certainly aren’t about to give the brand a fair shot. No way. They’ve wronged you and now they’ve got something to prove.
Stop there… Does that sound familiar?
If you’ve experienced this from the VA end, you know that regardless of what happens and what YOU do to change that person’s perspective, it won’t matter. You’ll enter a client relationship where you’re walking on egg shells and they are sitting back just waiting (and I’m sure a part of their brain is hoping) that you’ll screw up so that they can say, “Ah ha! I was right!”
If you are the client who has done this, I encourage you to re-evaluate your thoughts a bit. The thing is, every single service provider (and this goes for any industry) is different. Not all are the same and if one VA doesn’t fit, another will. It really boils down to you, your ability to overcome experiences and your ability to leave your baggage behind.
So, to my fellow virtual assistants, if you’ve heard people talk about looking for “red flags” in a potential client call, that is one. A BIG one.
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Teleseminar with Janet Barclay Today!
June 19, 2008
This afternoon, at 3PM Eastern (2PM Central, 1PM Mountain and Noon Pacific), we are going to be hosting another Virtual Assistant Mastermind teleseminar!
This teleseminar features Janet Barclay who is a Master Virtual Assistant, the Founder and General Manager of Organized Assistant, and Co-Author of “Maximizing Your Time with Microsoft Outlook 2003.”
If you are anything like me, organizing yourself and your computer can be overwhelming at first. You like at all of the electronic files you have, e-mail you’ve got and folders upon folders and you’re just not sure what to do with them.
Today, Janet is going to be covering tips and techniques to organize your e-mail and other electronic files and she’ll help you discover how your computer can enhance, rather than hinder, your productivity!
So You Think You Can Sub - Lisa Olinda’s Video Audition
June 19, 2008
If you haven’t heard or seen yet, we’ve been hosting live auditions (and auditions via telephone and video) for So You Think You Can Sub? It basically gives virtual assistants who are looking to sub-contract to high-level virtual assistants the opportunity to do so in an audition-style format.
You can check out the audition process and find out full details here: www.soyouthinkyoucansub.com.
Here is Lisa Olinda’s video audition:
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So You Think You Can Sub - Mary Havlicek’s Video Audition
June 19, 2008
If you haven’t heard or seen yet, we’ve been hosting live auditions (and auditions via telephone and video) for So You Think You Can Sub? It basically gives virtual assistants who are looking to sub-contract to high-level virtual assistants the opportunity to do so in an audition-style format.
You can check out the audition process and find out full details here: www.soyouthinkyoucansub.com.
Here is Mary Havlicek’s video audition:
Hours by Design Subcontracting Audition from Mary Havlicek on Vimeo.
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So You Think You Can Sub - Amy Courser’s Video Audition
June 19, 2008
If you haven’t heard or seen yet, we’ve been hosting live auditions (and auditions via telephone and video) for So You Think You Can Sub? It basically gives virtual assistants who are looking to sub-contract to high-level virtual assistants the opportunity to do so in an audition-style format.
You can check out the audition process and find out full details here: www.soyouthinkyoucansub.com.
Here is Amy Courser’s video audition:
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So You Think You Can Sub - Lou Bortone’s Video Audition
June 17, 2008
If you haven’t heard or seen yet, we’ve been hosting live auditions (and auditions via telephone and video) for So You Think You Can Sub? It basically gives virtual assistants who are looking to sub-contract to high-level virtual assistants the opportunity to do so in an audition-style format.
You can check out the audition process and find out full details here: www.soyouthinkyoucansub.com.
Here is Lou Bortone’s video audition:
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FREE Ask Erin Live Q & A Session Every Friday
June 6, 2008
An exciting new way to interact with me!
(FYI: This will be my only blog post on this subject unless you decide you want regular updates! :))
I’m going to be hosting an absolutely free, live Internet TV streaming Q&A Session every Friday from 1-2PM Eastern.
You can come and ask me questions about:
- Internet Marketing
- Virtual Assistance
- Blogging
- Social Networking
- Building Your Virtual Business
- Passive Revenue
- Affiliate Marketing
- And More!
You simply type your question to me and I answer it live. You’ll see and hear me give you my response. To get full details on how to get setup and to get reminders about the sessions, please send a blank e-mail to: info2071-339224@autocontactor.com. That will also automatically sign you up to get the updates.
Now, I won’t be using this time to talk about regular client work so clients… if you’re at all tempted to come and hog the floor asking questions about your projects, I won’t have it! 
I really want this to be a place where you can get advice on many areas of business from me as I do have a lot to share and I love to connect with people regularly.
So, join in on the fun. You’ll get full setup details by sending a blank e-mail to info2071-339224@autocontactor.com
See you soon!
Erin Blaskie
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A Must Do! The Free SHIFT-IT Now! Webinar with Christina Merkley
June 3, 2008
Discover Strategic Tips to SHIFT Your Life For the Better!
Are You At a Personal or Professional Crossroads?
Are You Craving More Creativity, Authenticity and Personal Fulfillment?
Are You Ready to Bust Through Your Limiting Barriers and Self-Sabotage to Finally Create a Life You Love?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the questions above, join Christina Merkley, The SHIFT-IT Coach for a FREE 75-minute webinar on Monday, June 9 @ 7PM Eastern (6PM Central, 5PM Mountain, 4PM Pacific) as she shares her best SHIFT-IT tips!
Register immediately for this information-packed 75-minute long webinar where you will learn:
- Lessons from Christina’s own successful SHIFT-IT journey from tired, depressed corporate consultant to creative, soul-satisfying livelihood as The SHIFT-IT Coach (based on a lovely island in the Pacific Northwest);
- How to appreciate yet move beyond your own personal history and life story (stop defining yourself via your past and drop old, worn out thinking, assumptions and programming);
- Tips (and a free graphic coaching tool called The Magnetism Map) for getting clear about what you really, really want in life (how to create a compelling, good-feeling Personal Vision that ignites new energy within you);
- Hints about what naturally happens when you start to focus on what do want as opposed to what you don’t (the power of carefully applied Law of Attraction knowledge);
- How to deal with the inner and outer ‘Peanut Gallery’ in your life (the resistant naysayers, critics and other saboteurs who can wreck havoc with your confidence, chutzpah, and momentum);
- The very important role that aligned and ‘feeling good’ action plays in your SHIFT-IT Process;
- The most important relationship of all in your life and how it impacts every other single thing in your experience (why you will want to cultivate this relationship before taking any other action).
Register Today: http://shift-it-coach.com/free-webinar.php
Can’t make the time of the live call? No problem! This webinar will be fully recorded. Receive the follow-up link to the video and watch as soon as its ready (but you’ll need to register in order to receive the follow up link). Plus get the complimentary 30+ page Magnetism Map booklet, so you can create your own Personal Vision!
‘See’ you on the call.
Erin
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