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Networking for Virtual Assistants
Any successful virtual assistant will tell you that networking is one of the best ways to gain new clients. Some are more successful at networking than others, but do you know why? Are you one of those who unknowingly self sabotages your networking efforts? And as well as networking to gain new clients, do you network for referral partners, or joint venture partners?
The new “Networking for Virtual Assistants” online course from the VA Success Group gives you all the secrets that will turn you in to a top notch networker and begin to reap the rewards from this fun and sociable way to build your business. As with their Start Your Virtual Assistant Business and Marketing for Virtual Assistants, this is an online course so you can study at your own pace from home, and as you have lifetime access, you can refer to it again and again.
So if you want to find out:
- How do I choose a networking group?
- Should I network face to face, online (or both)?
- What information do I need to prepare beforehand?
- What do I say?
- How do I approach people?
- What marketing materials should I hand out?
- I don’t know where to start - help!
This is the course for you.
More information at: http://vasuccessgroup.co.uk/virtual-assistant-online-courses/networking-for-virtual-assistants/
Copyright 2010 by Justine Curtis
In The Spotlight
File-Sharing Made Easy
As a virtual assistant you need to share files in some way with your clients. Often you will find your clients are happy to email latest versions of documents and spreadsheets backwards and forwards and some even have a file-sharing system in place that you can have access to.
But what happens if your client doesn’t have their own systems and you will be both updating a ‘live’ file such as a contacts database or an expenses spreadsheet? How do you both have access to the same current version of the file? You can purchase file sharing software such as Microsoft’s Sharepoint, or you can use free software such as Google Docs which, not very helpfully, interferes with the formatting of some documents and limits the size and/or formats of the files you can upload.
Well now, there’s a free option that not only works brilliantly, but also has many other features including access to 30 days worth of back up copies, incase you accidentally delete or ruin a file. You can also access your files remotely when you are out of the office so there’s no longer a need to take that laptop on holiday!
For more information and an extra 250MB of space free, visit: https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQ1ODEyNDM5
Copyright 2010 by Justine Curtis
About the author
Justine Curtis is the director of her own successful virtual assistant business My Virtual Assistant http://www.my-va.com which is currently being expanded through a team of Licensees in the UK and founder of The UK Association of Virtual Assistants (UKAVA) which offers free resources and information to its subscribers – sign up at http://www.ukava.co.uk. Justine is the author of Setting Yourself Up As A Virtual Assistant and is delighted to be able to pass on the benefits of her vast experience of the VA role to aspiring and progressive virtual PAs as a co-founder of the VA Success Group. If you are thinking about starting a virtual assistant business, visit http://vasuccessgroup.co.uk
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