Posted on May 14th, 2009 by Kathie Thomas
I saw an interesting article today titled “Take Advantage of Social Networking with a Virtual Assistant“ so of course I went and read it straight away.
I have very firm ideas about what a VA should and shouldn’t do for a client and networking is one of those things I don’t believe we should be doing.
I [...]
Filed under: Business Networking, Client Ed & Case Studies, Networking Tools | 8 Comments »
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Kathie Thomas
A recent conversation with a client set me thinking. In fact I’d had a similar discussion with another client not much earlier. They both wanted accounts set up at various social networking tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc and have everything automated (rss feed from blogs, automatic responses, etc) so that they could literally [...]
Filed under: Business Networking, Client Ed & Case Studies, Networking Tools, Technology | 5 Comments »
Posted on March 27th, 2009 by Kathie Thomas
On one of the forums I participate a member was asking how to market their VA business and get work. I joined in the conversation and highlighted the importance of networking. My response is below.
Networking is a key to developing business and a big part of it. I believe you should be networking both online [...]
Filed under: Business Networking, VA Education | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Kathie Thomas
I recently met a copywriter at a business breakfast I was speaking at and she was keen to talk to me after the event. She was looking for more ways to get clients and was wondering if I accepted copywriters into my Virtual Assistant network. I told her I would send her some suggestions that [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2009 by Kathie Thomas
Last year I wrote about two different situations where the VA community grouped together to help one of its own. One was when a VA shared on her challenges and others rallied round to help her. The other was when I, myself, was going through a family tragedy and so many once again, rallied round [...]
Filed under: Author's musings, Blogging, Business Networking, VA Industry | 5 Comments »
Posted on January 31st, 2009 by Kathie Thomas
I hope you like the series I’ve been doing on the mistakes VAs make in operating their businesses. I’ve been getting great feedback – both here at the blog and via email from various people and the list has been growing as I’ve been thinking about it when away from my office and doing other [...]
Filed under: Business Networking, Mistakes VAs make, Operating a VA Business, Twitter, VA Education | 1 Comment »
