Tag Archives: small business owners

Creating a Communication Plan

Here’s an article published today in “The Portable Business™.” If you’d like to subscribe, go here: Excellent communication–not merely good or okay–is vitally important in your business relationships, even more so when your mode of doing business is entirely virtual. How well you communicate with prospects and clients directly impacts the trust and confidence you [...]

Still Time to Register…

There’s still room at this month’s famous VACOC Guest Expert Teleseminar so go sign up now! This month, one of our favorite experts, small business lawyer Nina Kaufman, is back to help you better understand ther various business entities and how to choose the one that’s right for your business… Are You Exposing Yourself? How [...]

Free Business Teleseminar

One of our favorite experts is back this month to give another fabulous presentation for our VACOC Month Guest Expert Teleseminar series. Nina Kaufman is an award-winning business lawyer, author, and speaker. Through both her NYC-based law practice and her legal information company, Wise Counsel Press LLC, she has spent over 15 years successfully navigating [...]

Free Teleseminar Tonight: Marketing to Attract Your Ideal Clients

This month’s VACOC Guest Expert Monthly Teleseminar is tonight and we have a wonderful speaker (as usual)… Nancy Michaels, founder of Grow Your Business Network, will be sharing some insights on marketing to attract your ideal clients. Nancy is an phenomenal speaker, author and business and marketing expert and I can’t wait for her to [...]

You're Invited to a FREE Teleseminar on May 17 How to Avoid Becoming a Commodity

My organization, the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce, sponsors a free teleseminar each month with a different guest expert talking about business and marketing issues of interest to Virtual Assistants, small business owners and independent professionals. This is my personal invitation to you to be there or be square! Here are the details: How to [...]

Gritty Business Buzz–Coming to You Weekly

 Gritty Business Buzz, the ezine my Virtual Assistant organization publishes has gone from monthly to a weekly format! Our publication is produced by our member Virtual Assistants specially for the gritty, resourceful, fiercely determined small business owners and independent professionals they serve–YOU! Each week is full of advice, tips, reviews, news and interviews on how [...]

Top 10 Reasons Your Business Isn't Growing

Lack of time (too busy working IN the business instead of ON it). Lack of focus (pulled in too many directions at once). Lack of support (spinning your wheels trying to do it all yourself). Lack of creative "space." (too stretched and stressed to plan, strategize and think creatively). Wasting resources on time and energy-busters [...]