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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 share her expertise with you! There's still time to get in on the call so go register right this second!

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Marketing to Attract Your Ideal Clients

Presented by Nancy Michaels of Grow Your Business

DATE: Thursday, June 19, 2008 (Tonight!)
TIME: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
DURATION: 60 minutes (please call in 10 min. early)
COST: FREE!
TO REGISTER: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? This class is open to all Virtual Assistants, small/boutique business owners, solo professionals, solopreneurs and independent professionals. Invite your business buddies! If you know some folks who would like to attend, feel free to copy and paste the contents on this page, and post invitations on the forums, listservs and groups you participate in.

Marketing isn't a one-time event. It's an activity that requires a plan and consistent effort. Your business will also never move forward if you are working with anyone and everyone under the sun instead of just those clients you are meant to serve who have a need for the solution you offer.

But how do you determine who your ideal client is? What are the best ways to reach and connect with them? These questions and more will be answered at our next VACOC Guest Expert Teleseminar on Thursday, June 19, 2008, with Nancy Michaels of Grow Your Business Network.

During this one-hour teleseminar, Nancy will be sharing her steps on how to identify your ideal client prospect, and work with people who are easy to identify, work with and can help you to generate the revenue goals for your business. She is a leading authority on helping women and minority owned businesses to work with Fortune 500 companies as clients and sponsors of their work.

As a Virtual Assistant, knowing the process necessary to help your clients target this lucrative market is invaluable. In addition to addressing the importance of identifying your ideal target market, Nancy will share her secrets regarding endorsement marketing that drives results for your clients.

How to Choose a Niche That Fits YOU Like a Glove

One of the keys to creating a successful Virtual Assistant business is getting super clear and focused about what your business really is, what you do and who you do it for.

But getting that clarity is a journey. It's an ongoing process of figuring where your strengths and interests are and whose needs and profiles best fit what you are in business to offer. Most Virtual Assistants will go through several target markets in their quest toward finding just the clients they are most suited to serve.

To that end, my guest expert this month at the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce Monthly Guest Expert Teleseminar is Passions into Profit mentor Cari Vollmer. If you are a Virtual Assistant or small business owner of any kind who wants to figure out your best target market, you'll want to attend!

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Niche Clarity: How To Choose A Niche That Fits YOU Like a Glove!

Presented by Cari Vollmer of LifeOnTrack.com

WHEN:  TONIGHT! (Thursday, May 15, 2008)
TIME: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
DURATION: 60 minutes (please call in 10 min. early)
COST: FREE!
REGISTER NOW: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This class is free and open to all Virtual Assistants, small/boutique business owners, solo professionals, solopreneurs and independent professionals.

Are you resisting the idea of choosing a NICHE to focus on in your business?

Are you tired of feeling like a wallflower in your area of expertise?

Would you like to attract new clients and make more money?

Cari Vollmer, the Passions into Profit mentor and founder of LifeOnTrack.com, will teach you how to choose a NICHE that fits YOU like a glove.

Cari comes to her path of passion and profit naturally. Her parents were successful restaurateurs for more than 20 years. She helped her husband launch his own successful small business over a decade ago, and her grandmother wrote children's books back in the day when women were more apt to be in the kitchen cooking than honoring their passions. Yes, she's comes to this path of passion naturally, but if you don't, that's OK, that's what she's here for!

She knows from first-hand, in-the-trenches experience what you must know and do to launch, and then run, a successful small business that's also a reflection of your passions and divine life's purpose. It's not rocket science, and you can do it!

Choosing a niche (target market) is a major stumbling block for most solopreneurs and small business owners. In this high-content, high-value teleclass, Cari will demystify the niche-choosing process by sharing with you:

• Obstacles to Choosing Your Niche
• An Empowering New Way of Defining What a Niche Is
• 3 Ways to Discover Which Niche is Best For YOU
• Why Choosing Your Niche MAY NOT Be the Best Thing for Your Business Right Now
• What Needs to Come BEFORE Choosing Your Niche

Cari states, "If you're a small business owner you have a divine purpose to share what you know — your gifts — with others. THAT'S why it's important to know which niche you serve. Your gift is best suited to a certain group of people and finding them will transform you business."

REGISTER NOW: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm

Small Business: No Place for Sissies!

The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is hosting yet another fabulous free teleseminar this month, and it's open to all Virtual Assistants, small business owners, solopreneurs and independent professionals. Be sure an invite your business buddies to register!

SMALL BUSINESS: NO PLACE FOR SISSIES

Presented by Barbara "Don't Make Me Slap You" Grassey

Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008 (this week!)

Time: 5p PST / 6p MST / 7p CST / 8p EST

Duration:  60 minutes

Cost: FREE!

Register:  http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm

What are the conscious and subconscious acts that limit your ability to succeed in business and in life?

Barbara Grassey, author of "Don’t Make Me Slap You," will be presenting "Small Business: No Place for Sissies" at a complimentary teleseminar on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 8 pm EST. The teleseminar is being hosted by the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce.

During the teleseminar, Barbara will cover five common mistakes made by small businesses. A former stand up comic, her brash, in-your-face style wraps the hard realities of business in humor to soften the blow.

"We are the biggest stumbling blocks to our own success. I show people how to stop making excuses, and start taking charge of their lives and their businesses."

Some of the topics that will be covered in the one-hour teleseminar are:

• Signing your own permission slip
• Fear as your traveling companion (because Thelma and Louise are already taken)
• Following is for sheep
• Modeling–it's not just for anorexics anymore
• Why your clients' success depends on your success
• Controlling your end result.

Barbara preaches that you can’t be timid.

"Your clients' success is directly dependent on your success. You owe it to your clients to fully commit to your business and take the lead in your industry. You owe it to yourself to lead the life you want."

Find out if you have been limiting your own success. Join us for what is sure to be a rousing, fun-filled session! Register today at: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm

Free Teleseminar Tomorrow: 10 Ways to Communicate Confidence & Boost Credibility

The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce has another wonderful program for you this month.

This event is free and open to all small business owners and solo professionals. There's still room and still time to register...

10 Ways to Communicate Confidence and Boost Your Credibility

Presented by Lew Bayer of The Civility Group

DATE: Thursday, February 21

TIME:  5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST

DURATION:  60 minutes

COST:  FREE

IMAGINE... interacting with clients and feeling confident enough to ask for the sale every time you recognize a business opportunity.

IMAGINE... walking into a business reception or your weekly office meeting and not feeling self-conscious about approaching new people.

IMAGINE... what it would be like to have the capability to stay calm and act appropriately when the unexpected arises.

If there were 10 simple behaviors that could make you more self-assured, and help you know for certain that you could tackle any challenge that came your way, wouldn't you want to knwo what they were?

In this entertaining and informative session, Canada's "Civility in the Workplace" expert, Lew Bayer, will provide insight and practical tools that, with practice, will ensure increased self-assurance, confidence and productivity.

Regardless of what your profession is, confidence is key to effective communications, building relationships and sending a positive, lasting impression. By making a few simple adjustments and adopting a few good habits, anyone can feel more confident--and confidence boosts credibility in business.

Some of the things you will learn include:

• The four "E"s of civility;
• How civility impacts your credibility and professional relationships;
• How to shift your perspective and remember the business priority;
• How to handle yourself appropriately in mixing and networkig scenarios;
• How to get someone's attention and then keep it;
• How to speak the language of confidence--learn what words to avoid if you want to close the deal;
• How to eliminate self-defeating behaviors that undermine confidence;
• How to handle uncomfortable situations with grace and charm...

And much more! Go register now before time runs out...

Free Teleseminar: Know Your Inner Consultant: 5 Steps to Learning the Art of Intuition

You are invited! The holidays are over and our fantastic teleseminars are back on schedule. This month we host divine Intuitive Artist Jennifer Crews on January 17--be there or be square! Registration is now open.

Oh, and be sure to invite your business buddies. You can copy and paste any text you like from our registration page and post invites to the forums, listservs and groups you participate in. The more the merrier!

Know Your Inner Consultant: 5 Steps to Learning the Art of Intuition

Everyone is blessed with intuition, and with practice and dedication to learning, one can excel and strengthen this innate gift.

Learning intuition is not any different than taking art, dance or music lessons to advance in the learning of a skill. The first of these five steps is “awareness” of your inner language. Your inner language is your own source of receiving information. You have your own personalized way to receive information—your own inner consultant.

Learn more as well as all five steps in how to master this invisible intelligence, and strengthen your intuition in business and in all areas of your life.

DATE:  Thursday, January 17, 2008

TIME:  5p PST / 6p MST / 7p CST / 8p EST

DURATION:  60 minutes (call in 10 minutes early to make sure you have a spot)

COST:  FREE!

MORE INFO/REGISTER HERE: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm

Break Out of Employee Mindset!

(Feel free to copy and paste this information to your blogs, and any business listservs and forums you participate in--everyone is welcome to attend)

If you're a new business owner, it's a safe bet that you suffer from "employee mindset." That's the condition where you go about your business as if you were still an employee, thinking clients are your bosses and call all the shots in your business--completely ignoring your own needs and abdicating leadership in your own business. Not a happy or successful professional does that make.

If you want to break out of this defeating trap, you'll definitely want to attend this month's free teleseminar that my Virtual Assistant association is hosting. Read on for details...

Break Out of the Employee Mindset

DATE: Thursday, November 15, 2007
TIME: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
DURATION: 60 minutes (please call in 10 min. early)
COST: FREE!

This teleseminar is open to all Virtual Assistants and business owners.

"The mindset is everything; if an entrepreneur thinks wrongs, the business won't succeed," says Suzanne Mulvehill, founder of the Emotional Endurance® Institute and author of "Employee to Entrepreneur: A Mind, Body and Spirit Transition."

If you find yourself still thinking and acting like an employee, even though you are running your own business, you don't want to miss this event. "Thoughts like 'Am I going to make it?' and 'I don't think I can do this anymore,' have to go," says Mulvehill.

New thoughts like "I'm giving it my all, no matter what," and "If I'm making mistakes, I'm making progress" need to be come automatic and be programmed into the entrepreneurial mind so success can flow.

Break out of your employee mindset, and increase your business success rate immediately! This will teleseminar will help you:

• Learn the secrets to change your employee thoughts into entrepreneurial thoughts;
• Learn strategies for having your thoughts work for you vs. against you;
• Understand the 7 employee mindset shifts that must take place in order to embrace entrepreneurial success.

And much more!

Get more info and register at:  http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleclass-registration.htm

Free Teleseminar: The Top 10 Mistakes That Are Killing Your Brand

Each month my Virtual Assistant association hosts a terrific, no-cost business teleseminar for Virtual Assistants and other business owners, and this month's event will be no exception. Our teleseminars have been exceeding capacity so you'll want to be sure and register early:

The Top 10 Mistakes That Are Killing Your Brand

Presented by branding expert Rob Frankel

DATE:  Thursday, October 18, 2007

TIME:  5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST

LENGTH:  1 hours (call in 10 min. early)

COST:  FREE!

REGISTER HERE

This class is open to all Virtual Assistants and business owners. Be sure to tell your colleagues and clients.

"Branding is not about getting your prospects to choose you over your competition; it's about getting your prospects to see you as the only solution to their problem." ™ --Rob Frankel

Branding is a lot more than just a name and a logo. It's how users and prospects are turned into evangelists for your business. But even more important about what you know about branding is what you don't know. It's costing you real business and real dollars. Branding expert Rob Frankel will be telling you--yes, you-- the 10 ways you are currently killing your brand. He'll also tell you how to fix every one of them.

Join us on Thursday, October 18, for a special hour with Rob Frankel, author of the groundbreaking bestseller, "Revenge of Brand X: How to Build a Big Time Brand on the Web or Anywhere Else." Rob Frankel has been called "the best branding expert on the planet," advising, consulting and speaking to Fortune 500 companies, funded start-ups and major media such as CBS, CNBC, ABC, NBC, FOX, WSJ, NYT, LAT and many more.

Branding is relevant to every business, and to every part of your business. Rob is the only branding expert who can show you how creating and implementing brand strategy directly increases your bottom line revenues--and profitability. Be sure to catch a spot at what is sure to be one of our most fascinating, eye-opening events.

Free Teleseminar: The Five Strategies to Earning Your Worth

My Virtual Assistant association is hosting yet another fantastic teleseminar... this month the focus is on "Earning Your Worth" for women business owners with Mikelann Valterra, founder of the Women's Earning Institute, and you're invited!

The Five Strategies for Earning Your Worth

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007

Time: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST

Duration: 60 minutes

Cost: FREE!

To Register: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleclass-registration.htm

Women business owners often find themselves struggling against an "internal income ceiling." In this powerful teleseminar, Valterra explores the psychology of why even successful women undersell themselves, and what to do about it.

From having lower pay expectations than other people, to difficulty in asking for what they truly want, women who "underearn" deal with complex emotional issues around making money. Participants will elarn five crucial skills to earning what they are really worth:

• How women can make it easier to ask for what they want;
• How and why women underprice themselves and what to do about it;
• How to conquer the "Good Girl Syndrome;"
• How women can get in touch with "resentment" to make more money;

And much more... We had record attendance last month so be sure and reserve your "seat" today!

June 21 - Free Teleseminar on Intellectual Property for Small Business Owners

Hey, I hope you can join us for this month's free guest expert teleseminar. Intellectual property is a topic of vital importance for all business owners, not just Virtual Assistants. Here's the info...

You'd Protect a Human Child; Why Not a "Brain Child?" Intellectual Property for Solopreneurs

Presented by Nina Kaufman, Esq., of Wise Counsel Press

DATE: Thursday, June 21, 2007
TIME: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
LENGTH: 60 minutes (please call in 10 min. early)
COST: FREE!

This class is open to all Virtual Assistants, independent service providers and small business owners. Feel free to invite your colleagues and clients.

Do you know the difference between a trademark, a copyright, and a domain name--and the rights each one entitles you to?

Do you want to avoid messy (and expensive) disputes with other business owners?

Want to know how to protect your valuable intellectual capital so that you're the one to profit from it?

Just as human children need our protection, our "brain children"--or intellectual property--also need our protection. Unfortunately, solo professionals often don't realize (before it's too late) that 1) they had protectable intellectual property, and 2) what they could have done to protect it. Given the fast pace at which information flies in the Digital Age, forethought and intellectual property planning is absolutely necessary.

Join me to learn how you can identify your "brain children" and protect yourself economically. A few of the scenarios that we'll cover include:

• What's the difference between a copyright, a trademark, and a domain name?
• Can I get a trademark once I have a domain name? And what if someone tries to get a trademark using my business name?
• What if my articles appear on someone else's website (or blog) without permission?
• Who owns the program that I collaborated on with someone else?
• Can I use ideas in my business that I generated for a client?

And much more!

Free gveaways will be provided to four lucky call participants, so be sure to register today to reserve your spot!

Register Now:  http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleclass-registration.htm

Teeny Bit More Room at the Teleseminar Tonight!

My organization, the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce has a fantastic turnout for today's free teleseminar with marketing consultant Jim Logan. We've got a teeny bit more room so there's still time for you to register if you haven't already.

Here are the details:

How to Insulate Yourself from Your Competition, Protect the Price of Your Services and Avoid Becoming a Commodity

Presented by Jim Logan, Marketing Consultant

DATE: Thursday, May 17, 2007
TIME: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
LENGTH: 60 minutes (please call in 10 min. early)
COST: FREE!

This class is open to all Virtual Assistants and Independent Service Providers. Feel free to invite your colleagues and clients.