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Just before my 31st birthday, I took a leap of faith by leaving my safe corporate job and starting my own Virtual Assistant business. With a 16 month old on my hip, I hustled and was quickly making MORE than I was at my corporate job. I believe so strongly in the power of women,…

I started my Virtual Assisting business in March of 2017 and within 4 weeks I had filled my roster and replaced my 9-5 income 🎉. Online businesses are popping up each day, and the need for Virtual Assistants will only grow as more of our world population comes online. So, you’re probably thinking “yeah that’s…

Here’s a list of things that are true if you want to start or scale an online business (and actually make money doing it): You have to create content You have to create value based content You have to create promo based content Now listen, I am not going to lie. Content creation can feel…

At least once a week I hear or read someone say “OMG the done-for-you service-provider market is so saturated, there’s not enough room for me”. And I always answer the same way. “True, the market IS saturated because the barrier-to-entry is so low and anyone can show up and start a business online in 2.2…

When I started my Virtual Assisting business almost 2 years ago I saw success FAST. Within eight days of starting the business I signed my first client. Two weeks later, I left my corporate job. Another two weeks and I had the clients (and income) to replace my 9-5 salary. Within months, I added contractors…

I don’t know a single business owner who hasn’t experienced boundary issues with their clients. You know what I’m talking about, right? You have boundary issues if you’ve experienced any of the following: Clients texting you non-stop Clients emailing you over the weekend expecting work to be done ASAP Clients expecting response times that you…

I work with online virtual business owners every day, and one of the more common ways I support them around reaching their business goals is by curtailing their shiny object syndrome (or squirrel-itis as I like to call it). Not sure what shiny object syndrome looks like or if you’ve got it? Here are a…

Look, sister. I know you want financial freedom. I ALSO know you want to knock this biz outta the park and make bank. But also also? You need to make sure your biz is sustainable long-term. Aka, you don’t want to be consistently overwhelmed or burnt out and you DO want to make sure you…

Often, when you apply for a job, respond to a pitch for hire or find yourself tagged in a post looking for recs, you need to quickly and clearly respond and set yourself apart from your competition. Essentially, you gotta make yourself look like the BEST candidate for the job (because we know you are…

As a mentor for done-for-you service providers, I see ALL the ways in which we keep ourselves stuck. And without fail MOST of the ways in which we keep ourselves stuck have to do with sales. Meaning, I see all the reasons VAs, OBMs and SMMs aren’t signing more clients and making more money in…