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With the New Year starting today, I decided to start a new month-long series to help business owners find different ways to grow their businesses. During this month, I will share different tips that will help you to not only grow your business but also manage its growth.

Some of the topics that I plan on covering this month are:

  • Cross marketing
  • Social media
  • Business management
  • Virtual support teams
  • Blogging

As I share these tips, I want to encourage you to respond with a comment about how they have helped you with your business or share additional… Read more

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Do you have an idea of what a virtual assistant is? What do you think are the hiring processes for virtual assistants? Do you know how to manage a virtual team? What are the tools that can be used to communicate and manage the virtual team?

These are a few questions that can be asked when planning to build a virtual team or in getting a virtual assistant. A Virtual assistant is an independent entrepreneur or contractor who uses technology to provide services to clients globally, in the field of accounting, legal, marketing, etc. Virtual assistants may… Read more

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As a business owner and entrepreneur, I realized that I couldn’t grow my business successfully if I didn’t have a solid support team. So I purposefully sought out Virtual Assistants (VAs) that I felt would not only be beneficial to my business but I would also be able to help them grow their business.

Recently, I was featured in an editorial column on Entrepreneur.com by Patti Simone regarding “Virtual Help for Real Entrepreneurs” about this very topic. The purpose of this article was to share how entrepreneurs were using VAs to grow their business.

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After hiring my virtual assistant (VA), I quickly realized that if I create a virtual team that I would be able to continue refining my business processes. I figured that it would a good idea to hire a team of specialist so that I could outsource to them and continue refining my business process.

As a business owner, one must keep in mind that having a virtual team in place will help you leverage your business better. Have you given any thoughts to putting a virtual team to work for you? Below is a list of areas… Read more

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Wow, I actually hired a virtual assistant (VA) to help me get things organized with my business makeover. This was a hard decision because I’ve always been the hands-on business owner and releasing control is hard. Don’t get me wrong, I can delegate when the need arises but to actually had over tasks that I’m used to doing, has been hard.

To help me determine who I should hire as my VA, I chose to ask for references from my mentor Mari Smith (@MariSmith) and she gave me 5 VA names. I immediately contacted them via Facebook… Read more