Julie’s Update

I am in the process of writing my next book and would like your help. When you set up your home office or business, what problems did you have or skills did you find hard to understand at the beginning? A good example would be, When I am out with a client and I get a sales call should I take the call.

These questions and statements are exactly what I am after. Any help and questions greatly appreciated.

I would like to thank you in advance.

Training Course for Admin Support and budding Virtual Assistants

I am so excited, I am running a Training Course for new Virtual Assistants on Saturday. Only three places left. The next course is for the partners of small businesses to help them get to grips with admin within their company. Two types of course, face to face and then a boxed course.

If you are a business owner or know a business owner, and/or office worker who has been made redundant or wants a change of job, please pass on my contact details. Julie Farmer, 0845 859 1720. if you want some help in getting you business admin under control let me know.

What a year 2012 is going to be.

My Book is Here and the next one has been started

It’s finally here, my book entitled ‘Becoming a Virtual Assistant and avoid the mistakes I made’. It’s has taken me a while to get it ready for print and for the kindle, but at last you can get a copy from me directly or from Amazon.

The book is about how to set up your own Virtual Assistant business and learn from the mistakes made by other VAs and business owners. It is a blue print to start your own VA Business.

I have already started on my next book, title yet to be decided. It will be a text book style book aimed at partners of small businesses so they can help their partner with the business. If you would like to know more please let me know or drop me a question if you have one. Naturally the book will be around best practice in running a home office.

Christmas Card Special Offer – Hand written just for you

myPA are making plans for Christmas, I know its not that far away, only 12 weeks, which means it will be here in a minute.To save you time and help you and your business get ready for Christmas, we are offering a new service called ‘Christmas Cards’.  I know not very original, but the service is.
We will: Address your Christmas Cards by hand or via address labels to your business contacts and friends Use your branded Christmas Cards if you have them or we can purchase Christmas Cards on your behalf Ensure your Christmas Cards are posted in time for the Christmas post
For more information please contact us on christmascards@mypavirtualservices.com If you would prefer not to receive any further promotional emails from myPA please let us know and we will take you off our list.

Money Monday

Its Monday tomorrow so what is the plan? How about making it a MONEY MONDAY. Check out your numbers. How much money in the bank, how much money owed to you and how much money do you have to invoice today. It’s all about the numbers.

Quickbooks Training – 1 on 1 is the only way to go

I love training and I spent 5 hours doing one on one training on Quickbooks. My favourite kind of training.

I would like to do more of this kind of stuff.

It’s so sad when your student starts of saying they don’t know anything and they don’t think they will understand anything. My student has been speaking to other trainers and they have scared her into thinking that could never understand the software.

Gutted, but book coming on and 1000 steps to. Come

What a morning. It’s been one of those that started well and then nearly kicked you in the teeth. Got an email from a prospective client. The email was sent at 3pm on Sunday.

We had our normal Monday morning meeting, finding out what we did last week. What plans and client requests we have to do this week.

I then called at 9.45 to talk to the prospective client. He had already hired someone. Gutted. We could have easily done this job. It looked fun, I’ve done the type of work before. Totally gutted.

Never mind, now looking for a cheap Graphic Designer to put the finishing touches to my book and it’s only 14.44.

Plan to do 1000 steps at the gym as well.

Monday Goal Setting – What is happening to your Quotes?

It’s Monday morning so it’s the perfect time to set up goals and achievements that you need to achieve this week.

Spending time on your most important client, your business, will ensure it’s success. Make sure your goals are there to increase your businesses bottom line.

Suggested Goal

Set up a recording system for all your quotes. Make sure you record the losses as well. Knowing why you lost a quote could be more important than winning a quote. For example, you could have been to expensive or more importantly to cheap. Call your prospect and ask them why you didn’t get the contract. Be nice, you may have only lost this job but be in line for another task.

Good luck

VA Training Course

I am so pleased to announce that I have scheduled my training course to help all new VAs set up there business. The course starts on the 12 November 2011 in Faringdon at 9.30.

For more information please contact me.

Setting up your VA Business tips

When planning your VA Business think very carefully about the type of work YOU want to do. This will dictate all your marketing and PR. There is no point in setting up your own business to do work you don’t enjoy.